What
If a reported settings problem is in the file you passed with --settings, the generated fix-it prompt now says that file is read only at startup, so you are told the fix lands on your next session rather than immediately.
Evidence
That file is read once at startup, so after fixing it, tell me the fix takes effect the next time I start a session
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
Names in the bundle--settings
The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.
Confirmed since
Anthropic's documentation has since written up --settings, on CLI reference.
| `claude agents` | Open [agent view](/docs/en/agent-view) to monitor and dispatch parallel background sessions. Use `--cwd <path>` to show only sessions started under that directory, or `--json` to print active sessions as a JSON array fo…cli-reference see the edit
One source agreesOne thing we can check says the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agrees
Anthropic's documentation has since written up --settings, on CLI reference.