Claude Max + Claude Code rate limits exhausting abnormally fast / possible metering bug

Bug Description
Subject

Claude Max + Claude Code rate limits exhausting abnormally fast / possible metering bug

Message

I’m on a Claude Max plan and I’m seeing abnormal usage/rate-limit behavior in Claude Code that did not happen before.

Environment:

• Claude Max plan
• Claude Code versions involved: 2.1.83 through 2.1.88
• Timezone: Asia/Riyadh
• OS: Windows

What happened:

• On 2026-03-31, two separate Claude Code conversations hit rate limits almost immediately.
• In one of those sessions, /context showed only 32.3k / 1m tokens (3%) and MCP tools were shown as loaded on-demand, but the session still immediately returned:

"You're out of extra usage · resets 2pm (Asia/Riyadh)"

• A second short/trivial session also immediately returned the same rate_limit behavior.

Important context:

• I do have an earlier heavier session that used claude-in-chrome__computer repeatedly.
• In that long session, /context later showed:

mcp__claude-in-chrome__computer using 2.3m tokens (225%) -> save ~450.3k

• However, that same /context snapshot still showed only about 647.1k / 1m tokens (65%) as active context.
• That makes it look like the browser-tool warning is cumulative/session-attributed usage, not one live prompt of that size.

Why I think this may be a bug/regression:

• The two later sessions were fresh/low-context and still rate-limited immediately.
• This is inconsistent with what the visible context showed. …

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