[BUG] Account usage percentage grows while Claude Desktop sits idle
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- [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?
What's Wrong?
My account's weekly plan quotas and session usage limits are actively draining and increasing over time while the application sits completely idle. No prompts or commands are running.
This is a severe account allocation bug where your background synchronization loop with the standalone GitHub connector is continuously reprocessing context on your servers. It is burning through my paid subscription hours without any active user interaction.
This matches the behavior reported in Anthropic Bug #53378 and Bug #67587 regarding abnormal passive quota consumption.
What Should Happen?
Claude Desktop and its associated local-agent server should completely enter a low-power, dormant state when no user prompts or terminal tasks are actively executing. Background sync handlers should pause or back off entirely to ensure that an idle session never continuously indexes context or burns through the account's paid weekly compute plan limits.
Error Messages/Logs
Steps to Reproduce
How to Reproduce
- Check the Claude Code account usage metrics page (note the current weekly usage percentage).
- Leave the Claude Desktop application running completely idle with a standalone GitHub connector active. Do not type any prompts.
- Check the usage metrics page 1 to 2 hours later. The weekly plan and session resource meters will have jumped significantly despite zero model interaction.
Expected Behavior
Idle background indexing or token synchronization should never consume rolling session quotas or weekly compute hour caps. Usage meters must only tick when the user explicitly triggers an active prompt or execution task.
Claude Model
Opus
Is this a regression?
I don't know
Last Working Version
_No response_
Claude Code Version
2.1.226 (via Claude Desktop)
Platform
Anthropic API
Operating System
Windows
Terminal/Shell
Windows Terminal
Additional Information
_No response_