Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Context WindowArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.310,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
Tokens are the small pieces of text a model counts when it measures the length of a request. When a request is too long, Claude Code calculates how far over the limit it is. That calculation now also returns the actual number of tokens in the request, instead of only the amount over.
Why
With the actual count available, errors about requests being over the limit can give more detail than just the size of the overshoot.
