Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
PluginsArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.292,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
Claude Code has a check that works out why plugins have not been turned off. That check now reads two kinds of settings file through a guarded reader, one that can refuse a file instead of opening it directly:
the legacy local settings file
the settings files of added directories, which are extra folders you have given Claude Code access to
If the reader refuses a file, Claude Code logs that it counted the file as present anyway. It also notes whether an added directory's settings file is behind a link, meaning a symbolic link that points somewhere else.
Why
This makes these settings reads safer when a file is a link to another place or sits on a network drive.
