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Web fetching capped at 15 turns and runs in the foreground

Web fetching is capped at 15 turns and runs in the foreground unless you background it.

You'll notice New Features
JSON All of v2.1.251
You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Web FetchArea: what it touches
New FeaturesKind: in v2.1.251,
New FeaturesSection of the release
What

The built-in web-fetching helper is now bounded to 15 turns, where its configuration previously set no cap. Its instructions were also reframed: it runs in the foreground and returns its report as the tool result, and backgrounding is now the exception you opt into with run_in_background: true when you have independent work to do meanwhile.

Details
  • Live for everyone using the web-fetch tool; no gate.
Evidence

maxTurns: 15

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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Names in the bundlerun_in_background

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