{"version":"2.1.321","anchor":"git-status-in-system-context-now-guarded-and-can-be-left-out","canonical_anchor":"git-status-in-system-context-now-guarded-and-can-be-left-out","heading":"The git status Claude sees at startup is now checked for safety and can be left out","tier":"notice","area":"Context","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.321\/e\/git-status-in-system-context-now-guarded-and-can-be-left-out","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.321","markdown":"### The git status Claude sees at startup is now checked for safety and can be left out\n\nClaude Code now takes its startup git status with a time limit and safety checks, and leaves it out of Claude's context when a check fails\n\n**What**\n\nWhen a session starts, Claude Code gives Claude a snapshot of your repository's git status, a list of changed files. It now takes that snapshot with a time limit and checks for:\n\n- whether you are really in a git working folder\n\n- an `include.path` entry in the repository's git config\n\n- filter drivers, which are programs git runs on files\n\nIf a check fails, the status is left out of Claude's context and the reason is logged. If the status was taken with the repository's own filters switched off, Claude is told that a file in the list may in fact be unchanged. Before, git status ran directly with no time limit and none of these checks.\n\n**Why**\n\nRepositories with unusual git settings may now start a session without the status, rather than hanging or running a filter program on startup.\n\n- Flag `tengu_prancy_pebble`: Off by default, switched on for this account (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.321; this account: on, anonymous baseline: on, compiled default: off) These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.\n- Area: Context\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}