{"version":"2.1.321","anchor":"reserved-path-delete-error-now-covers-claudelocalmd","canonical_anchor":"reserved-path-delete-error-now-covers-claudelocalmd","heading":"CLAUDE.local.md gets the same protection as CLAUDE.md and .claude\/","tier":"notice","area":"Memory Files","scope":"individual","heads_up":true,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.321\/e\/reserved-path-delete-error-now-covers-claudelocalmd","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.321","markdown":"### CLAUDE.local.md gets the same protection as CLAUDE.md and .claude\/\n\nCLAUDE.local.md is now a protected path like CLAUDE.md: it cannot be deleted by a plan, and changes to it still ask every time\n\n**What**\n\n`CLAUDE.md` and `CLAUDE.local.md` are files holding instructions for Claude, and `.claude\/` is the folder of Claude Code settings. Claude Code already protected `CLAUDE.md` and `.claude\/`; `CLAUDE.local.md` is now protected too:\n\n- Path check: the check that recognised `claude.md` and `.claude` now also matches `claude.local.md` and paths under `claude.local.md\/`.\n\n- Delete error: the error for deleting reserved paths now reads \"Cannot delete reserved paths: ... CLAUDE.md, CLAUDE.local.md and .claude\/ carry agent instructions and are blocked regardless of the plan.\" It used to say they carry \"instructions to the design agent\".\n\n- Design project approval: the write-approval message now says \"Deletes and CLAUDE.md, CLAUDE.local.md and .claude paths still ask every time.\" Before, it named only CLAUDE.md and .claude paths.\n\n**Why**\n\nYour personal `CLAUDE.local.md` instructions can no longer be deleted as part of a plan, and changes to it ask for your approval each time, just as `CLAUDE.md` already did.\n\n- Area: Memory Files\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: yes"}