Follow Discord
Sweep 27 Oct 2026 · 19:04Z Build v2.1.312 531 read Stable v2.1.308 Latest v2.1.312 Next v2.1.312 Feeds RSS JSON llms.txt llms-full.txt Unofficial

Claude Code v2.1.311 ·

Long project texts are cut to fit and saved to files, and failed saves no longer fall back to inline text

Behind a flag, attached-project texts are trimmed with the rest saved to a file, and project docs that cannot be saved now fail instead of being inlined

Group of 2 You'll notice Improvements
JSON All of v2.1.311
You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ProjectsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.311,
ImprovementsSection of the release

Unclear It is not clear whether project_info's saving to a file is also behind the server-controlled setting or always applies.

What

When a project is attached to a session, its name, description and instructions (prompt_template) are sent to the model. This release changes how long project texts are handled:

  • Trimming (behind the tengu_proud_firefly flag, which has not been read): project name, description and prompt_template are cut to a size limit when they are too long. A note is added saying the project_info tool can provide a file holding the full text. Without the flag, the texts are sent whole.
  • project_info files: project_info now writes a long description and instructions to a local_file, splitting long lines at 450 characters. It now builds name, description and instructions with a shared helper.
  • Large project docs: reads of large project documents go to a local_file, and documents with very long lines are handled separately.
  • No more inline fallback: if saving a project document to a file fails, the helper now returns a failure (not_stored or write_failed). Before, it returned the whole document inline. The warning now reads Projects tool: could not save a text of ${n} bytes to a file.
  • Write guards: the tengu_lovely_rain and tengu_toasty_owl write guards are still behind flags. v2.1.310 built tengu_lovely_rain off by default; no reading has been taken for it under this release, and nothing has been read about tengu_toasty_owl.

Why

Large projects take up less of the conversation's working memory, and the model is told where to find the rest. Watch for large document reads that now fail outright where they used to arrive in full.

Read from
Feature flag
tengu_proud_firefly Not enough to say

Nothing here resolved what this flag was doing on this version, so nothing here should be read as on or off.

This account: no value returned · anonymous baseline: no value returned · compiled default in v2.1.311: off

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.

Read once, for one account on one subscription tier, against v2.1.311. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you

How sure we are
Something disagreesSomething we can check disagrees with this entry, or the writer said they could not settle it.
The writer flagged doubtIt is not clear whether project_info's saving to a file is also behind the server-controlled setting or always applies.
The name it cites is new in this buildNew in this build: tengu_proud_firefly

See this entry in the whole of v2.1.311 →

Feedback