{"version":"2.1.299","anchor":"document-byte-cap-added-to-media-stripping","canonical_anchor":"document-byte-cap-added-to-media-stripping","heading":"Old PDFs in a conversation can now be stripped under their own size limit","tier":"notice","area":"Context Management","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.299\/e\/document-byte-cap-added-to-media-stripping","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.299","markdown":"### Old PDFs in a conversation can now be stripped under their own size limit\n\nWhen Claude Code removes old media from a long conversation, it can now apply a separate size limit to documents such as PDFs\n\n**What**\n\nIn long conversations Claude Code removes older images and documents from what it sends to the model once they pass a size limit. Before, one byte limit covered all media together. Now there can also be a separate limit just for documents such as PDFs, with their size tracked on their own. Images still use the existing limit.\n\nThe document limit stays off unless a limit is passed in.\n\n**Why**\n\nIn long sessions where you share many PDFs, older ones may be dropped from the conversation once the document limit is reached, so Claude may no longer see them.\n\n- Area: Context Management\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}