You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
MemoryArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.232,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
Walking your CLAUDE.md memory files and rules directories now inspects each entry and skips symlinks, and files with more than one hard link, whose real path lands outside the project, unless external includes are allowed.
Details
For user-scope files, external includes are only honoured when the session entrypoint is not a local agent.
Entries are checked without following the link, so the link target is never read to make the decision.
Evidence
isSymbolicLink()
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
