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Claude Code: Block edits outside your project
Keep Claude Code’s file edits inside your project folders.
A new setting, permissions., makes the Write, Edit and NotebookEdit tools refuse paths outside your working directories. The release came out late on Oct 29, 2026.
What changed
The block holds in every permission mode. With the setting on, Claude Code’s Write, Edit and NotebookEdit tools refuse any path outside the working directories, so a file elsewhere on your machine stays untouched by those tools. It sits under permissions, next to your other permission rules.
Also in this release
- Idle compaction reaches VS Code and Claude Desktop’s Code tab: a 200K+ token conversation left idle is summarized, and the summary is used on your next message if the prompt cache has expired.
- Sessions that failed turn after turn with “Invalid effort level” when an admin caps a model’s effort now lower the effort, retry, and say which level they use.