Claude Code v2.1.301 ·
In a certain mode, Claude Code skips your home folder and asks before every write
In a certain mode, Claude Code no longer looks in your home folder for skills, agents and permissions, and file writes always need approval
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ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.301,
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Unclear It is not clear which mode or condition causes these home folder lookups to be skipped.
What
When a certain condition holds, Claude Code now skips lookups in your home folder that it used to always make. This affects:
- finding your personal skills and agents
- reading policy settings
- matching skill paths
- rules about linked copies of files
- the shortcuts that let Claude Code read your user-level files without asking
- the rule that allows reading the project's temporary folder
In the same case, any request to write a file is answered straight away with "you haven't granted it yet", so it needs your approval.
Why
This probably makes runs without a local disk, or runs on a remote machine, safer, with the result that file writes there always need approval.
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The writer flagged doubtIt is not clear which mode or condition causes these home folder lookups to be skipped.
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