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I've been building a small fitness app with Claude over the last week or so, all in the same claude code window on desktop. On the last few turns today Claude keeps telling me that this is a 'good place to pause' whenever it finishes building some feature.

I've seen people complain about this before on twitter but they seem to be experiencing it after coding for hours on end, so I assumed it was a user welfare thing. Is it the case that Claude has no idea of the timespan that this window has been open and thinks I've been talking to it non-stop? I thought that the time and date were in the system prompt, so it should be able to tell that this has taken place over several days?

Have you been accidentally cueing it into the time somehow? I only get messages like that when I phrase messages in a way that implies something about the passage of time, e.g. "Tonight we're going to work on message parsing: {SPEC}"

5Brendan Long4mo

Last time I checked, Claude Code doesn't see the date or time at all unless it looks it up with CLI tools. I think Claude on the web sees it at the beginning of the conversation and has an MCP tool to look it up mid-conversation. I find it kind of strange that they don't inject this on every turn, but maybe it's not worth the tokens in most conversations.