Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ContextArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.321,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
Claude Code can reuse earlier work when it tidies the conversation into a standard form before each request to the model. That reuse now has one more setting, auditedRows. Claude Code takes its value from configuration and falls back to a built-in default when none is given.
The setting sits next to the existing safety check, which you can switch on with the environment variable CLAUDE_CODE_NORMALIZE_PREFIX_CACHE_VERIFY (an environment variable is a named setting passed to a program from your shell).
Why
The checking side of this cache is still being worked on. Nothing changes in how you use Claude Code.
