The Edit tool is how Claude changes a file. Claude reads a description that explains how to use each tool. Claude Code used to carry an alternative version of the Edit tool's description, which told Claude to read a file outside the working folder before editing it. That alternative has been removed. The standard Edit description is unchanged.
The Edit instructions are simpler, with one fewer variant.
tengu_edit_minimalanchor_jrn Not enough to sayNothing here resolved what this flag was doing on this version, so nothing here should be read as on or off.
This account: no value returned · anonymous baseline: no value returned · compiled default in v2.1.285: off
These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.
Read once, for one account on one subscription tier, against v2.1.285. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you
The standard Edit description did not change, so it is unclear which setups ever saw the wording that was removed.