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Project settings are skipped when they resolve to the same file as user settings, so nothing is counted twice.
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What
The user-settings read behind raw key-presence checks is now a single helper returning a tagged result (unreadable, absent, oversize, empty, non-object, object) instead of duplicated inline parsing. Project settings are skipped when the project and user settings paths resolve to the same file, so one file is no longer counted twice.
Evidence
rawSettingsKeyPresence: v5 user-settings read failed:
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.