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Bash tool description can be given a custom list of preferred tools

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Bash Tool

The Bash tool's advice about preferred tools can be replaced with a custom list.

What

The Bash tool's instructions to the model now accept a list of tool overrides. When a caller supplies one, the usual "avoid running find, grep, cat and similar" warning is replaced by a message tailored to that list; with no override, a separate check decides whether the standard warning appears at all.

Details
  • The override only takes effect if the caller passes a non-empty list, and which callers do so is not settled in this build.
Evidence

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Related

Other releases about the same thing. Found by shared names or similar wording; neither means one caused the other.

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