Weekly usage percentage is stale — no way to know how much allowance is left
Environment: Claude Code desktop app, macOS, paid subscription.
What happened. I finished work in the evening and shut the laptop. The weekly usage indicator read 80%. I opened the laptop the next morning and it read 96%. Nothing ran in between: the app was closed, and my session logs show the last activity at 22:58 and the next at 09:37, with nothing between them.
Why this is a problem. That percentage is the only number I have for rationing a week of engineering work. If it lags by hours, then at the moment I'm deciding whether to start something expensive, I don't actually know what's left. I found out mine was off by sixteen points only because I happened to look twice.
What support confirmed. I raised this with support and was told, correctly, that a rolling 7-day window can only decrease while idle, and that the jump indicates the counter catching up on usage already incurred. So the figure is eventually consistent. Nothing in the interface says so — a bare percentage reads as current.
Steps to reproduce.
- Run a large batch of work (in my case a multi-agent run, ~7.5M tokens).
- Note the weekly percentage.
- Close the app.
- Reopen it hours later without doing anything.
- Compare the two readings.
What would fix it:
- A "last updated" timestamp next to the percentage.
- Or show pending, not-yet-accounted usage separately.
- Either way, state whether the number is authoritative or approximate.
Unrelated, but found while checking: ~/.claude/telemetry holds 10,853 events that failed to send, 23 MB, the newest from today. The queue looks stuck. Flagging in case it isn't just me.