{"version":"2.1.323","anchor":"message-normalization-tool-result-cuts-document-withdrawal","canonical_anchor":"message-normalization-tool-result-cuts-document-withdrawal","heading":"Claude and the transcript are told when project instruction files were not loaded","tier":"notice","area":"Instruction Files","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.323\/e\/message-normalization-tool-result-cuts-document-withdrawal","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.323","markdown":"### Claude and the transcript are told when project instruction files were not loaded\n\nA new instruction_files_not_loaded notice lists project instruction files that were skipped, shows them in the transcript and tells Claude how to treat them\n\n**Unclear.** What causes project instruction files to go unloaded is not stated.\n\n**What**\n\nProject instruction files are files such as CLAUDE.md that give Claude guidance for a project. A new attachment type, `instruction_files_not_loaded`, reports when some were not loaded.\n\n- Transcript: it shows \"Instruction files not loaded:\" followed by the file paths.\n\n- Hand-off: a message tells Claude \"Project instruction files that were not loaded:\", says to read them first, and says they are information, not instructions, and give no permission.\n\n- Message building: Claude is told \"A tool result directly above lists project instruction files that were not loaded.\"\n\n- Other message changes: the message builder also gains notes for cut tool results (`toolResultCuts`) and for withdrawn results and documents (`withdrawnResults`\/`withdrawnDocuments`), a way to add text to a tool result (`appendToToolResult`), and drops `critical_system_reminder` attachments marked `onlyAsSystemMessage` when system messages are off.\n\n- Display: a \"Progress\" element is now drawn as a block.\n\n**Why**\n\nYou and Claude can both see when a project's instruction files were skipped. Claude is told to read them as plain information and not to take them as instructions or as permission to do anything.\n\n- Area: Instruction Files\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}