What
The hint shown when you reach a usage limit has changed:
- Highest Max plan (20x): the hint now reads "/usage-credits to keep using Claude Code". It appears only when extra usage is off and
/usage-creditsis available. Otherwise no hint is shown. - Pro and Max on the five-hour limit: the "/upgrade to keep using Claude Code" hint no longer appears once extra usage is turned on.
On the highest Max plan, /upgrade now also says you are already on the top plan and suggests /usage-credits for more usage, when that command is available. Otherwise it keeps the earlier advice to use /login and switch to an account billed through the API.
Setting DISABLE_EXTRA_USAGE_COMMAND hides the new hint, and DISABLE_UPGRADE_COMMAND turns off /upgrade.
Why
People already on the top Max plan were being told to upgrade, which they cannot do. They are now sent to the command that can actually give them more usage.
Names in the bundle/usage-credits/upgrade
The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.
Confirmed since
Anthropic's documentation has since written up /upgrade, on optimizing-for-cost-and-intelligence.
 if you manage billing, or ask an admin to. `/usage-credits` sends that request to your admin for youerrors see the edit
Confirmed since
Anthropic's documentation has since written up /usage-credits, on Interactive mode.
Either line can carry more after these words, such as a help link on the first or `/usage-credits to continue now` on the second. When the wait starts on its own, the conversation also records it with a line that reads `Usage limit reached…interactive-mode see the edit
Two sources agreeTwo things we can check say the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agrees
Anthropic's documentation has since written up /usage-credits, on Interactive mode.
Anthropic's release notes agree
Added dollar amounts to the Claude apps gateway spend limit in /usage and the status line (for example "$271.40 / $500.00 spent this month")…