autoContinueAtUsageLimit
A Claude Code settings key, read out of the shipped bundle. It was in the build from v2.1.234 and was gone by v2.1.284.
Wait in the open session and continue the task automatically after a claude.ai usage limit resets
Anthropic's own wording. Read off All settings, captured 2026-10-22.
In the changelogs
2Releases whose published page names autoContinueAtUsageLimit.
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v2.1.271
Workflow agent spawning can wait for an 'auto-continue at usage limit' gate before starting
Workflow agents can now pause before spawning until an auto-continue-at-usage-limit condition clears
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.234
Sessions can wait out a claude.ai usage limit and continue on their own
Your session can now wait out a usage limit and pick the task back up by itself.
named in this entry, found in this entry's text
First cited
1The earliest release whose published evidence quoted autoContinueAtUsageLimit was v2.1.234, 17 Aug 2026. That is the oldest release this project wrote about it, so it is a floor on the name's age and not the release that introduced it. It is not a presence reading: which builds carried the name is the table below.
Presence across releases
2Build by build
64One row per release since the first build this name was read out of. Absent means the build was read and the name was not in it, never mined means no bundle for that release was ever archived, and a declared type or a default is only ever what that release's own bundle stated.
Read out of the published npm bundle release by release, and out of Anthropic's own documentation as this site captured it. Nothing on this page is a description anybody here wrote about what the settings key does. All settings keys.