You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Managed SettingsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.323,
ImprovementsSection of the release
Unclear It is not clear which on/off settings are carried over or what the host feature layer can set.
What
Managed settings are settings an organization sets for the people who use Claude Code. Claude Code combines them from several layers. This now changes in three ways:
A separate host feature layer now sits alongside the existing host model layer.
Some on/off settings are now carried over from the level above.
The reader for the managed-settings.d folder now keeps track of which files are in the folder from one read to the next.
Why
These changes affect how managed settings apply in organizations that use them.
How sure we are
Something disagreesSomething we can check disagrees with this entry, or the writer said they could not settle it.
The writer flagged doubtIt is not clear which on/off settings are carried over or what the host feature layer can set.
Anthropic's release notes agreeFixed managed settings (managed-settings.json, managed-settings.d) sometimes being missed at start-up while another program was rewriting…
