directory_binding_unreadable
A Claude Code settings key, read out of the shipped bundle. It was in the build from v2.1.301 and was gone by v2.1.302.
Plugin updates have five new directory-related failure codes, and an update now fails with directory_commit_mismatch when a new check rejects it
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.281.
In the changelogs
4Releases whose published page names directory_binding_unreadable.
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v2.1.287
Plugin uninstall and update check the Anthropic Directory more strictly
Removing or updating plugins from the Anthropic Directory now runs stricter checks, gives specific failure reasons, and can be turned off by admins
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.287
Plugins from the plugin directory are checked against the reviewed version
Directory plugin installs must now match the reviewed commit and recorded repository, or Claude Code refuses them
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.283
Plugin errors about bad IDs or unreadable install records are classed as validation
Four plugin failure types, such as an invalid plugin ID, are now reported as validation errors in Claude Code's error reports
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.281
Plugin updates gain directory-binding failure codes
Plugin updates have five new directory-related failure codes, and an update now fails with
directory_commit_mismatchwhen a new check rejects itfound in this entry's text
First cited
1The earliest release whose published evidence quoted directory_binding_unreadable was v2.1.283, 25 Sep 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
2Build by build
8One row per release since the first build this name was read out of. Absent means the build was read and the name was not in it, never mined means no bundle for that release was ever archived, and a declared type or a default is only ever what that release's own bundle stated.
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.