{"version":"2.1.295","anchor":"askuserquestion-description-tightened","canonical_anchor":"askuserquestion-description-tightened","heading":"Stricter guidance on when Claude should stop to ask you a question","tier":"notice","area":"Elsewhere","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.295\/e\/askuserquestion-description-tightened","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.295","markdown":"### Stricter guidance on when Claude should stop to ask you a question\n\nClaude Code includes stricter wording telling Claude to ask you only when it is blocked on a decision that is truly yours to make\n\n**Unclear.** It is not known when the model receives this wording, since the captured stock description did not change.\n\n**What**\n\n`AskUserQuestion` is the tool Claude uses to stop and ask you something. Claude Code now contains wording for its description that tells Claude to use it only when it is blocked on a decision that is genuinely yours to make. It adds that this must be a decision Claude cannot settle from your request, the code, or sensible defaults.\n\nThe stock description of `AskUserQuestion` captured under this release is unchanged since v2.1.294.\n\n**Why**\n\nWhere this wording is used, Claude should interrupt you with clarifying questions less often and fall back on sensible defaults instead.\n\n- Area: Elsewhere\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}