[BUG] Parabolic Usage Spike June 20, 2026 7pm PT

Preflight Checklist

• [x] I have searched existing issues 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?

I have been using Claude Coder for a month now in VS Code and up until yesterday I hadn't come close to hitting a rate limit. If I hit 10% of a 5 hour or weekly rate limit, that would have been high. Since my usage reset yesterday at 7pm, I hit a 5 hour rate limit in 2 hours and this morning I opened a new session and hit 25% of a 5 hour limit in 14 minutes. You're now telling me I've "used" 14% of my weekly limit in under 3 hours, according to your platform! This is not even possible.

When I set up the account I minimized every setting imaginable (Claude recommendations) to limit usage and have had zero issues. Until yesterday at 7pm I probably never hit even 10% of my usage limit. Now as of 7pm yesterday, June 20, the usage has gone parabolic.

What Should Happen?

Fix the problem. It's a mathematical impossibility to use 14% of a weekly limit in 3 hours. I haven't hit 14% in a whole week. Something is fundamentally broken and it needs to be fixed stat. I don't work inside your organization so I can't tell you what the solution is, but there definitely needs to be one and it needs to happen pronto.

Error Messages/Logs

Steps to Reproduce

Open a new session.
Write a prompt.
Repeat for 14 minutes.
Look at my usage.
Scratch my head in shock.

Claude Model

Opus

Is this a regression?

Yes, this worked in a previous version

Last Working Version

_No response_

Claude Code Version

2.1.145

Platform

Other

Operating System

Windows

Terminal/Shell

PowerShell

Additional Information

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