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Clearer errors when a database write skips a required version check

Database write, delete, and batch-write tools now give specific guidance when a required if_version was left out, backed by a version_required error code

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Database write, delete, and batch-write tools now give specific guidance when a required if_version was left out, backed by a version_required error code

What

  • Document/database write and delete tools now give a dedicated error message when a change to an existing document was missing a required if_version, distinguishing delete, update, and create/default cases with wording like "this delete carried no if_version — nothing was deleted".
  • The batch-write tool gives the same kind of message, naming the exact write's index and path, and warns that other unpinned writes in the same batch will fail the same way.
  • All these messages tell the model to read_db (or read the document) first, then resend the write with if_version set.
  • A new version_required reason (with a required: true field) is now returned separately from the generic version_mismatch reason, backed by a structured error-detail schema (code, kind, limit, version, index, required).

Why This makes "optimistic concurrency" failures (where a document changed since you last read it) much easier to recover from: instead of a generic version-mismatch error, Claude Code now gets a precise explanation of what went wrong and how to fix it, reducing wasted retries on database writes.

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