Under the hood
A new helper checks whether a path is a symbolic link
What
Claude Code has a new internal async helper function that checks whether a given path is a symbolic link (a file that points to another file or folder rather than containing data itself), returning false if the check fails for any reason rather than raising an error.
Why
The finding doesn't say where this helper is used, only that it now exists as a safe, error-tolerant way to detect symlinks.
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The writer flagged doubt
Which feature or code path now uses this symlink check is not stated in the finding.