[Bug] Anthropic API Error: Rate Limit Exceeded

Bug Description
rate limit bug

Environment Info

• Platform: darwin
• Terminal: Apple_Terminal
• Version: 2.1.5
• Feedback ID: 007118c9-7848-4938-ad5c-b605508d7556

Errors

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used up a bunch of credits inside of 4 minutes

I burned through alot of credits because claude code got stuck in a loop. Like so:
/rate-limit-options

/rate-limit-options

/rate-limit-options

/rate-limit-options

/rate-limit-options

/rate-limit-options

/rate-limit-options

/rate-limit-options

/rate-limit-options

/rate-limit-options

/rate-limit-options

⎿ You've hit your limit · resets 10am (Asia/Manila)

❯ /rate-limit-options

⏺ That's a known bug in Claude Code's Anthropic Console. When the model hits a rate limit and retries, it keeps calling /rate-limit-options in an infinite loop,
burning through your credit allocation without doing any useful work.

This is an issue on Anthropic's side, not something you caused. I'd recommend:

1. Report it at https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues — include what you shared here so the team can track it.
2. Force quit (Ctrl+C) immediately if you see this loop starting again, rather than waiting for it to resolve itself.
3. Contact Anthropic support about getting a credit refund for the wasted usage, since it was caused by a bug in their tool.

Unfortunately there's nothing you can configure on your end to prevent this behavior — it needs to be fixed in the retry/rate-limit handling logic of the CLI
itself.