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Claude Code v2.1.257 ·

WebFetch of Artifacts now asks confirmation before reading content owned by others

WebFetch now asks before pulling in an artifact owned by someone else, and denies artifacts from another org.

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WebFetch now asks before pulling in an artifact owned by someone else, and denies artifacts from another org.

When WebFetch retrieves an artifact URL not already covered by an allow rule, Claude Code now checks artifact ownership. If the artifact belongs to someone else, or ownership can't be confirmed, the user is asked to confirm before the content enters the conversation; artifacts from another org are denied outright per OTHER_ORG_DENY.

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The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.

Added since A small documentation edit on Environment variables touched a line naming WebFetch after this was published. | `CLAUDE_CODE_WEBFETCH_DEADLINE_MS` | Upper bound in milliseconds on how long [WebFetch](/docs/en/tools-reference#webfetch-tool-behavior) waits for a page to download, including any redirects it follows. A download that hasn't completed b… env-vars see the edit
Confirmed since Anthropic's documentation has since written up WebFetch, on Archive Session. - `BetaManagedAgentsWebFetchToolConfig object` api/beta/sessions/archive see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation agreesAnthropic's documentation has since written up WebFetch, on Archive Session.

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