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On Windows, Claude Code can now spot Cygwin symlinks and .lnk shortcuts when listing folders.
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What
The filesystem shim can now recognise Cygwin-style symlink files and Windows .lnk shortcuts by their leading bytes, plus a name pattern for .lnk and .exe pairs, when classifying directory entries on Windows.
Evidence
!<symlink>
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
Related
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