🐛 How to ignore biome.json files in non-root directories

[ahaoboy]

Environment information

biome rage
CLI:
  Version:                      1.9.4
  Color support:                true

Platform:
  CPU Architecture:             x86_64
  OS:                           windows

Environment:
  BIOME_LOG_PATH:               unset
  BIOME_LOG_PREFIX_NAME:        unset
  BIOME_CONFIG_PATH:            unset
  NO_COLOR:                     unset
  TERM:                         "xterm-256color"
  JS_RUNTIME_VERSION:           unset
  JS_RUNTIME_NAME:              unset
  NODE_PACKAGE_MANAGER:         unset

Biome Configuration:
  Status:                       Loaded successfully
  Formatter disabled:           false
  Linter disabled:              false
  Organize imports disabled:    false
  VCS disabled:                 true

Workspace:
  Open Documents:               0

What happened?

├── biome.json
├── dist-manifest
│   └── biome.json

This is not a configuration file, but it will report errors when formatting and linting.
dist-manifest/biome.json

{
  "artifacts": {
    "https://github.com/biomejs/biome/releases/latest/download/biome-linux-x64": {
      "name": "biome",
      "target_triples": ["x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"],
      "assets": []
    }
}

  × Found an unknown key `artifacts`.

    1 │ {
  > 2 │   "artifacts": {
      │   ^^^^^^^^^^^

Expected result

Only detect biome.json in the root directory

Code of Conduct

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[ahaoboy]

Add file to ignore doesn't work

  "files": {
    "ignore": [
      "./dist-manifest/biome.json",

[github-actions]

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[ahaoboy]

https://github.com/ahaoboy/biome-repro-1737690654279

[ematipico]

It's not actually possible not at the moment. Those are well known files to Biome, they are treated differently to provide errors in case they are incorrect. Have you tried to ignore the folder? The other alternative is to rename the file.

In this particular case, it would be possible to ignore it because it's not in the root, I don't know if it will be possible in a monorepo case.

[ahaoboy]

It's not actually possible not at the moment. Those are well known files to Biome, they are treated differently to provide errors in case they are incorrect. Have you tried to ignore the folder? The other alternative is to rename the file.

In this particular case, it would be possible to ignore it because it's not in the root, I don't know if it will be possible in a monorepo case.

Does this mean, we can't use biome.json in our project?

I tried adding biome.json to ignore, but the problem persists

"files": {
   "ignore": ["src/biome.json"]
}