You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ElsewhereArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.275,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
Before checking how much of your usage limit you've used, Claude Code now first looks at a recently cached local snapshot. If that snapshot is less than 60 seconds old and no newer usage information has come in since, it answers from that cached value and skips calling the server entirely, logging a message noting how old the snapshot was.
Why
This avoids unnecessary network requests when the usage information is already known to be fresh, making usage checks faster and lighter without affecting accuracy.