You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ImagesArea: what it touches
Bug FixesKind: in v2.1.284,
Bug FixesSection of the release
Unclear It is not known whether images arriving by other routes than prompt submission get the same check.
What
When a prompt includes an image, Claude Code now checks the image before resizing it. If the image is malformed, it is replaced with a text note reading "[Image could not be processed: ...]" and the turn carries on. This covers an image that:
has no source data attached
has source data that is not in the expected form
has a file type that is not written as text
contains data that cannot be decoded
fails during resizing
Before, most of these cases stopped the turn with an error.
Why
This matters most for programs that drive Claude Code and send it messages directly, for example through the SDK (the toolkit developers use to build on Claude Code). A bad image block from such a program now costs one image rather than the whole turn.
How sure we are
Something disagreesSomething we can check disagrees with this entry, or the writer said they could not settle it.
The writer flagged doubtIt is not known whether images arriving by other routes than prompt submission get the same check.
