Claude Code 2.1.302: prompt tokens jump 39% in a day, system share rises
ClaudeCodeLog · x · 2026-10-17
ClaudeCodeLog's diff of Claude Code 2.1.302 (released 1 day after 2.1.301) shows:
- Prompt size surge: bundle +1,406.7 kB (+2.3%), prompt files +3 (+23.1%), prompt tokens +5,755 (+39.2%)
- Mix shift: tools tokens fell from 71.8% to 58.9% while system tokens rose from 28.2% to 41.1% — the system prompt got notably heavier
- New features: CLAUDECODEAUTOMODEMODEL env var lets users pick the model behind the client-side auto mode classifier (server-side unaffected); /config gains an Idle compaction toggle
- New internal models/identifiers like claude-code-docs and claude-lsremote-K; detected model count 189→190
Data comes from the community reverse-engineering repo claude-code-changelog.
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