{"version":"2.1.299","anchor":"usage-insights-add-four-new-suggestion-cards","canonical_anchor":"usage-insights-add-four-new-suggestion-cards","heading":"Usage breakdown gives advice on four more cost drivers","tier":"notice","area":"Usage","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.299\/e\/usage-insights-add-four-new-suggestion-cards","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.299","markdown":"### Usage breakdown gives advice on four more cost drivers\n\nThe usage breakdown now flags max effort, workflows, always-on context over 40k tokens and tool results over 10k tokens, with advice\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code's usage breakdown, which shows what your usage went on, now tracks and comments on four more things:\n\n- Max effort: the share of your usage spent at the `max` effort level\n\n- Workflows: the share spent on workflows, which split a task across many agents that each send their own requests\n\n- Always-on context over 40k tokens: the share spent on context loaded at the start of every request, when it is larger than 40,000 tokens (a token is a small chunk of text)\n\n- Tool results over 10k tokens: the share spent on outputs from tools that are larger than 10,000 tokens\n\nEach has its own headline and a piece of advice, pointing to `\/effort` to change the effort level or `\/context` to see what is filling the context.\n\n**Why**\n\nYou get specific pointers on what is driving your usage and which command to reach for to bring it down.\n\n- Area: Usage\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 3\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}