{"version":"2.1.285","anchor":"tool-use-summary-helper-marked-toolfreehelper-new-tooldenia","canonical_anchor":"tool-use-summary-helper-marked-toolfreehelper-new-tooldenia","heading":"Tool summaries marked as tool-free helper requests, and more detail on denied prompts","tier":"internal","area":"Telemetry","url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.285\/e\/tool-use-summary-helper-marked-toolfreehelper-new-tooldenia","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.285","markdown":"### Tool summaries marked as tool-free helper requests, and more detail on denied prompts\n\nRequests that write short summaries of tool use are now marked as tool-free helpers, and usage reports on denials note unanswered prompts\n\n**Unclear.** It is not clear whether marking the summary request as tool-free changes how that request runs, or only how it is labelled.\n\n**What**\n\nTwo small internal changes, neither of which changes anything you see or do:\n\n- Tool-use summaries: Claude Code sometimes writes a short summary of the tool calls it has made (a tool call is one action, such as reading a file or running a command). The background request that writes that summary is now labelled as a helper request that uses no tools itself.\n\n- Denied permission prompts: when you are asked to allow a tool call and it ends up denied, the usage data Claude Code reports now records whether that prompt went unanswered.\n\n**Why**\n\nBoth changes add detail to how Claude Code labels its own background requests and records denied permission prompts.\n\n- Area: Telemetry\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5"}