You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
PermissionsArea: what it touches
Bug FixesKind: in v2.1.257,
Bug FixesSection of the release
When a read outside the working directory is denied because of the block-outside-reads setting, the message now tells the model to ask the user to add the directory with /add-dir or to remove the setting, and it distinguishes whether that setting was saved to user settings or is only session-scoped.
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 /add-dir, on Claude Code changelog.* 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 completionchangelogsee the edit
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Anthropic's documentation agreesAnthropic's documentation has since written up /add-dir, on Claude Code changelog.
Anthropic's release notes agreeFixed /add-dir rejecting a directory inside the current working directory; it now loads that directory's skills, commands, and agents like…
