{"version":"2.1.311","anchor":"windows-style-config-dir-path-classification-added-to-startu","canonical_anchor":"windows-style-config-dir-path-classification-added-to-startu","heading":"Startup report notes the kind of path set in CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR","tier":"internal","area":"Telemetry","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.311\/e\/windows-style-config-dir-path-classification-added-to-startu","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.311","markdown":"### Startup report notes the kind of path set in CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR\n\nClaude Code's startup usage report now records what kind of path `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR` holds, such as absolute or tilde, but not the path itself\n\n**What**\n\n`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:\n\n- unset\n\n- blank\n\n- absolute\n\n- unc (a Windows network path)\n\n- tilde (starting with `~`)\n\n- variable\n\n- relative\n\nIf the folder used for settings is a different kind of path from the config folder, the report records that second kind too.\n\n**Why**\n\nThe report records only the shape of the path, not the path itself, so your actual folder names are not sent.\n\n- Area: Telemetry\n- Names: `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR`\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}