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Public story · 2026-08-17 · high
The opt-in forward_user_identity flag sends signed-in headers through Anthropic upstreams, fixing gateways where every request looked identical.
Why now: The Claude Code changelog for release 2.1.233 is covered in the August 17, 2026 briefing.
Claude Code's 2.1.233 release added forward_user_identity, an opt-in gateway setting that sends a signed-in user's identity to Anthropic upstreams as request headers, per the Claude Code changelog.
The setting targets teams running Claude Code behind their own apps gateway, where a proxy sits between developers and Anthropic. Before this release, every request through that proxy looked the same, so nobody knew which developer generated which bill. For companies watching AI spend closely, that blind spot made it hard to enforce per-team budgets or spot a single account driving costs.
Turning on forward_user_identity gives the proxy something to key off. It's off by default, so nothing changes until an admin flips it on.
The same release also improved gateway error handling. A 400 or 413 from Vertex, Foundry, or Claude Platform on AWS now shows the upstream's actual error text instead of a generic wrapper. A rejected request finally says why it failed.
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