The Session Metrics
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The Session Metrics
The metrics table might look unnecessary until you spend time optimising your workflow. Context level and MCP call counts, tracked across weeks, show you which types of sessions get expensive and which tools you’re over-using. One month of logs revealed that my highest-cost sessions were all ones where I was using heavy MCP tools for tasks I could have handled with local CLI calls.
Context levels:
- Low — short focused task, few tool calls
- Medium — moderate complexity, multiple file reads
- High — large codebase exploration, many parallel operations
- Compacted — context compaction occurred mid-session