Group of 2 Under the hood
Claude Code now identifies your terminal app and version from its XTVERSION reply and reports it in startup telemetry.
What
- A new classifier reads the raw XTVERSION terminal-identification reply your terminal sends back and matches it against a list of known terminal apps (iTerm2, ghostty, WezTerm, tmux, kitty, and others) plus several version-format patterns.
- If the terminal isn't recognized, it's bucketed as "other"; if there's no reply at all, it's bucketed as "no_reply".
- The result is packaged as an
xtversionfield inside atengu_terminal_probetelemetry event sent at startup.
Why This lets Claude Code understand which terminal emulators and versions people actually use, without sending raw, potentially inconsistent terminal strings — only normalized values reach telemetry.