{"version":"2.1.314","anchor":"tengu-imperative-whistle-new-remote-config-object-gating-to","canonical_anchor":"tengu-imperative-whistle-new-remote-config-object-gating-to","heading":"Server-set options for project file reads: a read-only hint and a size budget","tier":"soon","area":"File Mentions","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.314\/e\/tengu-imperative-whistle-new-remote-config-object-gating-to","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.314","markdown":"### Server-set options for project file reads: a read-only hint and a size budget\n\nProject file reads gained a remotely set hint that the offloaded local_file is read-only and a size budget, both off unless the server sends settings\n\n**What**\n\nWhen a project file is too large to include in full, Claude Code can hand back a `local_file` pointer in its place. Claude Code now has a group of options for this that only Anthropic's server can set:\n\n- Read-only hint: a longer note telling Claude that the `local_file` is read-only. It appears only when the server turns on a copy hint, and in some cases a long-lines option too.\n\n- Size budget: a limit on how much file content is included, set by a mode (`always` or `after_compaction`, where compaction means shortening the conversation to save space) and by fraction and share values.\n\nWhen the server sends nothing, both do nothing.\n\n**Why**\n\nThese let Anthropic adjust how much of a project file is read inline, and what Claude is told about the offloaded copy, without a new release. Until the server sends settings, project file reads work as before.\n\n- Flag `tengu_imperative_whistle`: Off in both readings (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.314; this account: off, anonymous baseline: off, compiled default: not a boolean we can read) 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.\n- Area: File Mentions\n- Tier: Nothing to try yet\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no\n- Present in the build but not switched on"}