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§4TurnNoteHook and permission timings become exact after cctop install.
Turn
What the current turn is actually waiting on — the model, a tool, a hook, a permission prompt, or nothing at all.
Turn duration
reads as
elapsed 2:31
- What it means
- The wall-clock time actually experienced — what you waited for this turn.
- What to do
- Split it against model time, hook time and permission wait below to see where the time really went.
- Measured
- ms · from the transcript · exact · how
API calls
reads as
api 3 calls
- What it means
- How many round-trips to the model happened inside one turn — each one re-sends the entire context.
- What to do
- A turn with many calls often means many small tool round-trips; fewer, larger tool calls usually cost less.
- Measured
- count · from the transcript · exact · how
API time
reads as
api / tools ≈0:02 / 0:46
- What it means
- Time actually spent waiting on the model to respond — the baseline the other overheads are measured against.
- What to do
- Not directly actionable; it's the number everything else in this panel is subtracted from.
- Measured
- ms · from Claude Code's own cost record · the transcript · exact for the session, ≈ per turn · how
Retry time
- What it means
- Time spent on requests that had to be retried — pure waste, since no new work happened during it.
- What to do
- Persistent retries point at a network or rate-limit issue outside a single session's control, but this confirms it wasn't something you did.
- Measured
- ms · from Claude Code's own cost record · exact · how
Phase
- What it means
- The last call's phase over the last seven calls (
phase.rs: EXPLORING / IMPLEMENTING / VERIFYING / COMMITTING / PLANNING / DELEGATING / BROWSING / OPS / WAITING) and its run length; WAITING when a permission dialog, an AskUserQuestion or a Notification is pending
- Measured
- enum · from the transcript · hook events (after cctop install) · exact · how
Last check
- What it means
- The newest test-class Bash call whose output confirmed a run (
test result:, N passed, # pass…), its verdict and age; edits since counts Edit/Write calls after it
- Measured
- enum · from the transcript · exact · how
Waiting on you
- What it means
- A pending permission dialog (hook), a running
AskUserQuestion / ExitPlanMode, an idle_prompt / agent_needs_input notification, or a finished turn whose last text ended with ?; with the wait's duration
- Measured
- enum · from the transcript · hook events (after cctop install) · exact · how
Steers
- What it means
- Human
queued_command attachments folded into the turn (absorbed mid-turn); task notifications are machine turns, not steers
- Measured
- count · from the transcript · exact · how
Interrupts
- What it means
[Request interrupted by user…] lines with interruptedMessageId, and the output tokens the cut turns had produced- Measured
- count · from the transcript · exact · how
Hook time by command
- What it means
stop_hook_summary.hookInfos[].command and hook_success attachments summed per command over the session; preventedContinuation marks a blocked stop- Measured
- ms · from the transcript · exact · how
Goal
- What it means
- The last
goal_status attachment (/goal): met, iterations, tokens
- Measured
- enum · from the transcript · exact · how
Hook runs
reads as
hooks 6 runs
- What it means
- How many hooks fired during the turn — each one runs synchronously and adds to what you wait for.
- What to do
- A turn with unexpectedly many hook runs is worth checking against your hook matchers.
- Advisor
- A16 Hook overhead
- Measured
- count · from the transcript · exact · how
Hook time
reads as
hooks 6 runs · 84 ms
- What it means
- The total time hooks added to this turn, on top of the model's own response time.
- What to do
- A slow hook after tool calls or at the end of a turn should run asynchronously, or match only the tools and paths it actually cares about.
- Advisor
- A16 Hook overhead
- Measured
- ms · from the transcript · hook events (after cctop install) · exact · how
Permission wait
reads as
permission waits 1 · 12 s
- What it means
- Time the model sat completely idle waiting on a permission decision from you.
- What to do
- A tool pattern approved the same way repeatedly is a candidate for the allow-list in your settings, which removes the prompt entirely.
- Advisor
- A09 Permission waits · A45 Denial streak
- Measured
- ms · from hook events (after cctop install) · always an estimate · how
Queued prompts
reads as
queued 0
- What it means
- Prompts you typed while the model was still working on the previous one.
- What to do
- Informational — a growing queue late in a task can mean it's time to interrupt instead of keep queuing.
- Measured
- count · from the transcript · exact · how