Claude Code's Delete Safety Prompt Now Covers External Drives: Update and Add a Safety Rule
Before 2.1.304, rm -r on a mounted drive skipped the safety prompt that protects /Applications. The update command, how to check your version, and a one-line rule that makes Claude ask before any rm
Claude Code has a built-in safety prompt for dangerous deletes, like rm -rf on /Applications. Until version 2.1.304, rm -r on a mounted drive or a top-level folder (/Volumes, /media, WSL's /mnt/c) did not get it. Now it does.
Here's the update command, how to check your version, and an extra rule that makes Claude ask before any rm.
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