Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ElsewhereArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.281,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
At the end of each turn Claude Code estimates how much of the conversation's space is used. When that estimate takes longer than its time limit, the late result is now applied with an after_boundary marker. The debug message about the slow estimate is unchanged.
Why
A slow estimate is now handled differently when it finally arrives.
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 doubtThe finding does not say what `after_boundary` changes about how the late estimate is used.
