What
Slash commands are instructions you type starting with /. When you type one Claude Code does not know, it used to always check your disk to see whether the text was really a file path. It now:
- first checks whether the name is valid
- skips the disk check for forms that are not local paths
- drops commands that a new check flags
Why
This affects what happens when you paste or type a path that starts with /, and whether it is treated as a command or as a path.
Something disagreesSomething we can check disagrees with this entry, or the writer said they could not settle it.
The writer flagged doubt
What the two new checks look for is not known.