{"version":"2.1.284","anchor":"extended-usage-limit-header-can-now-fire-on-the-top-level-tu","canonical_anchor":"extended-usage-limit-header-can-now-fire-on-the-top-level-tu","heading":"Extended usage requests can now come from the main conversation, behind remote switches","tier":"soon","area":"Usage & Limits","url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.284\/e\/extended-usage-limit-header-can-now-fire-on-the-top-level-tu","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.284","markdown":"### Extended usage requests can now come from the main conversation, behind remote switches\n\nThe request for extended usage past a limit can now apply to the main conversation, not only subagents, but stays off unless switched on remotely\n\n**Unclear.** What the new condition that lets the main conversation through represents is not known.\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code can mark a request to Anthropic as asking for extended usage past a usage limit. Before, this was never done for the main conversation, only for subagents (helpers Claude runs separately for a task). With a new condition passed in, the main conversation is no longer ruled out.\n\nThe other conditions are unchanged:\n\n- you must connect to Anthropic directly\n\n- one of two remote conditions must hold\n\n- a remotely controlled setting, `tengu_lantern_spool`, must be on; it falls back to off when the server sends nothing\n\n**Why**\n\nOnce switched on, extended usage could cover your main conversation as well as subagents.\n\n- Flag `tengu_lantern_spool`: Off in both readings (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.284; this account: off, anonymous baseline: off, compiled default: off) These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.\n- Flag `tengu_smooth_harbor`: Not enough to say (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.284; this account: no value returned, anonymous baseline: no value returned, compiled default: off) These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.\n- Area: Usage & Limits\n- Tier: Nothing to try yet\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 4\/5\n- Present in the build but not switched on"}