anthropics / anthropics/claude-code
[BUG] Continuing from a session limit hit causes 45% of immediate quota usage (Fable 5.1)
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Description
### Preflight Checklist
- [x] I have searched [existing issues](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3Abug) and this hasn't been reported yet
- [x] This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs)
- [x] I am using the latest version of Claude Code
### What's Wrong?
When I hit the limits with Fable 5.1 and I have the auto-resume feature on, even asking a simple question causes immediate burn of ~half of the quota.
I assume this has something to do with cache being automatically invalidated after 5 hours of wait and this causing high usage; still it's very frustrating to wait 5 hours just to lose most of the quota immediately.
### What Should Happen?
If this is indeed a cache issue Claude code should probably warn the user and ask if they want an auto-compacting before execution, this could save a lot of usage.
### Error Messages/Logs
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### Steps to Reproduce
1) Have a long session that uses Fable 5.1 on a Max plan ~500-600K tokens
2) Hit the quota
3) Prepare & send a simple message like "stop whatever you were doing and give me a short wrap up message, make sure not to burn any token"
4) Wait and observe most of the quota disappear
### Claude Model
Other
### Is this a regression?
No, this never worked
### Last Working Version
_No response_
### Claude Code Version
2.1.263
### Platform
Other
### Operating System
Ubuntu/Debian Linux
### Terminal/Shell
Other
### Additional Information
_No response_
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Research direction
No source file, test, or entry point is identified. Start by reproducing the quota jump with auto-resume after a Fable 5.1 session limit, then trace the continuation and cache behavior; done would require a defined, verified outcome for quota usage or user warning.
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Assessment
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100