{"version":"2.1.299","anchor":"project-docs-edit-prompt-mentions-if-version","canonical_anchor":"project-docs-edit-prompt-mentions-if-version","heading":"Project document edits can carry a version check","tier":"soon","area":"Projects","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.299\/e\/project-docs-edit-prompt-mentions-if-version","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.299","markdown":"### Project document edits can carry a version check\n\nIn some cases Claude is told to pass back a document's version as `if_version` when saving a project document\n\n**Unclear.** It is not clear what switches on these version-check instructions.\n\n**What**\n\nWhen a certain setting is on, the instructions for the Projects tool tell Claude to take the `version` it got when reading a project document and pass it back as `if_version` when writing the document. Before, the instructions only said to write the full content back.\n\n**Why**\n\nA version check like this lets a save be refused if the document changed since Claude read it, instead of overwriting someone else's edit.\n\n- Area: Projects\n- Names: `if_version`\n- Tier: Nothing to try yet\n- Useful: 3\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no\n- Present in the build but not switched on"}