{"version":"2.1.305","anchor":"new-promo-credit-check-background-task-reads-wattle-ember","canonical_anchor":"new-promo-credit-check-background-task-reads-wattle-ember","heading":"Claude Code checks your account for a promotional offer in the background","tier":"internal","area":"Usage & Limits","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.305\/e\/new-promo-credit-check-background-task-reads-wattle-ember","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.305","markdown":"### Claude Code checks your account for a promotional offer in the background\n\nA new background task checks your usage for a promotional offer and saves whether it is open and when it ends, without showing you anything yet\n\n**What**\n\nShortly after Claude Code starts, and after a short random delay, a new background task fetches your usage information and looks for an entry tied to a promotion. It saves whether the promotion is open, and when it ends, in Claude Code's global configuration. That is the settings store that applies across all your projects. The check is limited for each sign-in, so it does not run every time.\n\nNothing is shown to you as a result of this check yet.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis lays groundwork for a notice about promotional credit on your account. For now it only records an answer in the background.\n\n- Area: Usage & Limits\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 4\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}