{"version":"2.1.307","anchor":"read-file-as-written-capability-advertised-only-when-a-gate","canonical_anchor":"read-file-as-written-capability-advertised-only-when-a-gate","heading":"A new file-reading capability is offered only when policy allows it","tier":"internal","area":"Agents","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.307\/e\/read-file-as-written-capability-advertised-only-when-a-gate","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.307","markdown":"### A new file-reading capability is offered only when policy allows it\n\nClaude Code can now offer a read_file as_written capability, but never to HIPAA organizations or before usage policy is known, and only when switched on\n\n**Unclear.** It is not clear what the read_file as_written capability lets a connected client do.\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code now decides whether to offer a capability called `read_file as_written` to the session. A capability is a feature the session announces as available to whatever is connected to it. It is listed next to another new capability that passes along the progress of commands.\n\nThe capability is not offered when:\n\n- The organization is marked as a HIPAA organization\n\n- Claude Code has not yet received the organization's policy limits from the server\n\nOtherwise it still depends on a setting that is off unless it is switched on remotely. The first time it is refused, Claude Code writes a note saying it is not served.\n\n**Why**\n\nThe capability stays unavailable by default, and HIPAA organizations do not get it even when it is switched on.\n\n- Area: Agents\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}