blockFileToolReadsOutsideWorkingDirectories
A Claude Code settings key, read out of the shipped bundle. No mined inventory carries it: everything below comes from what this site has written about it.
A new blockFileToolReadsOutsideWorkingDirectories option appears and is removed along with similar options when permissions are prepared for remote runs
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.323.
In the changelogs
3Releases whose published page names blockFileToolReadsOutsideWorkingDirectories.
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v2.1.323
New option to block file reads outside your working folders
A new
blockFileToolReadsOutsideWorkingDirectoriesoption appears and is removed along with similar options when permissions are prepared for remote runsnamed in this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.323
SDK apps get clearer settings errors, more permission details and
advisorModelSDK apps now get an error when applying flag settings fails, can read permission details, and can set
advisorModelfound in this entry's text
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v2.1.323
/add-dir warns when file tools will still refuse the added folder
With
blockFileToolReadsOutsideWorkingDirectoriesset,/add-dirnow notes that file tools only use the folders the session started withnamed in this entry, found in this entry's text
First cited
1The earliest release whose published evidence quoted blockFileToolReadsOutsideWorkingDirectories was v2.1.323, 12 Nov 2026. That is the oldest release this project wrote about it, so it is a floor on the name's age and not the release that introduced it. It is not a presence reading: which builds carried the name is the table below.
Presence across releases
0The miner has never read a build containing this name. It is here because a changelog entry of ours names it, which is evidence that it existed and not evidence of which releases carried it. The inventory starts at v2.1.138 and everything older than that was never mined.
Read out of the published npm bundle release by release, and out of Anthropic's own documentation as this site captured it. Nothing on this page is a description anybody here wrote about what the settings key does. All settings keys.