{"version":"2.1.246","anchor":"rules-folders-are-walked-through-the-storage-backend","canonical_anchor":"rules-folders-are-walked-through-the-storage-backend","heading":"Rules folders are walked through the storage backend","tier":"internal","area":"Internals","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.246\/e\/rules-folders-are-walked-through-the-storage-backend","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.246","markdown":"### Rules folders are walked through the storage backend\n\nRules folders are inspected through the storage backend, falling back to plain file checks.\n\n**What**\n\nWalking the Managed, User and workspace rules folders now asks the storage backend whether each entry is a symlink and what kind it is, rather than stating the filesystem directly. An unrecognized failure code is logged and falls back to a direct lstat\/stat, so behaviour is unchanged without the storage backend enabled.\n\n**Evidence**\n\n`claudemd: the storage backend could not say whether the ${n} rules folder is a symlink`\n\n- Area: Internals\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5"}