{"version":"2.1.301","anchor":"new-prompt-variant-enum-values-for-scratchpad","canonical_anchor":"new-prompt-variant-enum-values-for-scratchpad","heading":"New prompt variants without a scratchpad","tier":"use","area":"System Prompt","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.301\/e\/new-prompt-variant-enum-values-for-scratchpad","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.301","markdown":"### New prompt variants without a scratchpad\n\nThe list of prompt variants Claude Code accepts now includes three options without a scratchpad\n\n**Unclear.** It is not clear whether a user can choose these variants or only the server can.\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code accepts a set of named prompt variants. Three new names are now accepted:\n\n- `no_scratchpad`\n\n- `no_scratchpad_capped`\n\n- `no_scratchpad_keep_asks`\n\nThey join the existing `control`, `lean`, `short`, `short_v2` and `capped`.\n\n**Why**\n\nThese look like variants the server chooses to test, so they may only appear when the server sends them.\n\n- Area: System Prompt\n- Tier: Use it now\n- Useful: 4\/5\n- Signal: 4\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}