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Reference Settings keys
One name

permissions.blockReadsOutsideWorkingDirectories

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.

Familysettings keySettings keys
Builds0of the 122 on this box
First seen — never in a mined build
Last seen — never in a mined build
Statusnever minedas of v2.1.278

What it is

Make the file tools refuse reads outside the [working directories](/docs/en/permissions#working-directories) in every permission mode

Anthropic's own wording. Read off All settings, captured 2026-09-22.

Presence across releases

0

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.

First cited

6

The earliest release whose published evidence quoted permissions.blockReadsOutsideWorkingDirectories was v2.1.257, 1 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 above.

ReleaseDateThe span that was quoted
v2.1.2571 Sep 2026Reads outside the working directories are blocked (permissions.blockReadsOutsideWorkingDirectories). Add the directory with /add-dir, or remove that setting.
v2.1.2571 Sep 2026permissions.blockReadsOutsideWorkingDirectories
v2.1.2571 Sep 2026the permissions.blockReadsOutsideWorkingDirectories setting blocks reads outside the working directories. Ask the user to add the directory with /add-dir, or to remove that setting.
v2.1.2571 Sep 2026which the read block does not allow without asking (permissions.blockReadsOutsideWorkingDirectories)
v2.1.26911 Sep 2026The user chose to block reads outside the working directories (permissions.blockReadsOutsideWorkingDirectories). Ask the user to add the directory with /add-dir
v2.1.27517 Sep 2026outside_reads_blocked' (permissions.blockReadsOutsideWorkingDirectories refused the path)

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) v2.1.138 permissions.additionalDirectoriesGive Claude file access to [directories outside the current one](/docs/en/permissions#working-directories) never mined permissions.allowApprove listed [tool uses](/docs/en/permissions#permission-rule-syntax) without a prompt never mined 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.