Claude Code Silently Burns 40% More Tokens Since v2.1.100

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A developer used an HTTP proxy to capture full API requests across four Claude Code versions and found that v2.1.100 adds roughly 20,000 invisible server-side tokens to every request - inflating billing by 40% with no user visibility.

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