Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
TelemetryArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.285,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
Telemetry is the usage data Claude Code sends back to Anthropic. A headless run is one without the interactive screen, for example when a script drives Claude Code. Speed data from these runs used to record one overhead figure and one time-to-first-response per turn. It now also records figures for each round of requests within a turn, including:
query_round_count, the number of rounds
query_overhead_total_ms, the total overhead in milliseconds
time_to_first_response_first_round_ms, how long the first round took to start answering
The event recorded after a successful model request also gains an overhead figure and a breakdown of time not covered elsewhere.
Why
This lets Anthropic measure delays in turns that make several requests to the model. It does not change how Claude Code behaves for you.
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 doubtIt is not clear whether this data is sent for every run or only for a sample.