{"version":"2.1.299","anchor":"webfetch-guidance-text-for-urls","canonical_anchor":"webfetch-guidance-text-for-urls","heading":"New guidance tells Claude which web addresses to fetch","tier":"notice","area":"Elsewhere","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.299\/e\/webfetch-guidance-text-for-urls","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.299","markdown":"### New guidance tells Claude which web addresses to fetch\n\nNew instruction text says `WebFetch` is for links you gave or a tool returned, and that recalled or edited links may need approval\n\n**Unclear.** Whether this text is actually shown to the model during a session is not clear.\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code now contains a new piece of instruction text for the model about `WebFetch`, the tool that downloads a web page. It says the tool is meant for web addresses the person provided or that an earlier tool result returned. Addresses the model recalls from memory, or edits itself, may need your approval or may be rejected.\n\nThe stock description of `WebFetch`, as captured under this release, is unchanged.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis text is meant to steer which links Claude tries to open on its own.\n\n- Area: Elsewhere\n- Names: `WebFetch`\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}