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Claude Code Guards Your Email. Base64 Walks Right Past.

Claude Code 2.1.317 (npm 2026-11-02 23:57 UTC) adds a check that asks before a web or shell tool call sends the signed-in account's email address to the network. Hands-on: the check is a built-in plugin, cc-plugin-privacy (cc-plugin-privacy@builtin, absent from the 2.1.316 binary, not shown by claude plugin list, shown by claude plugin details), registered on tool.check for WebBrowser, WebFetch, WebSearch, Bash, Monitor, PowerShell and Tmux; it JSON-serialises the tool input, lowercases it, appends a once percent-decoded copy, looks for the session.identity() email, blanks it, and for the shell tools asks only if the rest matches /\b(curl|wget|https?|httpie|xh|nc|ncat|socat|telnet|ssh|scp|sftp|rsync|ftp|lftp|rclone|iwr|irm|invoke-webrequest|invoke-restmethod)\b/; it runs after the normal permission decision and turns an allow into an ask. Twenty headless Haiku 5.5 runs ($0.12) against a 127.0.0.1 capture server: a literal, upper-cased or %40-encoded address next to curl, a python3 urllib call with an http URL, a git push with the address in the URL and a WebFetch were all asked (denied headless); a different address, CLAUDE_CODE_USER_EMAIL, echo, git log --author and the Write tool passed; $(cat email.txt), base64, %2540 and a raw Python socket passed and the server received the address; enabledPlugins false via --settings switched it off, the same key in an untrusted repo's .claude/settings.json did not. The same build adds an unlisted sentence to the userEmail system prompt about sites that ask for a contact email in the User-Agent. Feature flag tengu_wise_newt defaults on; API-key sessions have no identity email so the check never fires (from the code, not run).