Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
HooksArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.275,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
Unclear What the 'reading budget' controls or limits is not stated in the finding.
What
Hooks (custom scripts that can run at points in Claude Code's workflow) are invoked with a new budget accessor available to their execution context, both in normal runs and in .catch error handlers. Separately, Claude Code now detects when a hook produced no downstream calls at all (and wasn't an error handler or a 'hop' handler) and records timing information for that case.
Why
This is internal bookkeeping that gives Claude Code more visibility into hook behavior, particularly hooks that run but never pass control onward, without changing what a hook author needs to do.
How sure we are
Something disagreesSomething we can check disagrees with this entry, or the writer said they could not settle it.
The writer flagged doubtWhat the 'reading budget' controls or limits is not stated in the finding.