You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
File SystemArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.302,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
Some things that look like files are not ordinary files: a pipe passes data from one program to another, and a device stands for hardware. When Claude Code reads an image from one of these, it now reads only up to a limit. It reports one of two errors:
"Cannot read this as an image" when the input runs past the limit
"File is too large to read as an image" for files that are too big
Why
Reading an image from a pipe or device can no longer hang or pull in unlimited data.