A new permissions setting blocks any file read outside your working directories, in prompts and in the sandbox.
A new setting, permissions.blockReadsOutsideWorkingDirectories, is now read from settings and propagated through settings serialization/merge. When enabled it switches directory validation to a stricter check (kHt(n) instead of fS(n)), adds blockReadsOutsideWorkingDirectories: true to the tool permission context, and is enforced in the sandbox filesystem policy, command-parsing/read-permission logic, and user-facing deny/ask messages ("Reads outside the working directories are blocked"). It is explicitly stripped out for remote-execution permission modes.
Alongside it, validating a directory to add as a trusted working directory (validateDirectoryForWorkspace) now checks whether the path is a network path before doing a normal stat, returning a new networkPath result type instead of treating it as an ordinary directory-check failure. This rejects UNC/network paths from being added as working directories, with guidance about drive-letter mapping on Windows.
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.
When you set it in a project's `.claude/settings.json` or `.claude/settings.local.json`, Claude Code honors it under the same [workspace trust rule as hooks in settings files](/docs/en/permissions#what-runs-before-you-trust-a-folder). Whil…memory see the edit
* Fixed the `/add-dir` path input: the left and right arrow keys now move the cursor, and Enter adds only the typed path instead of also adding the highlighted completionchangelog see the edit
* Fixed Bash commands with two directory changes, a subshell, or a `cd`+`git` chain skipping the prompt under `permissions.blockReadsOutsideWorkingDirectories` in bypass and auto modechangelog see the edit
Anthropic's documentation has since written up permissions.blockReadsOutsideWorkingDirectories, on Claude Code changelog.
Added a one-time prompt in auto mode before the first file read outside the working directories, with the option to block such reads…