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Claude Code v2.1.246

Startup drops a storage backend built for a different CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR

You'll notice
Useful3 Signal3
Configuration

Startup warns and skips a storage backend built against a different CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR.

CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR
What

Startup now verifies that CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR still names the config home the v5 storage backend was created against. If it does not, Claude Code warns and loads your config without that backend for this run, instead of reading from the wrong config home.

Details
  • Only reachable when the v5 storage backend is in use.
  • The same startup path now also primes stored-login credentials as a step after the fast-path credential prime.
Evidence

where the v5 storage backend was built at start-up; init() loads its config without it

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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