{"version":"2.1.268","anchor":"team-shared-budget-group-pool-hit-message","canonical_anchor":"group-pool-teams-shared-budget-overage-messaging","heading":"New group_pool overage scope for teams sharing a rate-limit budget","tier":"notice","area":"Rate Limits","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.268\/e\/team-shared-budget-group-pool-hit-message","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.268","markdown":"### New group_pool overage scope for teams sharing a rate-limit budget\n\nClaude Code now recognizes a pooled 'team's shared budget' rate-limit scope with its own messaging, including in Slack\n\n**What**\n\n- A new `overageScope`\/`limitScope` value, `group_pool`, is now recognized alongside the existing org spend-cap and channel scopes, representing a team's shared usage budget rather than an individual member's own cap.\n\n- Rate-limit messaging now has dedicated copy for this case: \"You've hit your team's shared budget. Switch to another model... to continue,\" and when overage purchasing is available, \"Run \/usage-credits to raise it and keep using ${model} or switch models...\" (otherwise it points to `\/model` to switch models). It also points admins\/users at claude.ai\/admin-settings\/usage.\n\n- The Claude-in-Slack usage schema (`CLAUDE_IN_SLACK_V2`) gained an optional `limitScope` field with values `service`\/`channel`\/`group_pool`, so denied requests in Slack report which kind of limit was hit.\n\n- The scope value itself is now parsed generically from a response header via a helper, instead of being hardcoded to the literal string `'channel'`, so other scope values (like `group_pool`) can be recognized and propagated through telemetry.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis lets Claude Code tell users precisely when they've hit a team-wide pooled budget rather than their own individual limit, and point them at the right next step (raising the pool, switching models, or contacting an admin) instead of a generic rate-limit message.\n\n- Area: Rate Limits\n- Names: `\/usage-credits`, `\/model`\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5"}