{"version":"2.1.319","anchor":"skill-discovery-skips-connector-downloads-folders","canonical_anchor":"skill-discovery-skips-connector-downloads-folders","heading":"Connector downloads and added folders are trusted less","tier":"notice","area":"Connectors","scope":"individual","heads_up":true,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.319\/e\/skill-discovery-skips-connector-downloads-folders","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.319","markdown":"### Connector downloads and added folders are trusted less\n\nFiles from claude.ai connectors no longer load as skills, CLAUDE.md or MCP config, and added folders and connector file sends get stricter rules\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code saves files downloaded from claude.ai connectors (links to outside services) in a connector-downloads folder. Content there is no longer treated as configuration:\n\n- Skill folders, and folders added with `--add-dir` (extra working folders), are not loaded when they are in or beneath a connector-downloads folder. Claude Code logs a skip message and explains that the folder's skills and commands weren't loaded. Project skill folders also get extra handling for skills found in nested folders.\n\n- `CLAUDE.md` files inside such a folder are skipped, and a message is logged.\n\n- When Claude Code looks upward through parent folders for a project `.mcp.json`, it no longer reads one in a connector-downloads folder. A warning tells you to move or rename the folder. Adding or removing project-scope MCP servers there fails with \"Cannot change .mcp.json here: this folder is in a connector-downloads folder\".\n\n- Project-scope workflows can't be saved in or beneath a connector-downloads folder.\n\nAdded folders and sending files to connectors:\n\n- `extraKnownMarketplaces` and `enabledPlugins` in a folder added with `--add-dir` are ignored unless that folder is trusted. This applies when the server-controlled switch `tengu_tawny_thrush` is on, and nothing has been read about that switch. A warning explains how to fix it, and folders in Downloads are filtered out.\n\n- When Claude sends a file to a connector, paths through `..namedfork` are refused. On macOS that is a hidden second part of a file, and the message says \"this path goes through a file's named fork\".\n\n- Long refusal messages explain how to use `--add-dir` or `\/add-dir`.\n\n- Background-job sessions may only send files the user attached to the chat.\n\n- macOS screenshot names with AM\/PM are retried with the other space character.\n\n- A host-mapped path option skips local path resolution.\n\n**Why**\n\nA file downloaded from a connector, or a folder you only meant to work in, can no longer quietly add skills, instructions, MCP servers or plugins to your session. When a file send is refused, the message tells you what to do.\n\n- Area: Connectors\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: yes"}