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Session sandbox/settings scan now also protects a new policy-limits path pair

Two more policy-limits paths join the fixed set always treated as reach-relevant during settings scans.

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Two more policy-limits paths join the fixed set always treated as reach-relevant during settings scans.

The fixed set of paths always treated as reach-relevant during session sandbox/settings scans now includes two additional policy-limits.json locations, returned by helper functions, alongside the existing set of scheduled_tasks.json, launch.json, CLAUDE.md, daemon.json, and policy-limits.json.

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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 since Anthropic's documentation has since written up policy-limits.json, on Explore the .claude directory. | `~/.claude/policy-limits.json` | Nothing. Refreshed automatically. | claude-directory see the edit
Added since A small documentation edit on Explore the .claude directory touched a line naming policy-limits.json after this was published. | `policy-limits.json` | Cached feature policy settings for your organization. Only present for some account types. Refreshed automatically. A `policy-limits.json.stamp.json` sidecar records which account or API key the cache belongs to. C… claude-directory see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation agreesA small documentation edit on Explore the .claude directory touched a line naming policy-limits.json after this was published.

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