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Claude Code v2.1.259 ·

claude-api built-in agent tool access tightened

The built-in claude-api agent lost Read, Grep and Glob and now only has WebFetch scoped to one docs domain.

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You'll notice

The built-in claude-api agent lost Read, Grep and Glob and now only has WebFetch scoped to one docs domain.

The built-in claude-api agent's tool access is narrowed: it previously had Read/Grep/Glob/WebFetch, and now only has WebFetch scoped to platform.claude.com.

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Since it was published

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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