{"version":"2.1.290","anchor":"new-elapsed-time-reminder-attachment","canonical_anchor":"new-elapsed-time-reminder-attachment","heading":"Claude can be told how much time has passed since your last prompt","tier":"notice","area":"System Reminders","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.290\/e\/new-elapsed-time-reminder-attachment","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.290","markdown":"### Claude can be told how much time has passed since your last prompt\n\nA reminder reading \"Elapsed time so far\" can be added to Claude's context, with the clock restarting each time you send a prompt\n\n**Unclear.** What the feature check falls back to when nothing is sent was not settled.\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code can now add a short reminder to the context, the material the model reads along with your messages, saying how long it has been working, in the form \"Elapsed time so far: 3m 05s\". The clock restarts every time you send a prompt.\n\nThe reminder runs only when a feature check allows it. If that check fails, Claude Code treats the reminder as switched off.\n\n**Why**\n\nThe model gets a sense of real elapsed time, which it otherwise has no way to know.\n\n- Area: System Reminders\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 3\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}