ccdesk 0.2.3 → 0.2.4

package/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,26 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [0.2.4](https://github.com/ayagmar/ccdesk/compare/v0.2.3...v0.2.4) (2026-10-13)
+
+### Features
+
+* **core:** warn when a higher managed source than the files is present ([cb04a30](https://github.com/ayagmar/ccdesk/commit/cb04a30e72293270bdf4e3529a938ef13188bb41))
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* **core:** count Explorer as having opened the file on Windows ([eb1a120](https://github.com/ayagmar/ccdesk/commit/eb1a12090507be426765c38d2e71a5f5500622ef))
+* **core:** hide header values and more secret flags in MCP server args ([3a9ee02](https://github.com/ayagmar/ccdesk/commit/3a9ee024a124602f486b3e8f41e23fffa7c84565))
+* **core:** look up ~/.claude.json folders as Claude Code keys them on Windows ([67a445d](https://github.com/ayagmar/ccdesk/commit/67a445d2a569bccd8f1615e798af099ece5dbe38))
+* **core:** name long project stores as Claude Code does ([98f4dd8](https://github.com/ayagmar/ccdesk/commit/98f4dd8f4efbe1ce0c2154e58b554c9a05baed95))
+* **core:** read JSON files that start with a byte order mark ([6bb2fd3](https://github.com/ayagmar/ccdesk/commit/6bb2fd302d468f1603d2230270ce5c9999027e93))
+* **core:** report a backup folder ccdesk cannot read instead of listing none ([1209b9c](https://github.com/ayagmar/ccdesk/commit/1209b9c0a360939a3247fd3e92ad9b0d41b579f6))
+* **core:** say why claude did not start on Windows instead of "not on PATH" ([9c0d3ad](https://github.com/ayagmar/ccdesk/commit/9c0d3adcc0ad0cb1ff4ed6b66377b603c1b1f4da))
+
+### Performance Improvements
+
+* **core:** group hand-approved calls without copying each group ([9ab7219](https://github.com/ayagmar/ccdesk/commit/9ab7219986690e08669f3aceacb93f3f48777e11))
+* **ui:** refresh the overview on focus and saves, not on watched changes ([9010576](https://github.com/ayagmar/ccdesk/commit/901057643dfcded5f2463ccb09353a5d264f109d))
+
 ## [0.2.3](https://github.com/ayagmar/ccdesk/compare/v0.2.2...v0.2.3) (2026-10-13)
 
 ### Features

package/README.md

@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ ccdesk reads `~/.claude` and `~/.claude.json`, or `$CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR` when it i
 ## Privacy and safety
 
 - The server listens on `127.0.0.1` only, and every API call needs a token generated for that run. Nothing leaves your machine.
-- Values under `env` and `headers`, and keys in an MCP server's `args` (after flags such as `--token` or `--api-key`, or starting like `sk-` or `ghp_`), are hidden everywhere in the UI, diffs included, and ccdesk refuses any edit that would change them.
+- Values under `env` and `headers`, and keys in an MCP server's `args` (after flags such as `--token` or `--api-key`, in a `--header` such as `Authorization: Bearer …`, or starting like `sk-` or `ghp_`), are hidden everywhere in the UI, diffs included, and ccdesk refuses any edit that would change them.
 - ccdesk never reads `~/.claude/.credentials.json`.
 - From your transcripts, only counts and rule patterns (a command's program and subcommand, a fetch's domain) reach the page, never commands or file contents.
 - Backups are readable only by you on Linux and macOS.

package/dist/core/agent-edit.d.ts

@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ import { type ScanEnv } from "./scan/env.ts";
 import { type Serially } from "./write.ts";
 export declare function previewAgentEdit(env: ScanEnv, edit: AgentEdit): Promise<SettingsEditPreview>;
 /** Writes or deletes an agent file, backed up first, only while it is as reviewed. */
-export declare function saveAgentEdit(env: ScanEnv, edit: AgentEdit, expectedRevision: string, queue?: Serially): Promise<Change>;
+export declare function saveAgentEdit(env: ScanEnv, edit: AgentEdit, expectedRevision: string, queue: Serially): Promise<Change>;

package/dist/core/agent-edit.js

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import { gitRoot } from "./scan/git.js";
 import { shownText } from "./secrets.js";
 import { scanDirectory } from "./scan/index.js";
 import { agentProblems } from "./scan/inventory.js";
-import { RefusedError, readIfExists, recordChange, removeExactly, StaleError, saveReviewed, serially, writeAtomic, } from "./write.js";
+import { RefusedError, readIfExists, recordChange, removeExactly, StaleError, saveReviewed, writeAtomic, } from "./write.js";
 /** The file an edit changes: an agent the scan shows here, or a new one in your or the project's folder. */
 async function targetOf(env, edit) {
     const dir = resolve(edit.dir);
@@ -71,6 +71,6 @@ export async function previewAgentEdit(env, edit) {
     return (await plan(env, edit)).preview;
 }
 /** Writes or deletes an agent file, backed up first, only while it is as reviewed. */
-export function saveAgentEdit(env, edit, expectedRevision, queue = serially) {
+export function saveAgentEdit(env, edit, expectedRevision, queue) {
     return saveReviewed(queue, () => plan(env, edit), expectedRevision, "The agent changed since you reviewed this; review it again.");
 }

package/dist/core/backups.d.ts

@@ -14,6 +14,6 @@ export declare function previewRestore(env: ScanEnv, id: string): Promise<Restor
  * Puts a backed-up file back, or removes a file ccdesk created, if the file is still as it was
  * when the restore was reviewed. A removed file is backed up first, so it can be put back too.
  */
-export declare function restoreBackup(env: ScanEnv, id: string, expectedRevision: string, queue?: Serially): Promise<{
+export declare function restoreBackup(env: ScanEnv, id: string, expectedRevision: string, queue: Serially): Promise<{
     target: string;
 }>;

package/dist/core/backups.js

@@ -3,17 +3,27 @@ import { basename, dirname, join } from "node:path";
 import { Compile } from "typebox/compile";
 import {} from "../shared/types.js";
 import { assertMemoryDir, indexPathIn, revisionOfBoth } from "./mutations.js";
+import { parseJson } from "./scan/data.js";
 import {} from "./scan/env.js";
 import { isWithin, revisionOf } from "./scan/files.js";
 import { hiddenValues, shown, shownText } from "./secrets.js";
-import { BackupManifestSchema, backupRoot, forgetChange, MANIFEST, RefusedError, readIfExists, recordChange, removeExactly, SHOWN_AFTER, SNAPSHOT, StaleError, serially, writeAtomic, } from "./write.js";
+import { BackupManifestSchema, backupRoot, forgetChange, MANIFEST, RefusedError, readIfExists, recordChange, removeExactly, SHOWN_AFTER, SNAPSHOT, StaleError, writeAtomic, } from "./write.js";
 const backupManifest = Compile(BackupManifestSchema);
 /** A backup folder's manifest; anything that does not look like one ccdesk wrote is skipped. */
 async function readManifest(env, id) {
     // ccdesk's ids are letters, digits and dashes, so no id can name a folder outside the root.
     if (!/^[\w-]+$/.test(id))
         return null;
-    const text = await readIfExists(env, join(backupRoot(env), id, MANIFEST)).catch(() => null);
+    let text;
+    try {
+        text = await readIfExists(env, join(backupRoot(env), id, MANIFEST));
+    }
+    catch (error) {
+        // A stray file in the backup folder is not a backup; a folder ccdesk cannot read is an error.
+        if (error.code === "ENOTDIR")
+            return null;
+        throw error;
+    }
     if (text === null)
         return null;
     let data;
@@ -25,9 +35,23 @@ async function readManifest(env, id) {
     }
     return backupManifest.Check(data) ? data : null;
 }
+/**
+ * Backup folder names, newest first. No folder yet means no changes; one ccdesk cannot read, such
+ * as one a `sudo ccdesk` left owned by root, is an error rather than an empty list.
+ */
+async function backupIds(env) {
+    try {
+        return (await readdir(backupRoot(env))).sort().reverse();
+    }
+    catch (error) {
+        if (error.code === "ENOENT")
+            return [];
+        throw error;
+    }
+}
 /** The changes ccdesk made, newest first, a page at a time. */
 export async function listBackups(env, { before, limit }) {
-    const ids = (await readdir(backupRoot(env)).catch(() => [])).sort().reverse();
+    const ids = await backupIds(env);
     const changes = [];
     for (const id of ids) {
         if (before !== undefined && id >= before)
@@ -69,7 +93,7 @@ function shownSettings(text) {
     if (text === null)
         return null;
     try {
-        return shown(JSON.parse(text));
+        return shown(parseJson(text));
     }
     catch {
         return "(not valid JSON; open the file to see it)\n";
@@ -239,7 +263,7 @@ export async function previewRestore(env, id) {
  * Puts a backed-up file back, or removes a file ccdesk created, if the file is still as it was
  * when the restore was reviewed. A removed file is backed up first, so it can be put back too.
  */
-export function restoreBackup(env, id, expectedRevision, queue = serially) {
+export function restoreBackup(env, id, expectedRevision, queue) {
     return queue(async () => {
         const plan = await planRestore(env, id);
         const { manifest, current, saved, index } = plan;

package/dist/core/index.d.ts

@@ -4,16 +4,16 @@ export { compareSettings } from "./scan/compare.ts";
 export { revisionOf } from "./scan/files.ts";
 export { scanDirectory, scanOverview } from "./scan/index.ts";
 export { testPath } from "./scan/path-test.ts";
-export { CountStopped, readUsage } from "./scan/usage.ts";
+export { CountStopped } from "./scan/usage.ts";
 export { hasHiddenValues, redactSecrets, shown, shownText } from "./secrets.ts";
 export { Watcher } from "./watch.ts";
-export { previewAgentEdit, saveAgentEdit } from "./agent-edit.ts";
-export { claudeProgram, claudeRunner, previewMcpEdit, type RunClaude, runClaude, saveMcpEdit, } from "./mcp-edit.ts";
-export { changeMemory, isMemoryAction, previewMemoryChange } from "./mutations.ts";
+export { previewAgentEdit } from "./agent-edit.ts";
+export { claudeProgram, claudeRunner, previewMcpEdit, type RunClaude } from "./mcp-edit.ts";
+export { isMemoryAction, previewMemoryChange } from "./mutations.ts";
 export { InvalidEditError, parseAgentEdit, parseHookEdit, parseMcpEdit, parsePermissionEdit, parseSettingsEdit, } from "./parse-edit.ts";
-export { previewHookEdit, previewPermissionEdit, previewSettingsEdit, saveHookEdit, savePermissionEdit, saveSettingsEdit, } from "./settings-edit.ts";
+export { previewHookEdit, previewPermissionEdit, previewSettingsEdit } from "./settings-edit.ts";
 export { RefusedError, StaleError } from "./write.ts";
-export { listBackups, previewRestore, restoreBackup } from "./backups.ts";
+export { listBackups, previewRestore } from "./backups.ts";
 export { openInEditor } from "./open.ts";
 export { REFERENCE } from "./reference.ts";
 export * from "../shared/compare.ts";

package/dist/core/index.js

@@ -1,32 +1,32 @@
 // The core: everything a front end needs to read and change Claude Code's configuration, without
 // HTTP. It re-exports the modules in src/core and src/shared; see ARCHITECTURE.md for how they
 // fit together and docs/split-plan.md for where they are going.
-// The core for one machine: createCore(env) returns the reads and changes below with the env
-// already passed, its own change queue and usage cache, and the editor and claude its env names.
+// The core for one machine: createCore(env) returns every read and change with the env already
+// passed, its own change queue and usage cache, and the editor and claude its env names. Changes,
+// usage counts and undo are made only through a core, so they run on its queue and cache.
 export { createCore } from "./core.js";
-// Environment: every function below takes the ScanEnv first. Called directly, they share one
-// change queue and one usage cache across the process; they stay for one release beside createCore.
+// Environment: every function below takes the ScanEnv first.
 export { isConfigHome, scanEnvFromProcess } from "./scan/env.js";
 // Read.
 export { compareSettings } from "./scan/compare.js";
 export { revisionOf } from "./scan/files.js";
 export { scanDirectory, scanOverview } from "./scan/index.js";
 export { testPath } from "./scan/path-test.js";
-export { CountStopped, readUsage } from "./scan/usage.js";
+export { CountStopped } from "./scan/usage.js";
 export { hasHiddenValues, redactSecrets, shown, shownText } from "./secrets.js";
 export { Watcher } from "./watch.js";
 // Edits: the parse functions turn input from outside (JSON, arguments) into an edit, or throw
-// InvalidEditError. Preview returns a revision, save takes it back. Both refuse with RefusedError,
-// also when the file changed since the preview; StaleError, a RefusedError, means it changed while
-// ccdesk was writing it.
-export { previewAgentEdit, saveAgentEdit } from "./agent-edit.js";
-export { claudeProgram, claudeRunner, previewMcpEdit, runClaude, saveMcpEdit, } from "./mcp-edit.js";
-export { changeMemory, isMemoryAction, previewMemoryChange } from "./mutations.js";
+// InvalidEditError. Preview returns a revision, and a core's save takes it back. Both refuse with
+// RefusedError, also when the file changed since the preview; StaleError, a RefusedError, means it
+// changed while ccdesk was writing it.
+export { previewAgentEdit } from "./agent-edit.js";
+export { claudeProgram, claudeRunner, previewMcpEdit } from "./mcp-edit.js";
+export { isMemoryAction, previewMemoryChange } from "./mutations.js";
 export { InvalidEditError, parseAgentEdit, parseHookEdit, parseMcpEdit, parsePermissionEdit, parseSettingsEdit, } from "./parse-edit.js";
-export { previewHookEdit, previewPermissionEdit, previewSettingsEdit, saveHookEdit, savePermissionEdit, saveSettingsEdit, } from "./settings-edit.js";
+export { previewHookEdit, previewPermissionEdit, previewSettingsEdit } from "./settings-edit.js";
 export { RefusedError, StaleError } from "./write.js";
-// History: every change ccdesk saves is a backup that can be restored by its id.
-export { listBackups, previewRestore, restoreBackup } from "./backups.js";
+// History: every change ccdesk saves is a backup that a core can restore by its id.
+export { listBackups, previewRestore } from "./backups.js";
 // Host.
 export { openInEditor } from "./open.js";
 // Claude Code's settings schema, settings catalog and hook events.

package/dist/core/mcp-edit.d.ts

@@ -16,10 +16,8 @@ export type RunClaude = (args: string[], cwd: string, configDir: string | undefi
 export declare function claudeProgram(path: string, platform: NodeJS.Platform): Promise<string>;
 /** Runs the claude on `host`'s PATH, with `host`'s environment. */
 export declare function claudeRunner(host: Pick<ScanEnv, "platform" | "processEnv">): RunClaude;
-/** claudeRunner for this process's PATH and environment, read on each run; use a core's instead. */
-export declare const runClaude: RunClaude;
 export declare function previewMcpEdit(env: ScanEnv, edit: McpEdit, run: RunClaude): Promise<SettingsEditPreview>;
 /** Makes a reviewed MCP edit, only while the servers are still as reviewed. */
-export declare function saveMcpEdit(env: ScanEnv, edit: McpEdit, expectedRevision: string, run: RunClaude, queue?: Serially): Promise<Change | {
+export declare function saveMcpEdit(env: ScanEnv, edit: McpEdit, expectedRevision: string, run: RunClaude, queue: Serially): Promise<Change | {
     target: string;
 }>;

package/dist/core/mcp-edit.js

@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@ import { delimiter, join, resolve } from "node:path";
 import {} from "../shared/types.js";
 import {} from "./scan/env.js";
 import { revisionOf } from "./scan/files.js";
-import { isRecord } from "./scan/data.js";
-import { gitRoot, mainWorktreeRoot, trustKey } from "./scan/git.js";
+import { isRecord, parseJson } from "./scan/data.js";
+import { claudeJsonKey, gitRoot, mainWorktreeRoot, trustKey } from "./scan/git.js";
 import { serverProblems } from "./scan/mcp.js";
 import { hasHiddenValues, jsonSyntaxError, redactSecrets, secretTexts, shown } from "./secrets.js";
-import { RefusedError, readIfExists, readJsonObject, recordChange, recordClaudeMcpChange, saveReviewed, serially, writeAtomic, } from "./write.js";
+import { RefusedError, readIfExists, readJsonObject, recordChange, recordClaudeMcpChange, saveReviewed, writeAtomic, } from "./write.js";
 const exists = (path) => access(path).then(() => true, () => false);
 /**
  * The program to run for `claude`. On Windows, npm installs Claude Code as a claude.cmd that starts
@@ -46,6 +46,14 @@ function secretsIn(args) {
         }
     });
 }
+/**
+ * Why claude did not start. On Windows a claude.cmd that npm did not install, such as Scoop's,
+ * Volta's or pnpm's, is on PATH but cannot be run without a shell, so "not on PATH" would mislead.
+ */
+const CLAUDE_NOT_FOUND = {
+    win32: "ccdesk changes your user and local MCP servers through the claude command and could not start it from PATH. On Windows it runs claude.exe, or the claude.exe inside npm's package when only npm's claude.cmd is there; another installer's claude.cmd or claude.ps1 cannot be started without a shell.",
+    other: "ccdesk changes your user and local MCP servers through the claude command, which is not on PATH.",
+};
 /** Runs the claude on `host`'s PATH, with `host`'s environment. */
 export function claudeRunner(host) {
     return async (args, cwd, configDir) => {
@@ -57,7 +65,7 @@ export function claudeRunner(host) {
         return new Promise((done, fail) => {
             execFile(program, args, { cwd, env, timeout: 30_000 }, (error, stdout, stderr) => {
                 if (error?.code === "ENOENT")
-                    return fail(new RefusedError("ccdesk changes your user and local MCP servers through the claude command, which is not on PATH."));
+                    return fail(new RefusedError(CLAUDE_NOT_FOUND[host.platform === "win32" ? "win32" : "other"]));
                 // Node's own message repeats the command, with the server's env and header values in it.
                 if (error) {
                     // claude's own message may quote the definition it was given.
@@ -71,10 +79,6 @@ export function claudeRunner(host) {
         });
     };
 }
-/** claudeRunner for this process's PATH and environment, read on each run; use a core's instead. */
-export const runClaude = (args, cwd, configDir) => 
-// biome-ignore lint/style/noProcessEnv: the documented default of the free runClaude; a core passes its own.
-claudeRunner({ platform: process.platform, processEnv: process.env })(args, cwd, configDir);
 /** Quotes a word for a POSIX shell, so a command shown to you can be pasted as it is. */
 function quoted(word) {
     return `'${word.replaceAll("'", "'\\''")}'`;
@@ -152,7 +156,7 @@ async function claudeJsonServers(env, edit) {
     const raw = await readIfExists(env, env.claudeJson);
     let data = {};
     try {
-        const parsed = raw === null ? {} : JSON.parse(raw);
+        const parsed = raw === null ? {} : parseJson(raw);
         if (isRecord(parsed))
             data = parsed;
     }
@@ -166,7 +170,7 @@ async function claudeJsonServers(env, edit) {
     if (!(await stat(cwd).catch(() => null))?.isDirectory())
         throw new RefusedError(`${cwd} is not a directory on this machine.`);
     const projects = isRecord(data.projects) ? data.projects : {};
-    const holder = edit.scope === "user" ? data : projects[cwd];
+    const holder = edit.scope === "user" ? data : projects[claudeJsonKey(env, cwd)];
     const servers = isRecord(holder) && isRecord(holder.mcpServers) ? holder.mcpServers : {};
     return { cwd, servers };
 }
@@ -279,6 +283,6 @@ export async function previewMcpEdit(env, edit, run) {
     return (await plan(env, edit, run)).preview;
 }
 /** Makes a reviewed MCP edit, only while the servers are still as reviewed. */
-export function saveMcpEdit(env, edit, expectedRevision, run, queue = serially) {
+export function saveMcpEdit(env, edit, expectedRevision, run, queue) {
     return saveReviewed(queue, () => plan(env, edit, run), expectedRevision, "The servers changed since you reviewed this edit; review it again.");
 }

package/dist/core/mutations.d.ts

@@ -17,4 +17,4 @@ export declare function previewMemoryChange(env: ScanEnv, action: MemoryAction,
  * Makes a reviewed memory action. `path` is the memory file, or MEMORY.md for remove-dead; the
  * action runs only while everything its review was worked out from is unchanged.
  */
-export declare function changeMemory(env: ScanEnv, action: MemoryAction, path: string, expectedRevision: string, queue?: Serially): Promise<Change>;
+export declare function changeMemory(env: ScanEnv, action: MemoryAction, path: string, expectedRevision: string, queue: Serially): Promise<Change>;

package/dist/core/mutations.js

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import { isWithin, revisionOf, stringField } from "./scan/files.js";
 import { parseFrontmatter } from "./scan/data.js";
 import { shownText } from "./secrets.js";
 import { deadLinks, indexMentions } from "./scan/memory.js";
-import { RefusedError, readIfExists, recordChange, removeExactly, saveReviewed, serially, writeAtomic, } from "./write.js";
+import { RefusedError, readIfExists, recordChange, removeExactly, saveReviewed, writeAtomic, } from "./write.js";
 async function projectsRoot(env) {
     return realpath(join(env.claudeDir, "projects")).catch(() => {
         throw new RefusedError("There is no auto memory folder.");
@@ -181,6 +181,6 @@ export async function previewMemoryChange(env, action, path) {
  * Makes a reviewed memory action. `path` is the memory file, or MEMORY.md for remove-dead; the
  * action runs only while everything its review was worked out from is unchanged.
  */
-export function changeMemory(env, action, path, expectedRevision, queue = serially) {
+export function changeMemory(env, action, path, expectedRevision, queue) {
     return saveReviewed(queue, () => PLANS[action](env, path), expectedRevision, REVIEW_AGAIN);
 }

package/dist/core/open.d.ts

@@ -23,9 +23,6 @@ export declare function spawnPlan(command: string, args: string[], path: string,
  * failed. On Windows `start` is a cmd.exe builtin, so cmd.exe is the command.
  */
 export declare function openBrowser(url: string, host: Host): Promise<string | null>;
-/**
- * Opens a file or folder in the first editor that starts on `host`; resolves with the command
- * used. Without `host` it uses this process's platform and environment; use a core's instead.
- */
-export declare function openInEditor(path: string, host?: Host): Promise<string>;
+/** Opens a file or folder in the first editor that starts on `host`; resolves with the command used. */
+export declare function openInEditor(path: string, host: Host): Promise<string>;
 export {};

package/dist/core/open.js

@@ -121,7 +121,10 @@ function launch([command, args], path, host) {
         });
         child.once("exit", (code) => {
             clearTimeout(timer);
-            resolve(code === 0 ? null : `${command} exited with code ${code}`);
+            // explorer.exe hands the file to the running shell and exits with 1 even when that worked.
+            if (code === 0 || command === "explorer")
+                return resolve(null);
+            resolve(`${command} exited with code ${code}`);
         });
     });
 }
@@ -148,13 +151,8 @@ function browserOpener(platform) {
         return ["cmd.exe", ["/c", "start", ""]];
     return ["xdg-open", []];
 }
-/**
- * Opens a file or folder in the first editor that starts on `host`; resolves with the command
- * used. Without `host` it uses this process's platform and environment; use a core's instead.
- */
-export async function openInEditor(path, 
-// biome-ignore lint/style/noProcessEnv: the documented default of the free openInEditor; a core passes its own.
-host = { platform: process.platform, processEnv: process.env }) {
+/** Opens a file or folder in the first editor that starts on `host`; resolves with the command used. */
+export async function openInEditor(path, host) {
     const failures = [];
     for (const command of editorCommands(host.processEnv, host.platform)) {
         const failure = await launch(command, path, host);

package/dist/core/scan/data.d.ts

@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@ interface Frontmatter {
     data: Record<string, unknown>;
     body: string;
 }
+/**
+ * JSON.parse after dropping a leading byte order mark, as Claude Code does before it parses a
+ * settings, MCP or state file (observed in v2.1.296 and the SDK's safeParseJSON; the docs do not
+ * say). Windows PowerShell 5.1 and some editors write one.
+ */
+export declare function parseJson(text: string): unknown;
 export declare const FRONTMATTER: RegExp;
 export declare function parseFrontmatter(text: string): Frontmatter;
 export {};

package/dist/core/scan/data.js

@@ -3,6 +3,14 @@ import { parse as parseYaml } from "yaml";
 export function isRecord(value) {
     return typeof value === "object" && value !== null && !Array.isArray(value);
 }
+/**
+ * JSON.parse after dropping a leading byte order mark, as Claude Code does before it parses a
+ * settings, MCP or state file (observed in v2.1.296 and the SDK's safeParseJSON; the docs do not
+ * say). Windows PowerShell 5.1 and some editors write one.
+ */
+export function parseJson(text) {
+    return JSON.parse(text.startsWith("\uFEFF") ? text.slice(1) : text);
+}
 export const FRONTMATTER = /^---\r?\n([\s\S]*?)\r?\n---\r?\n?/;
 export function parseFrontmatter(text) {
     const match = FRONTMATTER.exec(text);

package/dist/core/scan/env.d.ts

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ export interface ScanEnv {
     claudeJson: string;
     /** System directory for organisation-managed CLAUDE.md and managed-settings.json. */
     managedDir: string;
+    /** macOS configuration profiles that deliver managed settings (MDM), which outrank managedDir's files. */
+    managedProfiles?: string[] | undefined;
     platform: NodeJS.Platform;
     /**
      * The environment ccdesk runs in: where it finds an editor and `claude` (PATH, VISUAL, EDITOR,

package/dist/core/scan/env.js

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { homedir } from "node:os";
+import { homedir, userInfo } from "node:os";
 import { join, resolve } from "node:path";
 /** `configDirFlag`, from `--config-dir`, stands in for CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR and wins over it. */
 export function scanEnvFromProcess(configDirFlag) {
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ export function scanEnvFromProcess(configDirFlag) {
         // Claude Code keeps .claude.json beside the config dir it was given.
         claudeJson: configDir ? join(configDir, ".claude.json") : join(home, ".claude.json"),
         managedDir: managedDirFor(process.platform),
+        managedProfiles: process.platform === "darwin" ? managedProfiles() : undefined,
         platform: process.platform,
         processEnv,
         disableAutoMemory: processEnv.CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_AUTO_MEMORY,
@@ -26,6 +27,12 @@ export function scanEnvFromProcess(configDirFlag) {
 export function isConfigHome(env, path) {
     return path === env.home || join(path, ".claude") === env.claudeDir;
 }
+/** Where macOS puts the com.anthropic.claudecode profile: for this user, then for the device. */
+function managedProfiles() {
+    const dir = "/Library/Managed Preferences";
+    const profile = "com.anthropic.claudecode.plist";
+    return [join(dir, userInfo().username, profile), join(dir, profile)];
+}
 function managedDirFor(platform) {
     if (platform === "darwin")
         return "/Library/Application Support/ClaudeCode";

package/dist/core/scan/files.js

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { lstat, open, readdir, readlink, realpath, stat } from "node:fs/promises
 import { basename, dirname, join, relative, resolve, sep } from "node:path";
 import {} from "../../shared/types.js";
 import { jsonSyntaxError, shownJsonFile, shownText } from "../secrets.js";
-import { isRecord } from "./data.js";
+import { isRecord, parseJson } from "./data.js";
 import {} from "./env.js";
 /** Claude Code skips a CLAUDE.md larger than this (docs: memory#auto-memory), so ccdesk reads no more. */
 export const MAX_TEXT_BYTES = 4 * 1024 * 1024;
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ export async function readJsonObject(env, path, { emptyIsObject = false } = {})
     if (emptyIsObject && raw.trim() === "")
         return { ok: true, data: {} };
     try {
-        const data = JSON.parse(raw);
+        const data = parseJson(raw);
         if (!isRecord(data))
             return { ok: false, missing: false, unparsed: true, error: "not a JSON object" };
         return { ok: true, data };

package/dist/core/scan/git.d.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { type Visibility } from "../../shared/types.ts";
+import { type ScanEnv } from "./env.ts";
 export declare function gitRoot(dir: string): Promise<string | null>;
 /** Every checkout of the repository `dir` is in, the main one first; empty outside git. */
 export declare function worktrees(dir: string): Promise<string[]>;
@@ -10,5 +11,10 @@ export declare function mainWorktreeRoot(dir: string): Promise<string | null>;
  * under it and `claude mcp add --scope local` writes under it, so both take it from here.
  */
 export declare function trustKey(dir: string, mainRoot: string | null, root: string | null): string;
+/**
+ * A folder as ~/.claude.json names it under `projects`: Claude Code writes Windows paths with
+ * forward slashes (observed in v2.1.296; the docs do not say), so lookups go through this.
+ */
+export declare function claudeJsonKey(env: ScanEnv, path: string): string;
 /** Git visibility of each path, batched into two git calls per repository. */
 export declare function visibilityOf(root: string | null, paths: string[]): Promise<Map<string, Visibility>>;

package/dist/core/scan/git.js

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import { execFile } from "node:child_process";
 import { dirname, normalize, relative } from "node:path";
 import { promisify } from "node:util";
 import {} from "../../shared/types.js";
+import {} from "./env.js";
 import { isWithin } from "./files.js";
 const run = promisify(execFile);
 export async function gitRoot(dir) {
@@ -54,6 +55,13 @@ export async function mainWorktreeRoot(dir) {
 export function trustKey(dir, mainRoot, root) {
     return mainRoot ?? root ?? dir;
 }
+/**
+ * A folder as ~/.claude.json names it under `projects`: Claude Code writes Windows paths with
+ * forward slashes (observed in v2.1.296; the docs do not say), so lookups go through this.
+ */
+export function claudeJsonKey(env, path) {
+    return env.platform === "win32" ? path.replaceAll("\\", "/") : path;
+}
 /** Git visibility of each path, batched into two git calls per repository. */
 export async function visibilityOf(root, paths) {
     const result = new Map();

package/dist/core/scan/index.js

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import { buildContext } from "./context.js";
 import { isConfigHome } from "./env.js";
 import { isDir, isFile, readJsonObject, stringsIn } from "./files.js";
 import { isRecord } from "./data.js";
-import { gitRoot, mainWorktreeRoot, trustKey, visibilityOf } from "./git.js";
+import { claudeJsonKey, gitRoot, mainWorktreeRoot, trustKey, visibilityOf } from "./git.js";
 import { AGENTS_MD_MODES, resolveInstructions } from "./instructions.js";
 import { readInventory } from "./inventory.js";
 import { readMemoryStore } from "./memory.js";
@@ -201,7 +201,10 @@ async function localFromRepository(settings) {
  */
 function trustOf(env, claudeJson, path, mainRoot, repoRoot) {
     const projects = isRecord(claudeJson?.projects) ? claudeJson.projects : {};
-    const entry = (key) => (isRecord(projects[key]) ? projects[key] : {});
+    const entry = (dir) => {
+        const found = projects[claudeJsonKey(env, dir)];
+        return isRecord(found) ? found : {};
+    };
     const root = trustKey(path, mainRoot, repoRoot);
     const own = entry(root);
     const trust = {

package/dist/core/scan/mcp.js

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import { redactSecrets, shownUrl } from "../secrets.js";
 import { isConfigHome } from "./env.js";
 import { readJsonOrReport, stringField, stringsIn, wildcard } from "./files.js";
 import { isRecord } from "./data.js";
+import { claudeJsonKey } from "./git.js";
 import { manifestConfigs } from "./plugins.js";
 import serverSchema from "../../shared/mcp-server.schema.json" with { type: "json" };
 import { schemaErrors } from "../schema.js";
@@ -209,7 +210,7 @@ export async function readMcpServers(input, plugins) {
     // Local servers live in the entry under the trust key, even from a subdirectory: claude mcp add
     // --scope local writes there and claude mcp list reads only that entry, ignoring one for the
     // subdirectory (observed with v2.1.296; the docs do not say).
-    const entry = projects[trust.root];
+    const entry = projects[claudeJsonKey(env, trust.root)];
     const project = isRecord(entry) ? entry : {};
     const managedFile = join(env.managedDir, "managed-mcp.json");
     const managedJson = await readJsonOrReport(env, managedFile, problems);

package/dist/core/scan/projects.js

@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ import { readMemoryStore } from "./memory.js";
 export async function listProjects(env, claudeJson, launchDir) {
     const byPath = new Map();
     const storesRoot = join(env.claudeDir, "projects");
-    const knownPaths = isRecord(claudeJson?.projects) ? Object.keys(claudeJson.projects) : [];
+    // Claude Code keys Windows folders with forward slashes; listed here as Windows writes them.
+    const knownPaths = (isRecord(claudeJson?.projects) ? Object.keys(claudeJson.projects) : []).map((key) => (env.platform === "win32" ? key.replaceAll("/", "\\") : key));
     for (const name of await listDir(storesRoot)) {
         const storeDir = join(storesRoot, name);
         if (!(await isDir(storeDir)))

package/dist/core/scan/settings.d.ts

@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ export interface ManagedSettings {
     data: Record<string, unknown> | null;
     sources: string[];
     dropIns: string[];
+    /** Managed sources ccdesk does not read that rank above the files (higherSources). */
+    higher: string[];
     errors: string[];
     /** A managed file that is there but not a JSON object: Claude Code refuses to start (docs: managed-settings#find-entries-claude-code-dropped). */
     blocksStart: boolean;

package/dist/core/scan/settings.js

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { allowedScopes, EVERY_FILE, ignoredReason } from "../../shared/scopes.js
 import {} from "../../shared/types.js";
 import { redactSecrets } from "../secrets.js";
 import {} from "./env.js";
-import { listDir, readJsonObject } from "./files.js";
+import { isFile, listDir, readJsonObject } from "./files.js";
 import { isRecord } from "./data.js";
 import { mainWorktreeRoot } from "./git.js";
 import { sandboxFilter } from "./sandbox.js";
@@ -189,10 +189,17 @@ export async function readManagedSettings(env) {
         sources.push(source);
         data = data ? mergeSettings(data, result.data) : result.data;
     }
-    return { data, sources, dropIns, errors, blocksStart };
+    // Server-managed settings, then MDM, outrank the files; by default Claude Code uses the first
+    // source that sets a policy key and skips the rest (docs: managed-settings#how-claude-code-combines-managed-sources).
+    const candidates = [join(env.claudeDir, "remote-settings.json"), ...(env.managedProfiles ?? [])];
+    const higher = [];
+    for (const source of candidates)
+        if (await isFile(source))
+            higher.push(source);
+    return { data, sources, dropIns, higher, errors, blocksStart };
 }
 function managedLayer(path, managed) {
-    const { data, sources, dropIns, errors, blocksStart } = managed;
+    const { data, sources, dropIns, higher, errors, blocksStart } = managed;
     const layer = { scope: "managed", path, exists: false, data: null };
     if (data)
         layer.data = redactSecrets(data);
@@ -203,6 +210,8 @@ function managedLayer(path, managed) {
         layer.error = errors.join("; ");
     if (blocksStart)
         layer.blocksStart = true;
+    if (higher.length > 0)
+        layer.higherSources = higher;
     return layer;
 }
 /** The value Claude Code ends up with for each top-level key, and where it came from. */

package/dist/core/scan/usage.d.ts

@@ -17,9 +17,3 @@ export declare function usageCounter(): (env: ScanEnv, dir: string, rules: RuleI
     timeLimitMs?: number;
     maxCachedCalls?: number;
 }) => Promise<Usage>;
-/** Counts with a cache and queue shared by every caller in the process; use a core's instead. */
-export declare const readUsage: (env: ScanEnv, dir: string, rules: RuleInEffect[], { signal, timeLimitMs, maxCachedCalls, }?: {
-    signal?: AbortSignal;
-    timeLimitMs?: number;
-    maxCachedCalls?: number;
-}) => Promise<Usage>;