Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
TelemetryArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.311,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR is the environment variable that tells Claude Code where to keep its configuration. When Claude Code starts, it sends a usage report, known as telemetry. That report now includes what kind of path the variable holds. The kinds include:
unset
blank
absolute
unc (a Windows network path)
tilde (starting with ~)
variable
relative
If the folder used for settings is a different kind of path from the config folder, the report records that second kind too.
Why
The report records only the shape of the path, not the path itself, so your actual folder names are not sent.
