Unclear It is not clear whether Claude Code already enforced these rules this way before, or whether the behaviour itself changed in this release.
What
These changes are to managed settings that administrators set for their organisation's desktop deployments.
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builtinToolPolicy, a bareBashkey now also governs thePowerShelltool. Scoped keys such asBash(…)do not. Disabling Bash in the built-in tool settings now disables PowerShell as well, where before only Bash and WebFetch were mapped this way. autoModeEnabledchanged meaning. Auto mode lets Claude act without asking permission for each step. Left unset, Auto mode is now offered in the Code tab and new Code sessions start in it. Cowork gets it only when the key istrue, andfalseremoves it from both. Before, it defaulted to off and covered both selectors. The default is now display-only, with a separate fail-closed value of false.- The chat and Cowork surfaces are now worked out by a helper called
surfacesOf. allowedWorkspaceFoldersnow treats an empty list as written on purpose: an empty list allows no folder at all, while leaving it unset leaves access unrestricted.
Why
An admin who blocked Bash expecting shell access to be off now also blocks PowerShell. Deployments that never set autoModeEnabled will find Code sessions starting in Auto mode unless the admin sets it to false. An empty folder list now locks folder access down rather than leaving it open.
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It is not clear whether Claude Code already enforced these rules this way before, or whether the behaviour itself changed in this release.