Anthropic ships Claude Code v2.1.300 with advisor tool and OpenTelemetry cache metrics
Anthropic released Claude Code v2.1.300, adding a /advisor command on Claude Platform on AWS, OpenTelemetry attributes including gen_ai.provider.name and cache_creation_5m_tokens and cache_creation_1h_tokens, mod hooks for prompt.change and agent.spawn prompt/model rewriting, plus fixes for cloud sessions, SessionEnd hooks, and subagent task views.
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