{"version":"2.1.283","anchor":"remote-session-metadata-now-carries-cumulative-cost-and-toke","canonical_anchor":"remote-session-metadata-now-carries-cumulative-cost-and-toke","heading":"Remote session details now include running cost and token totals","tier":"notice","area":"Sessions","url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.283\/e\/remote-session-metadata-now-carries-cumulative-cost-and-toke","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.283","markdown":"### Remote session details now include running cost and token totals\n\nThe information Claude Code reports about a remote session now includes total cost in US dollars and total token counts, updated as cost changes\n\n**Unclear.** It is not clear which kinds of session send these totals.\n\n**What**\n\nThe information Claude Code reports about a remote session (a session viewed or run from somewhere other than your own terminal) now carries running totals whenever the cost changes:\n\n- `cumulative_cost_usd`, the total spend so far in US dollars\n\n- total input tokens (tokens are the small chunks of text the model reads and writes)\n\n- total output tokens\n\n- total tokens read from the cache\n\n- total tokens written to the cache\n\n**Why**\n\nThis lets a remote or web view of a session show how much the session is spending as it happens.\n\n- Area: Sessions\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5"}