You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
4Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
PermissionsArea: what it touches
New FeaturesKind: in v2.1.246,
What probably matters to youSection of the release
What
The trust-this-directory prompt was rewritten and now has a second form used when you /cd into a directory whose own settings want to grant project permission rules or extra directories. Its title is "Now in a new directory:", and the buttons read "Yes, trust it and apply them" / "No, keep them off". Both forms now ignore a confirm or cancel that arrives within a short window of the dialog appearing, so an Enter or Esc already in flight cannot answer it for you.
Details
The stricter form is chosen by the caller, not by a flag or setting; the /cd flow requests it when project grants are gated.
Its body explains that the directory's settings declare project permission rules and/or additional directories that apply only on explicit trust, even though the directory is currently trusted via a parent.
The keypress guard applies to both confirm and cancel.
Evidence
Its settings declare project permission rules and/or additional directories. They apply only if you trust this directory explicitly (it is trusted through a parent directory so far).
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
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 sinceAnthropic'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`changelogsee the edit
How sure we are
Two sources agreeTwo things we can check say the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agreesAnthropic's documentation has since written up /cd, on Claude Code changelog.
Anthropic's release notes agreeImproved /cd: the new directory's project settings, hooks, .mcp.json servers (behind the usual approval prompt), skills, and agents now take…
