{"version":"2.1.299","anchor":"media-byte-cap-reworked-with-new-gates-tengu-keen-pudding-an","canonical_anchor":"media-byte-cap-reworked-with-new-gates-tengu-keen-pudding-an","heading":"Size limits for images and other media are now set differently","tier":"notice","area":"Images","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.299\/e\/media-byte-cap-reworked-with-new-gates-tengu-keen-pudding-an","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.299","markdown":"### Size limits for images and other media are now set differently\n\nThe size limit on images and media sent to the model now comes from new remote settings, with checks and a separate second limit\n\n**Unclear.** The actual limits, and which setups get the second limit, are not settled.\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code limits how many bytes of images and other media it sends to the model. The limit can come from Anthropic's servers, and how it is worked out has changed:\n\n- The limit is now read from a new remote setting, falling back to the previous one.\n\n- The value must be 0 or at least twice a fixed amount.\n\n- Some setups have the limit raised to a minimum.\n\n- A second limit is 0 unless a platform check passes, and otherwise comes from another remote setting or a default.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis changes how large an image or other media file can be when it is sent.\n\n- Flag `tengu_media_byte_cap`: Not enough to say (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.299; this account: no value returned, anonymous baseline: no value returned, compiled default: not a boolean we can read) These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.\n- Area: Images\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}