What
If a cloud environment is recreated mid-session, a recovery path re-fetches the forwarded settings and merges only the deny and ask permission rules back into the local settings file. CLAUDE.md, preferences and allow rules are deliberately not restored.
Details
- On success the user sees a notice beginning "Restored " together with the caveat that the other content is not restored in this environment.
- On failure a warning names one of ten reasons: ready_unreadable, rules_unverifiable, settings_refused, auth_failed, pack_absent, pack_unreadable, generation_mismatch, request_failed, settings_unusable, nothing_applied.
- If the forwarding feature is off, recovery stops with the outcome gate_closed or lane_unavailable.
Evidence
the deny and ask rules your machine sent are not restored here
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.