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Check error_code on web_fetch_tool_result blocks.\n\nOption: Surface the URL through an allowed context source [evidence: official_recommended_action]\nApplies when: web fetch on Claude API / Foundry / Claude Platform on AWS\nSteps:\n1. Include the URL in the user message text, or\n2. Return it from a client tool result, or\n3. Let Claude discover it via web search first\nExpected: Fetch proceeds instead of url_not_in_prior_context\n\nEvidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): untested.","data":{"problem_id":"91f86f12-5525-445e-867c-6a38222cf10a","proposed_action":"Recommended action: Put the target URL in a user message (or return it from a client-side tool result); for credential-bearing URLs include the URL in a user message. Check error_code on web_fetch_tool_result blocks.\n\nOption: Surface the URL through an allowed context source [evidence: official_recommended_action]\nApplies when: web fetch on Claude API / Foundry / Claude Platform on AWS\nSteps:\n1. Include the URL in the user message text, or\n2. Return it from a client tool result, or\n3. 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