{"version":"2.1.319","anchor":"settings-file-read-failures-now-flagged-failedfornow","canonical_anchor":"settings-file-read-failures-now-flagged-failedfornow","heading":"Failed file reads are now marked as failures for the moment","tier":"internal","area":"Elsewhere","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.319\/e\/settings-file-read-failures-now-flagged-failedfornow","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.319","markdown":"### Failed file reads are now marked as failures for the moment\n\nWhen Claude Code fails to read or parse a file, the result is now marked as failed for now, and some errors also clear the stored copy\n\n**Unclear.** Which files this applies to, and what Claude Code does differently when it sees the marker, is not known.\n\n**What**\n\nWhen Claude Code tries to read or parse a file and fails, the result now carries a marker meaning \"failed for now\". On some kinds of error, Claude Code also throws away its stored copy of that file before returning the result. Together these appear to treat the failure as temporary rather than final.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis can change what happens after a read error that clears up on its own, such as whether Claude Code tries the file again or falls back to something else.\n\n- Area: Elsewhere\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}