I’m using the Claude Max 5x Plan through my company. Today I gave Claude Code a research task that involved web searches . Since it kept asking for permission for every search, I enabled Auto Mode permission . Claude was doing all of the web searches internally, so there wasn’t much happening in the chat. I couldn’t tell what it was doing or whether it had actually finished. About 30 minutes later, I got a “limit exceeded” message. That’s when I realized Claude Code was still running in the background . I closed VS Code, and only then did it stop. The result: My entire 5-hour session was gone. Around 25% of my weekly quota was consumed by a single research task. I understand that web research uses more tokens, but there should be a clear indication that Claude Code is still running in the background. Silently consuming that much quota without the user realizing it makes for a terrible experience. Has anyone else experienced this, especially during web search or research tasks? Or did I just hit a bug? submitted by /u/Shivam__kumar
Originally posted by u/Shivam__kumar on r/ClaudeCode