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 v2.1.300,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
When a tool call fails and was not interrupted, Claude Code now sets error.type to tool_error on its trace record. A trace is a log of timed steps that monitoring tools can collect.
Why
If you collect traces from Claude Code, you can now filter for failed tool calls.
How sure we are
One source agreesOne thing we can check says the same as this entry.
Anthropic's release notes agreeAdded OpenTelemetry GenAI semantic-convention attributes to trace spans, such as gen_ai.provider.name, gen_ai.conversation.id…