What
Claude Code's internal way of reading a setting can now be told to read from one specific source, skipping its usual order of checking several places.
Why
This is internal groundwork and changes nothing you set or see today.
Settings can be read from one chosen source
Claude Code's internal settings lookup can now read one chosen source directly instead of checking its usual order
Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
SettingsArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.323,
Internal ChangesSection of the release