{"version":"2.1.285","anchor":"env-bearer-fallback-for-policy-limits-and-remote-settings-au","canonical_anchor":"env-bearer-fallback-for-policy-limits-and-remote-settings-au","heading":"Policy limits and remote settings can use a token from the environment","tier":"soon","area":"Managed Settings","url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.285\/e\/env-bearer-fallback-for-policy-limits-and-remote-settings-au","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.285","markdown":"### Policy limits and remote settings can use a token from the environment\n\nWith no API key, Claude Code can now fall back to a bearer token from the environment when fetching policy limits and remote settings\n\n**Unclear.** Which environment variable supplies the token and how the remote switch decides to skip the fallback are not settled.\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code fetches policy limits and remote settings from Anthropic, and these requests need a credential. Before, when there was no sign-in token or API key, the request stopped with \"No API key available\". Now it can fall back to a bearer token (a credential sent along with each request) taken from the environment.\n\nThe fallback applies only under certain conditions, including not using `ANTHROPIC_UNIX_SOCKET`. A remotely controlled switch can skip it.\n\n**Why**\n\nSetups that only provide a token, with no API key, can now reach policy limits, which affects whether an organization's managed policies are applied.\n\n- Flag `tengu_copper_kite`: Off in both readings (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.285; this account: off, anonymous baseline: off, compiled default: not a boolean we can read) These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.\n- Flag `tengu_steady_sunbeam`: Off in both readings (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.285; this account: off, anonymous baseline: off, compiled default: not a boolean we can read) These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.\n- Area: Managed Settings\n- Tier: Nothing to try yet\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Present in the build but not switched on"}