What
If your choices about a project's MCP servers cannot be written after moving directories, the confirmation now names the file to check and warns you will be asked again next time.
Details
- The failure is reported as
mcp_approval_persist_failedfrom the project MCP approval dialog. - When a settings file has errors, project MCP servers are left pending instead of being treated as approved.
Evidence
One or more of your MCP server choices could not be saved (check permissions on .claude/settings.local.json)
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
Names in the bundle/cd
The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.
Confirmed since
Anthropic's documentation has since written up /cd, on Claude Code changelog.
* Fixed `/reload-skills` reporting a skill count that disagreed with the slash menu after `/cd`changelog see the edit
Two sources agreeTwo things we can check say the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agrees
Anthropic's documentation has since written up /cd, on Claude Code changelog.
Anthropic's release notes agree
Improved /cd: the new directory's project settings, hooks, .mcp.json servers (behind the usual approval prompt), skills, and agents now take…