{"version":"2.1.248","anchor":"remote-tool-results-can-return-pdfs-and-auto-approval-does-n","canonical_anchor":"remote-tool-results-can-return-pdfs-and-auto-approval-does-n","heading":"Remote tool results can return PDFs, and auto-approval does not count for that tool","tier":"notice","area":"Remote Tools","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.248\/e\/remote-tool-results-can-return-pdfs-and-auto-approval-does-n","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.248","markdown":"### Remote tool results can return PDFs, and auto-approval does not count for that tool\n\nRemote tools can return PDFs Claude reads directly, and require your personal approval.\n\n**What**\n\nA tool that runs on a remote machine can now hand back attached documents alongside its text output, so Claude reads the PDF itself instead of a placeholder line. Only `application\/pdf` is accepted, and each attachment must carry a timestamp, media type and base64 payload. The same tool also gained a message telling the user that an automatic approval does not count for it and that a person must approve from the terminal or the desktop prompt before it runs.\n\n**Details**\n\n- An attachment is converted only if its base64 data decodes to a `%PDF-` header, it is under a size budget, and it matches a text placeholder in the result content.\n- Converted attachments become `{type: \"document\", source: {type: \"base64\", ...}}` blocks in the tool result.\n- Oversized or malformed items are dropped individually, and the rest of the tool result still returns.\n- A display fragment reading \"(a PDF read on \" ships alongside it for showing where the document came from.\n- The approval notice reads that only a person's approval counts in this session, so it was not cleared to run and nothing ran.\n\n**Evidence**\n\n`\"application\/pdf\"`, `only a person's approval counts in this session, so it was not cleared to run and nothing ran`\n\n- Area: Remote Tools\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 4\/5\n- Signal: 4\/5"}