{"version":"2.1.317","anchor":"settings-watcher-tracks-first-reads-and-own-writes","canonical_anchor":"settings-watcher-tracks-first-reads-and-own-writes","heading":"Claude Code tracks first reads of settings files and its own changes to them","tier":"internal","area":"Internals","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.317\/e\/settings-watcher-tracks-first-reads-and-own-writes","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.317","markdown":"### Claude Code tracks first reads of settings files and its own changes to them\n\nThe settings manager now remembers its first read of each settings file and the changes Claude Code itself writes before it checks again\n\n**What**\n\nThe part of Claude Code that manages settings files now keeps track of:\n\n- the first time it read each settings file\n\n- changes Claude Code itself wrote to a file before its first check of that file\n\n- which files have had that first check\n\n**Why**\n\nThis could change how Claude Code notices settings files that are edited outside it, by telling those edits apart from its own.\n\n- Area: Internals\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}