refactor(plugins): simplify settings resolution helpers

- Drop redundant except FileNotFoundError in _read_block (subclass of
  Exception, already caught).
- Drop redundant os.path.abspath in load_settings; _project_dir already
  returns an absolute path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Lawrentz <samuel.lawerence@plivo.com>

Author: 2 people

plugins/claude-code/hooks/pre-compact.sh

@@ -68,8 +68,6 @@ def _read_block(path):
     try:
         with open(path) as fh:
             block = json.load(fh).get("basicMemory")
-    except FileNotFoundError:
-        return None
     except Exception:
         return None
     return block if isinstance(block, dict) else None
@@ -97,8 +95,8 @@ def load_settings(directory):
     merged = {}
     home = os.path.expanduser("~")
     sources = [(home, ("settings.json",))]
-    project = _project_dir(directory)
-    if os.path.abspath(project) != home:
+    project = _project_dir(directory)  # already absolute
+    if project != home:
         sources.append((project, ("settings.json", "settings.local.json")))
     for d, names in sources:
         for name in names:

plugins/claude-code/hooks/session-start.sh

@@ -90,8 +90,6 @@ def _read_block(path):
     try:
         with open(path) as fh:
             block = json.load(fh).get("basicMemory")
-    except FileNotFoundError:
-        return None
     except Exception:
         return None
     return block if isinstance(block, dict) else None
@@ -115,8 +113,8 @@ def load_settings(directory):
     found = False
     home = os.path.expanduser("~")
     sources = [(home, ("settings.json",))]
-    project = _project_dir(directory)
-    if os.path.abspath(project) != home:
+    project = _project_dir(directory)  # already absolute
+    if project != home:
         sources.append((project, ("settings.json", "settings.local.json")))
     for d, names in sources:
         for name in names: