What probably matters to youSection of the release
What
CLAUDE_CODE_TRANSCRIPT_LOCAL_GC turns on local garbage collection of transcripts, meaning automatic clean-up of the saved conversation records Claude Code keeps on your machine. This environment variable can now be supplied through managed policy settings, the settings an organization's administrator deploys to everyone's machines.
When neither the variable nor a remote switch turns it on, the clean-up is off. Setting the variable overrides that.
Why
Administrators can turn on transcript clean-up for their whole organization from policy instead of asking each person to set the variable.
Nothing here resolved what this flag was doing on this version, so nothing here should be read as on or off.
This account: no value returned · anonymous baseline: no value returned · compiled default in v2.1.287: off
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.
Something disagreesSomething we can check disagrees with this entry, or the writer said they could not settle it.
The writer flagged doubtAnother condition applies when the variable comes from policy, and it is not clear what that condition is or exactly what the clean-up…
