Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Context ManagementArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.290,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
Unclear What triggers the exclusion, and exactly what each of the three values covers, is not clear.
What
Claude Code can give a task a token budget, which caps how much text it may process. The tracker for that budget can now leave out the tokens taken up by the starting context, meaning the material a task begins with. When it does, it reports that in its usage data.
The new CLAUDE_CODE_CALM_MOCHI environment variable, also controlled by a server setting, takes one of three values:
That value decides whether a subagent's budget sits on top of its starting context. A subagent is a helper Claude starts to work on part of a task. When the server sends nothing, the value is none.
Why
This changes how much room a subagent or forked task has before it hits its budget.
How sure we are
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The writer flagged doubtWhat triggers the exclusion, and exactly what each of the three values covers, is not clear.
