[FEATURE] Option to suppress or reduce frequency of the "Now you're using usage credits" banner
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Problem Statement
Description:
When a subscription user exhausts their included plan usage and rolls over into extra usage credits, Claude Code shows a persistent "Now you're using usage credits" message at the bottom of the terminal UI. There is currently no way to dismiss it, and no setting or environment variable to disable it.
The problem:
→ The message is persistent for the entire time you're drawing on usage credits, which for heavy users can be most of the working day. After the first occurrence it carries no new information, but it permanently occupies a line of terminal real estate in every session.
→ For users who have deliberately enabled usage credits and are fully aware they're
paying per-token, the constant reminder is noise rather than signal.
→ Other Claude Code notices are configurable (e.g. spinnerTipsEnabled, terminalProgressBarEnabled), but this one has no corresponding setting.
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_Environment: Claude Code CLI on macOS, subscription plan (Max) with extra usage credits enabled._
Proposed Solution
Proposed solutions (either would help):
- Rate-limit the notice — show it once per day (or once per usage window) when the transition into usage credits happens, then hide it, instead of displaying it persistently.
- Make it configurable — add a setting (e.g. usageCreditsNoticeEnabled in settings.json) or an environment variable so users who opted into pay-as-you-go can turn the banner off entirely.
A one-time, dismissible notification at the moment of transition is genuinely useful; a permanent banner is not. Related: #51669 was closed as "not planned," but that asked for more persistent usage display — this request is the opposite: less.
Alternative Solutions
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Priority
Low - Nice to have
Feature Category
CLI commands and flags
Use Case Example
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Additional Context
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