{"version":"2.1.323","anchor":"usage-credits-model-consent-dialog-fable-limit-gated-by-te","canonical_anchor":"usage-credits-model-consent-dialog-fable-limit-gated-by-te","heading":"Choose to switch models or keep going on usage credits when a model needs credits","tier":"notice","area":"Usage & Limits","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.323\/e\/usage-credits-model-consent-dialog-fable-limit-gated-by-te","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.323","markdown":"### Choose to switch models or keep going on usage credits when a model needs credits\n\nWhen a model needs usage credits, Claude Code asks whether to switch models, continue on credits or wait, and the question can come remotely\n\n**What**\n\nSome models can be used past your plan's limit only by paying with usage credits. When you reach that point, Claude Code now asks you what to do, with a message such as \"You've reached your Fable limit for this week. Switch models?\" You can choose:\n\n- Switch to a default model.\n\n- \"Continue with usage credits\".\n\n- \"Not now\".\n\nIf you decline and no other model is allowed, the turn fails with an error. Setting the `CLAUDE_CODE_NO_MODEL_FALLBACK` environment variable turns off switching models, so the swap is blocked.\n\nThe same question can also be asked remotely, for example over Remote Control, which lets you run a session from another device. That remote question sits behind a server-controlled switch whose built-in default is on.\n\n**Why**\n\nReaching a credits-only model now gives you an explicit choice instead of a silent outcome, and you can answer it even when you are away from the terminal.\n\n- Flag `tengu_jazzy_corbato`: On for this account, and not off by default (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.323; this account: on, anonymous baseline: on, compiled default: on) 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: You'll notice\n- Useful: 4\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}