What
Claude Code has a built-in skill, a bundle of instructions Claude loads for one kind of job, that answers questions about Claude Code's features and settings. It comes with a list of tools it may use without asking you. That list used to include WebFetch, the tool for fetching web pages, for any website. It now covers only two sites:
Why
The skill's automatic web access is now limited to Claude's documentation. If it tries to fetch a page from anywhere else, you will probably be asked for permission first.
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Whether pages from other sites can still be fetched after you approve a permission prompt is not clear.