permissions.additionalDirectories
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.
What it is
Give Claude file access to [directories outside the current one](/docs/en/permissions#working-directories)
Anthropic's own wording. Read off Claude Code settings reference, captured 2026-08-28.
Presence across releases
The 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.
Changelog entries naming it
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v2.1.246Permission rules and extra directories read one consistent settings snapshot
Permission rules and extra directories are collected from one settings snapshot, avoiding inconsistent reads.
named in this entry
Documentation pages
- Claude Code settings reference reference table Claude Code CLI
- CLI reference mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Configure permissions mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Extend Claude with skills mentions it Claude Code CLI
A reference table page is one whose own table defines this name, and it is where the description above came from. A page that mentions it carries the name somewhere in its text and may say nothing about it at all. Every page carrying it.
Names beside it
Every settings key in the inventory starting permissions, up to twelve of them.
permissionsSet allow, ask, and deny rules and the starting [permission mode](/docs/en/permission-modes) 2.1.138
permissions.defaultModeSet the [permission mode](/docs/en/permission-modes#which-mode-a-session-starts-in) new sessions start in never mined
permissions.disableAutoModeSet disableAutoMode to "disable" to stop Claude Code ever falling back to auto permission mode. 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.