Unclear What the switch changes about startup, beyond skipping the early fetch of managed settings, is not stated.
Managed settings are settings that an organization's administrator sets for everyone using Claude Code. At startup Claude Code now reads a server-controlled switch. When the switch is on, and the session does not prepare itself, Claude Code passes a different value into its startup step and does not fetch managed settings ahead of time. Before, that startup step always ran the same way. The switch is off unless it is turned on remotely.
There is also a message for when managed settings need you to approve them but Claude Code cannot ask: "Your organization's managed settings need your approval, which couldn't be asked for here."
This affects when your organization's managed settings are loaded at startup. If you see the approval message, your organization's settings are waiting for your approval in a place where Claude Code cannot show the question.
tengu_quizzical_giraffe Not enough to sayNothing 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 v2.1.292: 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.
tengu_playful_panda Not enough to sayNothing 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 v2.1.292: on
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.
tengu_level_wren Not enough to sayNothing 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 v2.1.292: on
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.
tengu_zany_flask Not enough to sayNothing 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 v2.1.292: 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.
Read once, for one account on one subscription tier, against v2.1.292. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you
What the switch changes about startup, beyond skipping the early fetch of managed settings, is not stated.
New in this build: tengu_quizzical_giraffe