{"version":"2.1.295","anchor":"web-search-text-citations-filtered-to-web-search-result-loca","canonical_anchor":"web-search-text-citations-filtered-to-web-search-result-loca","heading":"Only web search citations are kept on text from web search answers","tier":"notice","area":"Elsewhere","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.295\/e\/web-search-text-citations-filtered-to-web-search-result-loca","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.295","markdown":"### Only web search citations are kept on text from web search answers\n\nClaude Code now strips every citation from a text block except web search result links when it processes Claude's replies\n\n**What**\n\nA citation is a reference Claude attaches to a piece of its answer to show where the information came from. When Claude Code processes a reply, any text block whose citations include a type other than `web_search_result_location` now has those other citations removed. Citations that point to a web search result are kept.\n\n**Why**\n\nCitation types other than web search results no longer stay in the saved conversation history.\n\n- Area: Elsewhere\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}