{"version":"2.1.285","anchor":"write-tool-description-no-longer-mentions-outside-working-di","canonical_anchor":"write-tool-description-no-longer-mentions-outside-working-di","heading":"Write tool instructions drop a separate warning for files outside your project folder","tier":"internal","area":"Elsewhere","url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.285\/e\/write-tool-description-no-longer-mentions-outside-working-di","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.285","markdown":"### Write tool instructions drop a separate warning for files outside your project folder\n\nThe Write tool's instructions no longer carry a special warning about files outside the working directory and simply say overwriting an unread file fails\n\n**Unclear.** It is not clear when the removed wording was shown, since the stock Write description captured under this release is unchanged from the previous one, and whether the tool itself behaves differently.\n\n**What**\n\nThe Write tool is how Claude creates or replaces a file. Its instructions to Claude used to include a variant saying that overwriting an existing file outside the working directory (the folder Claude Code was started in) would fail if Claude had not read it first. That variant is gone. The instructions now always say that overwriting an existing file Claude has not read will fail, with no mention of where the file lives.\n\n**Why**\n\nThe instructions Claude sees for writing files are simpler, with one rule instead of a separate case for files outside your project folder.\n\n- Area: Elsewhere\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5"}