You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ElsewhereArea: what it touches
RemovedKind: in v2.1.314,
RemovedSection of the release
What
When the WebFetch tool reads a web page, Claude Code builds instructions telling the model how to answer about the page. Those instructions could include a word limit between 50 and 5000, added as "Keep the response under N words". That option has been removed.
This is separate from the tool's own description. In the capture taken under this release, that description is 1,608 characters and unchanged since v2.1.312.
Why
One control over how long web page answers run is gone.
