Claude Code hit its 5-hour limit

What Rondar reads

Rondar reads the 5-hour window of a Claude connection through the Claude CLI of that connection. The CLI gives the percent used and the reset time.

Rondar reads it only for a Claude connection that is signed in with the Claude CLI. It keeps each reading for 5 minutes.

Rondar makes no request to Anthropic for this. The CLI asks, and only its windows come back to Rondar.

Reset time

This page shows no reset time, because each account has its own.

After you sign in, Settings, Connections shows each window of your own connection, the percent used and the time it resets, as your connection reports them.

Open Settings, Connections

Weekly limit banner

The weekly limit banner does not act on the 5-hour window. It acts only on a window of a week or longer.

So at the 5-hour limit, Rondar acts when a session stops, as below.

When a session stops

The Claude CLI says, for example, that you hit your limit or that the limit will reset. Rondar reads these words as a usage limit.

1. When the CLI of the agent says that the account reached its limit, the turn stops with a usage limit error.
2. The session then shows a card with one button: Continue with the next model. Rondar chooses a model of another agent that you connected first. When there is none, it offers another model of the same agent.
3. Press the button. Rondar saves the new agent and model on the session and sends your last request again.
4. In Settings, Agent defaults, you can turn on Continue automatically. Then Rondar switches without a question, and the session says which model it uses. It switches automatically one time in each session.
5. When no other model can run, the session tells you to wait until the limit resets or to choose another connection.

Same session, same workspace

The session stays the same session. It keeps its branch and its workspace, so the files stay as the last agent left them.

Rondar tells the next agent: "The previous model could not continue. Continue the same task from the current worktree and preserve edits." Then it gives your last request again.

A plan that you saved in Rondar is a record of the project. It does not change when the agent changes.

Questions

What does Rondar do when Claude Code hits its 5-hour limit?

The session stops with a usage limit error. Rondar then offers to continue the session on a model of another agent that you connected. With Continue automatically on, Rondar switches one time without a question.

Does the session keep its files when it moves to another agent?

Yes. The session keeps its branch and its workspace. The next agent gets your last request again and a note to continue from the current worktree and keep the edits.

Does Rondar move my selections before the 5-hour limit?

No. The weekly limit banner acts only on a window of a week or longer. At the 5-hour limit, Rondar acts only when a session stops.

When does my 5-hour window reset?

Rondar does not say this for other accounts. After you sign in, Settings, Connections shows the reset time that your own Claude connection reports.