{"version":"2.1.97","anchor":"read-tool-absolute-paths-always-required","canonical_anchor":"read-tool-absolute-paths-always-required","heading":"Read Tool: Absolute Paths Always Required","tier":null,"area":null,"scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.97\/e\/read-tool-absolute-paths-always-required","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.97","markdown":"### Read Tool: Absolute Paths Always Required\n\nThe Read tool documentation now unconditionally requires absolute file paths. The previous conditional behavior (which sometimes allowed relative paths) has been removed for consistency.\n\n**Evidence**\n\nRead tool description change \u2014 removed conditional `qk6()` check, hard-codes `\"must be an absolute path\"` (search for `\"must be an absolute path\"`)"}