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Claude Code v2.1.251 ·

Publish refuses hard-linked sources in evaluation runs

In confined evaluation runs, publishing refuses any source file with hard links.

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What

With the confined-evaluation variable set, the publish tool checks the main file path and every entry in its file list for hard links and refuses to publish any of them, as it does for sources outside the run's readable set.

Details
  • The check is on link count greater than one.
  • The refusal message reads it is a hard link, which an evaluation run does not publish.
Evidence

it is a hard link, which an evaluation run does not publish

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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