{"version":"2.1.301","anchor":"lean-rewrite-variants-of-the-askuserquestion-prompt-and-memo","canonical_anchor":"lean-rewrite-variants-of-the-askuserquestion-prompt-and-memo","heading":"Rewritten question-tool and memory instructions prepared but not in use","tier":"soon","area":"Tool Prompts","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.301\/e\/lean-rewrite-variants-of-the-askuserquestion-prompt-and-memo","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.301","markdown":"### Rewritten question-tool and memory instructions prepared but not in use\n\nClaude Code can now choose rewritten instructions for AskUserQuestion and for memory upkeep, but the rewritten versions were not seen in use\n\n**What**\n\nThe instructions Claude gets for AskUserQuestion, the tool it uses to ask you a question with choices, can now be picked from four versions instead of one per tool set. A rewritten pair is used only when a shortened-instructions mode is on and a model check also agrees. The instructions about keeping Claude's memory tidy can also switch to a rewritten form.\n\nThe two remotely controlled pieces of extra text for these instructions add nothing when Claude Code's server sends no value. The instructions Claude was seen receiving did not change, and the captured AskUserQuestion description in this release is the same length as in the previous capture.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis is preparation for a rewritten set of instructions. It could change how Claude asks questions and handles memory once the rewritten versions are selected for a model.\n\n- Flag `tengu_cinder_plover`: Not enough to say (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.301; 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- Flag `tengu_cinder_wren`: Not enough to say (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.301; 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: Tool Prompts\n- Tier: Nothing to try yet\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 4\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no\n- Present in the build but not switched on"}