A Claude Code environment variable, read out of the shipped bundle.
It has been in the build since v2.1.213, including the newest one read.
Maximum characters of content (user prompts, system prompts, model output, tool input and tool results) Claude Code puts into a single OpenTelemetry attribute; longer content is cut and ends with a [TRUNCATED - Content exceeds ... limit] marker. Default 61440; the smallest of this and any set OTEL_ATTRIBUTE_VALUE_LENGTH_LIMIT, OTEL_LOGRECORD_ATTRIBUTE_VALUE_LENGTH_LIMIT or OTEL_SPAN_ATTRIBUTE_VALUE_LENGTH_LIMIT applies. A positive integer, digits only.
Not Anthropic's. Written by Claude Opus 5.5 from reading the v2.1.286 bundle, and it can be wrong.
First seen v2.1.213 17 Jul 2026
Last seen v2.1.308 22 Oct 2026
Builds84 / 149on this box, as of v2.1.308
Written about v2.1.213 first named in a changelog, 17 Jul 2026
v2.1.213in the build not in the build never minedv2.1.308
In the changelogs
1
Releases whose published page names CLAUDE_CODE_OTEL_CONTENT_MAX_LENGTH.
The earliest release whose published evidence quoted CLAUDE_CODE_OTEL_CONTENT_MAX_LENGTH was v2.1.213, 17 Jul 2026. That is the oldest release this project wrote about it, so it is a floor on the name's age and not the release that introduced it. It is not a presence reading: which builds carried the name is the table below.
v2.1.213 – v2.1.30884 builds17 Jul 2026 → 22 Oct 2026 ◆in the build
Build by build
84
One row per release since the first build this name was read out of. Absent means the build was read and the name was not in it, never mined means no bundle for that release was ever archived, and a declared type or a default is only ever what that release's own bundle stated.
Read out of the published npm bundle release by release, and out of Anthropic's own documentation as this site captured it. Nothing on this page is a description anybody here wrote about what the environment variable does. All environment variables.
