Claude Code
Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding tool for working directly with a codebase. It can read project context, edit files and run tests, making it suited to implementation and maintenance work where an agent needs to act across a repository rather than only suggest snippets.
- Company
- Anthropic
- Category
- AI coding agent
- Pricing
- Structured pricing available
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Claude Code usage limits increased on May 6, 2026 for several Anthropic subscription plans, including doubled five-hour rate limits and removal of peak-hours reductions for Pro and Max.
Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX ↗Practitioner notes
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A separate June 2026 macOS report on Claude Code 2.1.196 describes an unexpected 500k-token auto-compact setting despite a larger available context configuration. Together with the other retained issue, this supports context-management transparency as a recurring practitioner friction theme across distinct versions, without establishing frequency.
A June 2026 user report on Claude Code 2.1.168 describes auto-compaction failing to trigger when a long CLI session reaches the context limit, requiring manual intervention. Treat as one version-specific practitioner observation, not prevalence evidence.