{"version":"2.1.293","anchor":"remote-settings-sync-reports-credential-withheld-files","canonical_anchor":"remote-settings-sync-reports-credential-withheld-files","heading":"Settings sync holds back credential-looking content and says so","tier":"notice","area":"Settings Sync","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.293\/e\/remote-settings-sync-reports-credential-withheld-files","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.293","markdown":"### Settings sync holds back credential-looking content and says so\n\nRemote settings sync now keeps credential-looking files and rules on this machine, reports them, and logs dropped credential rules as warnings\n\n**Unclear.** Whether this screening is always on is not known, so it is unclear whether every user's sync holds these files back.\n\n**What**\n\nWhen settings are synced to a remote session, Claude Code now holds back content that looks like it contains a credential, such as a password or access key, and reports what it held back.\n\n- The sync status line can now say that some files were kept on this machine because they look like they hold a credential.\n\n- Settings summaries add `credentialTextsWithheld`, `settingsKeysWithheld` and `droppedRules` counts.\n\n- If any credential-restriction rules were dropped, the summary is logged at level `warning` instead of `debug`. Before, a warning was used only for dropped rules or for settings that could not be read, were rejected or were too large.\n\n- The sync payload now includes `refiltered_credentials` and `refiltered_credential_restrictions` next to `refiltered_keys`.\n\n- The managed-settings summary in usage reporting gains `credential_texts_withheld`, `rules_dropped_credential`, `restrictions_dropped_credential`, `withheld_credential` and `claude_md_withheld_credential`.\n\n**Why**\n\nIf something you expected in a remote session is missing, the status line and the logs now tell you it was held back because it looked like a credential, rather than leaving it unexplained.\n\n- Area: Settings Sync\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}