{"version":"2.1.314","anchor":"mcp-file-reference-upload-approval","canonical_anchor":"mcp-file-reference-upload-approval","heading":"File uploads to connected services can require approval even for allowed tools","tier":"notice","area":"MCP","scope":"individual","heads_up":true,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.314\/e\/mcp-file-reference-upload-approval","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.314","markdown":"### File uploads to connected services can require approval even for allowed tools\n\nClaude Code has a prompt that asks you to approve uploading a file to a connected service, even when you have already allowed that tool\n\n**Unclear.** The setting that switches this prompt on is not named, so whether it applies to you is unclear.\n\n**What**\n\nMCP servers are outside services connected to Claude Code that give Claude extra tools. Claude Code now has an approval prompt for when Claude uploads a file to one of these services by pointing at the file. It reads:\n\nClaude wants to upload a file to (service name). This upload needs your approval even if you already allowed this tool.\n\nThe prompt appears even if a permission rule already allows the tool. It sits behind a setting that is off unless it is switched on remotely.\n\n**Why**\n\nWhere this applies, an allow rule for a tool is no longer enough for it to send one of your files to an outside service. You are asked each time.\n\n- Area: MCP\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 3\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: yes"}