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@rubenvarela
rubenvarela
opened on Dec 10, 2025

I lost my .claude/settings.json

ccstatusline/src/utils/claude-settings.ts

Lines 61 to 72 in 03d1969

export async function loadClaudeSettings(): Promise<ClaudeSettings> {
try {
const settingsPath = getClaudeSettingsPath();
if (!fs.existsSync(settingsPath)) {
return {};
}
const content = await readFile(settingsPath, 'utf-8');
return JSON.parse(content) as ClaudeSettings;
} catch {
return {};
}
}

  • If not exists, return empty.
  • If it exists, and can't be read or parsed, you return empty. This is after acknowledging that the file exists. This truncates the file effectively. There's no logging/information.

You already have a mechanism for your ~/.config/ccstatusline/settings.json to be moved to ~/.config/ccstatusline/settings.bak

ccstatusline/src/utils/config.ts

Lines 24 to 36 in 03d1969

const SETTINGS_BACKUP_PATH = path.join(CONFIG_DIR, 'settings.bak');
async function backupBadSettings(): Promise<void> {
try {
if (fs.existsSync(SETTINGS_PATH)) {
const content = await readFile(SETTINGS_PATH, 'utf-8');
await writeFile(SETTINGS_BACKUP_PATH, content, 'utf-8');
console.error(`Bad settings backed up to ${SETTINGS_BACKUP_PATH}`);
}
} catch (error) {
console.error('Failed to backup bad settings:', error);
}
}

In 2 places, if there's issues with it, you back it up before setting defaults and have some logging at least,

ccstatusline/src/utils/config.ts

Lines 65 to 72 in 03d1969

try {
rawData = JSON.parse(content);
} catch {
// If we can't parse the JSON, backup and write defaults
console.error('Failed to parse settings.json, backing up and using defaults');
await backupBadSettings();
return await writeDefaultSettings();
}

ccstatusline/src/utils/config.ts

Lines 104 to 109 in 03d1969

} catch (error) {
// Any other error, backup and write defaults
console.error('Error loading settings:', error);
await backupBadSettings();
return await writeDefaultSettings();
}

I also run multiple claude instances. It could also be a race condition or something else modifying things on the fly and timing could have sucked. Something that implements file locking could be good too.

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