{"version":"2.1.285","anchor":"workflows-kill-switch-claude-code-disable-workflows-and-dis","canonical_anchor":"workflows-kill-switch-claude-code-disable-workflows-and-dis","heading":"Workflows off switch now enforced from managed settings, with clearer limits","tier":"use","area":"Managed Settings","url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.285\/e\/workflows-kill-switch-claude-code-disable-workflows-and-dis","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.285","markdown":"### Workflows off switch now enforced from managed settings, with clearer limits\n\nAdmins can turn workflows off through managed settings with disableWorkflows or CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_WORKFLOWS; cloud Code Review and \/ultrareview are not stopped\n\n**Unclear.** It is not clear which wins when the environment variable, the setting and the organization's own policy disagree.\n\n**What**\n\nWorkflows are Claude Code's multi-step automated runs. Managed settings are settings an administrator puts on a machine that users cannot override. Claude Code now checks managed settings for `disableWorkflows`, or for `CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_WORKFLOWS` in their `env` block, and refuses to start a workflow when either is set.\n\n- Refusals now say why. One message covers workflows turned off by the machine's administrator, for example \"Code review did not run: workflows are turned off in this machine's managed settings\". Another covers managed settings that could not be read.\n\n- The setting's description now reads \"Disable the Workflows feature.\" It adds that Code Review and `\/ultrareview` run in the cloud and are not stopped by it.\n\n- The policy check now also takes into account where the session's event came from. It can skip resuming a launch that needs that information.\n\n**Why**\n\nAdministrators get a central way to switch workflows off, and users get a message explaining why a launch was refused. Admins should know the limit: cloud-run Code Review and `\/ultrareview` are not covered by this switch.\n\n- Area: Managed Settings\n- Tier: Use it now\n- Useful: 4\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5"}