{"version":"2.1.299","anchor":"tengu-slate-wicket-gates-name-validation","canonical_anchor":"tengu-slate-wicket-gates-name-validation","heading":"Stricter rule for which names are accepted","tier":"notice","area":"Internals","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.299\/e\/tengu-slate-wicket-gates-name-validation","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.299","markdown":"### Stricter rule for which names are accepted\n\nClaude Code can now refuse names with hidden or direction-changing characters, < or >, or more than 256 characters\n\n**Unclear.** Exactly which names the rule covers is not stated.\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code has a new, stricter rule for names. It refuses a name that:\n\n- holds hidden, direction-changing or blank-looking characters\n\n- contains `<` or `>`\n\n- is longer than 256 characters\n\nRefusals are written to the log. The rule is controlled by a remote setting, and when the server sends nothing, Claude Code falls back to applying it.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis affects which skill and plugin names Claude Code accepts, so a name with unusual characters may now be refused.\n\n- Flag `tengu_slate_wicket`: 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: on) 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: Internals\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}