Monthly Maximum GenerateAssistantResponse

## System details (run `AWS: About` and/or `Amazon Q: About`)

- OS: Windows 11
- Visual Studio Code version: 1.95.3
- Amazon Q version: 1.39.0 2024-12-03

## Question

Around the 20th of every month since I started using Q I get:
"An error occurred while processing your request.
This error is reported to the team automatically. We will attempt to fix it as soon as possible.
Details: Maximum com.amazon.aws.codewhisperer.streaming.GenerateAssistantResponse reached for this month."

I understand that you might need to limit usage, and I'm not complaining, but:

1. Is this typical? Do most people get this after ~20 days or am I being excessive?
2. Is this expected? Was the limit chosen with the expectation that it'd run out 3 weeks in, or was it intended to last the whole month?
3. Is there a way to get 30 days' worth?
4. Is there some way to keep track of usage?
5. Is this limit likely to be increased or decreased? This month I got the error 12 days in; was the limit reduced?

When I regained access at the beginning of this month something had changed. Context retention seemed much worse. When I replied to Q's questions I'd very often get 'I apologize, but your request seems to be outside my domain of expertise'. I resorted to copying out the whole question and modifying it (e.g. 'Would you like to...' => 'Yes, I would like to...'). I'm wondering if all this extra typing is part of why I hit the limit earlier?

Adrian Stephens

The issue provides no repository file, test, or entry point to start from; begin by checking how Amazon Q and CodeWhisperer usage-limit errors are surfaced in the VS Code extension. Done would require a maintainer-confirmed explanation of the monthly limit, usage tracking, and context behavior, or a concrete scope for a fix.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.