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Bash SafetyArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.273,
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What
When permissions.blockReadsOutsideWorkingDirectories is turned on (which makes file tools refuse reads outside your designated working directories), Bash commands that can't be reliably checked against that rule are refused. Previously this only applied to commands flagged as "too complex." Now a table of refusal reasons decides which ones trigger the same refusal, including: too-complex, semantics, multi-cd, shell-operators, cd-git-compound, and process-substitution. Other reasons, like dangerous-path, flag-validation, net-redirect, and sed-dangerous, are explicitly excluded.
Why
This broadens the read-block safety net to more kinds of Bash commands that are hard to statically verify, closing gaps where a command could previously slip past the outside-working-directory read restriction just because it wasn't classified as "too complex."
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 blockReadsOutsideWorkingDirectories, on Claude Code changelog.* Added Claude apps gateway support for newer Claude Desktop keys in `desktop` policy blocks, including `blockReadsOutsideWorkingDirectories` and `disableBypassPermissionsMode`changelogsee the edit
Added sinceA small documentation edit on How Claude remembers your project touched a line naming blockReadsOutsideWorkingDirectories after this was published.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…memorysee the edit
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Anthropic's documentation agreesA small documentation edit on How Claude remembers your project touched a line naming blockReadsOutsideWorkingDirectories after this was…
Anthropic's release notes agreeFixed Bash commands the permission checker cannot fully analyze skipping the prompt under permissions.blockReadsOutsideWorkingDirectories…