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Claude Code v2.1.238

Config watching can revert to polling the file

Under the hood
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Configuration

If the storage layer disappears mid-session, config watching falls back to polling ~/.claude.json.

~/.claude.json
What

If the storage layer serving global config goes away mid-session, Claude Code now drops its subscription and cached version and goes back to polling ~/.claude.json for changes.

Details
  • Config writes short-circuit to an in-memory project config when the test-mode check is on.
Evidence

The startup storage backend was withdrawn; watching ~/.claude.json with the fs.watchFile poll again

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

Related

Other releases about the same thing. Found by shared names or similar wording; neither means one caused the other.

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