{"version":"2.1.302","anchor":"system-prompt-environment-section-reworked","canonical_anchor":"system-prompt-environment-section-reworked","heading":"The environment details sent to Claude are now built a different way","tier":"internal","area":"Elsewhere","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.302\/e\/system-prompt-environment-section-reworked","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.302","markdown":"### The environment details sent to Claude are now built a different way\n\nThe part of Claude's instructions that describes your environment can now take its contents from a single source\n\n**Unclear.** Whether the environment details Claude receives actually differ is not known.\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code gives Claude a set of instructions at the start of a conversation, including a section describing your environment. The items in that section can now come from a single list. If that list is not available, Claude Code falls back to combining the items it used before.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis may change the environment details Claude is given.\n\n- Area: Elsewhere\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}