{"version":"2.1.299","anchor":"shell-snapshot-path-keeps-current-path-plus-missing-plugin-d","canonical_anchor":"shell-snapshot-path-keeps-current-path-plus-missing-plugin-d","heading":"Shell snapshots keep your own PATH and add missing plugin folders","tier":"notice","area":"Elsewhere","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.299\/e\/shell-snapshot-path-keeps-current-path-plus-missing-plugin-d","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.299","markdown":"### Shell snapshots keep your own PATH and add missing plugin folders\n\nIn one case, shell snapshots now save your shell's own PATH plus any missing plugin folders instead of a fixed PATH\n\n**Unclear.** Which situations take this new snapshot route is not shown.\n\n**What**\n\nA shell snapshot is a saved copy of your shell's setup that Claude Code reuses when it runs commands. In one case, the snapshot now saves PATH (the list of folders your shell searches for programs) exactly as your shell has it, plus any plugin folders missing from it. Before, it wrote a fixed PATH.\n\n**Why**\n\nCommands Claude runs may find the same programs your own shell finds.\n\n- Area: Elsewhere\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}