You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ElsewhereArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.302,
ImprovementsSection of the release
Unclear It is not clear which providers or sign-in types keep prompt suggestions while usage credits are in use.
What
Prompt suggestions are next prompts that Claude Code offers for you to send. They were already turned off when you hit a rate limit, which is a cap on how much you can use in a period. They were also turned off near that limit if CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_PROMPT_SUGGESTION was set.
Claude Code now also turns them off when you are using usage credits, meaning extra paid usage beyond your plan's normal limit. The rate-limit reason still applies. Some provider or sign-in conditions keep suggestions running even while credits are in use.
Why
A suggestion costs usage. While you are paying for extra credits, Claude Code no longer spends them on suggestions you did not ask for.
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.
Added sinceA small documentation edit on Interactive mode touched a line naming CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_PROMPT_SUGGESTION after this was published.* Your account is close to or at its usage limit. To keep this skip from applying until you reach the limit, set [`CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_PROMPT_SUGGESTION`](/docs/en/env-vars) to `true`. Before v2.1.238, Claude Code skipped suggestions near t…interactive-modesee the edit
How sure we are
Something disagreesSomething we can check disagrees with this entry, or the writer said they could not settle it.
The writer flagged doubtIt is not clear which providers or sign-in types keep prompt suggestions while usage credits are in use.
Anthropic's documentation agreesA small documentation edit on Interactive mode touched a line naming CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_PROMPT_SUGGESTION after this was published.
