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Claude Code v2.1.293 ·

Managed configuration: clientSecretHelper must print JSON, OIDC sign-in, session retention and desktop-only fields

The MCP clientSecretHelper must now print a JSON object, managed config adds OIDC sign-in and session retention, and Workspace becomes Capabilities

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Unclear Whether Claude Code actually rejects a helper that prints a bare secret is not known.

What

Managed configuration is the set of settings an administrator defines for an organisation's Claude apps. Its definitions and settings page changed in several places.

  • clientSecretHelper, a program that hands an MCP server's OAuth client secret to Claude Code, is now described as having to print a JSON object with a single clientSecret key and exit with status 0 within 30 seconds. Any other output is rejected and stops the server from connecting. Before, it was described as printing the secret on its own.
  • clientSecret is now trimmed, and when settings are redacted it is shown as present or absent rather than dropped.
  • A new "Session retention" group appears under limits.
  • A new credential kind, "Identity provider sign-in (OIDC)" (external-idp), is added, and the gateway kind accepts a GATEWAY_INTERACTIVE_WITH_IDP path.
  • Many fields, including several Bedrock, Vertex and extension fields, gain executionTarget: "desktop".
  • The settings page section Workspace is renamed Capabilities.
  • New shared exports include isCoworkSurfaceEnabled, autoModeSurfaces, retiredFlatKeyEffect, keepsAuthoredEmptyList, PROVIDER_SELECTOR_ENV_FLAGS, releasedHybridCredentialKinds and flatKeysForExecutionTarget.
  • The settings screen opened when a slash command runs with no arguments now receives a manualDialog value.

Why

Administrators with a clientSecretHelper that prints only the bare secret should change it to print the JSON form, since other output is described as rejected. Organisations can also find OIDC sign-in for gateways and session retention controls in managed configuration.

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