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Claude Code v2.1.224 ·

Managed Agents sessions can carry a hard dollar spend cap

The bundled Claude API docs now describe a hard dollar spend cap that pauses a session idle.

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What

The bundled claude-api skill, the documentation Claude Code consults when you ask it to write code against the Claude API, now documents a session budget. It is set at create time only, in minor units and USD only, for example {"type": "limit", "max_list_cost": {"amount": "2500", "currency": "USD"}}. A session that reaches the cap pauses idle instead of terminating, and only resumes if the budget is raised or removed.

Details
  • A paused session accepts only settle events: user.tool_confirmation, user.tool_result, user.custom_tool_result, user.interrupt.
  • Removing a budget is one-way; it cannot be added back to that session.
  • Raising the cap must exceed what the session already spent, otherwise the API rejects it.
  • Claude Code will generate and explain this shape whenever the skill is in use.
Evidence

budget.max_list_cost must be greater than the session's consumed list cost

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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Names in the bundlebudgetmax_list_cost

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