02 — Quiz: settings and defaults

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1. Your user settings say "spinnerTipsEnabled": false. The team's .claude/settings.json says true. What do you get in that project?

a) no tips: your personal choice wins

b) tips: the project file is higher than the user file

c) a settings error

d) it alternates between sessions

b — project settings override user settings. Put false in .claude/settings.local.json to change it just for you.

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2. Your user file allows Bash(npm run test *). The project file denies the same rule. Does npm run test run without asking?

a) yes: allow lists merge, so it's allowed

b) no: the lists merge, and a deny in any file wins

c) yes: user settings are checked last

d) only in bypassPermissions

b — permissions lists combine across files, and deny beats allow.

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3. The team file sets one model. You want a different model, only for yourself, only in this repo. Where does it go?

a) ~/.claude/settings.json

b) the team's .claude/settings.json

c) .claude/settings.local.json

d) CLAUDE.md

c — the local file is personal, scoped to this project, and ranks above the team file.

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4. You want to test a new setting without touching any file. What's the safe way?

a) edit ~/.claude/settings.json and hope

b) start one session with claude --settings <file or JSON>, which writes nothing

c) edit ~/.claude.json

d) add it to CLAUDE.md

b — --settings applies for that session only. When you're happy, back up the real file, edit it, and check /status.

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5. A teammate adds an API key to env in the committed .claude/settings.json. What's wrong with that?

a) nothing: settings files are encrypted

b) only that env keys are ignored

c) the key is plain text in the repo, and every command Claude runs can see it

d) it only works on macOS

c — env values are plain text and reach every subprocess. Use apiKeyHelper, and keep secrets out of git.

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