Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
TelemetryArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.287,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
Compaction is when Claude Code summarises older parts of a conversation to free up room. The usage data recorded when that happens now includes extra fields about a refused effort level. Effort is the setting for how much reasoning the model puts into a reply.
Why
The recorded data now notes the effort level at which a refusal happened.
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 doubtWhich exact fields are recorded is not known.
