This needs to be fixed asap. Since they have included Fable in the Max plan, they have nuked session lengths.

Even using Opus. I usually run multiple day, 10+ hour sprints and never reach my session limit before it resets.

So I opted in for $100 credit given by Claude, Run the command, and it finishes in a day of work? the app just had a one page and all of the credits gone??

I have been on the Claude Max plan for a while now. I have been working on my personal dream projects which I have been holding off for the last 15 years due to a busy schedule at work and home.

Fable as an architect and Sonnet as an implementer makes me feel like I am just a kid in my 20s again (when I used to code for fun for 10-14 hours every day). I am constantly reading all the steps it takes and how it thinks before answering, and it actually makes sense. It thinks like a real analytical person from all different angles and then makes a decision.

I just provide best software design practices to it and it follows them to a T. Sometimes I want it to take shortcuts to complete a task, but it pushes back and keeps me honest.

Honestly, I wish I had these AI models available in my 30s. I would have started multiple startups by now.

Any big company not using Claude for their deep thinking, research, and implementation departments is missing out on so many levels. They are not even aware. Small companies will start popping up everywhere and take over the big giants in the market in the next few years. I am so excited after playing with Fable. Opus was not this good.

I have been managing many enterprise-wide systems and I can honestly tell you we would be releasing products with 300% efficiency if we embraced Claude Fable in our day-to-day workflow.

It sucks to see these IT executives who do not understand the full value of AI models spending too much time trying to control its usage.

Time to look for new opportunities is on the horizon... but I am loving how these models help an analytical, curious mind explore opportunities that used to take 6 months minimum to understand.

Thank you Claude team.

Seemed like a pretty simple prompt, but using opus 4.8 max used 6% of my 5 hour credits? Should I have used a lighter model? 6% for 1 prompt means you get 16.6 prompts for the 5 hr window, which equates to 3.3 prompts per hour. That seems insane for a pro plan. Maybe I'm just not understanding how to efficiently use my tokens?

EDIT / TL;DR: I’m not saying Claude never regresses or that every complaint is user error. I’m saying a raw model is not a complete agent. Mine improved dramatically after I built persistent memory, skills, hooks, specialized roles, validation gates, and reliable handoffs around it. A blank chat is basically a new engineer with no onboarding, documentation, or project history. The system around the model matters as much as the model itself.Everyone says Claude got worse. Mine got dramatically better because I stopped writing prompts and started building an operating system around it for ~> 9 months

OG Post:

I keep seeing the same complaints:

“Claude forgot my instructions.”

“Claude destroyed my codebase.”

“Claude can’t finish anything complex.”

“Claude used to be smarter.”

Some of those complaints are legitimate. Models regress. Tools fail. Usage limits are absurd. Anthropic changes behavior without warning.

But that is not the whole explanation.

My Claude is currently doing the best work it has ever done, and the biggest improvement did not come from switching models or discovering a magic prompt.

It came from building infrastructure around the model.

A raw model is not a complete agent. It is a reasoning component.

My system gives Claude:

Persistent project memory that survives individual sessions

Core files defining architecture, standards, decisions, and current state

Specialized roles for architecture, orchestration, execution, and validation

Skills that convert recurring work into explicit procedures

Hooks that inject the right context at the right stage

Validation gates that can block Claude’s own bad changes

Context boundaries that keep unrelated history from contaminating a task

Failure protocols that require Claude to report missing information instead of inventing an answer

One of the most important changes was implementing a page-fault-style protocol.

When a worker lacks required context, it does not guess. It returns something equivalent to:

BLOCKED: Missing DEC-X §4

The orchestrator then retrieves the missing information and redispatches the work.

That one rule eliminates an enormous amount of confident nonsense.

The system also maintains handoff state across context windows. Long-running work does not depend on one giant conversation surviving forever. A worker can finish a bounded unit, record what changed, preserve evidence, and hand the next unit to another session or specialized role.

I can run extended workflows where Claude:

Breaks a goal into bounded work units

Dispatches them to specialized roles

Validates the output against project rules

Rejects unsupported or incomplete work

Updates its durable project state

Hands off before the current context degrades

That is very different from opening a blank chat and typing:

“Build my app. Make it production ready.”

Most people are effectively hiring a new engineer every session, giving them no onboarding, no documentation, no repository map, no coding standards, and no record of previous decisions.

Then they fire the engineer for asking where the database lives.

Claude still makes mistakes in my system. The difference is that the mistakes become visible, bounded, and recoverable instead of silently poisoning the project.

So no, I do not think every “Claude is useless” post is wrong.

I do think many people are evaluating the engine while refusing to build the rest of the vehicle.

The biggest upgrade was not changing models.

It was building the operating system around the model.

Sorry if this has been discussed before. I am new to using Claude. Been on this for about three weeks, and so far, I've been pretty content with it. It's better and brighter than ChatGPT and Gemini, and it's pretty good at explaining things to me.

That said, this morning I prompted it literally four times. Two simples questions, one straightforward coding question that required about 20 lines of code, and then I asked it to do another deep research report for me, since the one it did yesterday covered the wrong topic (my fault).

That said, this is FOUR prompts. Why is it using tokens so quickly? Am I using this wrong? Should I not be using Sonnet? It seems bizarre that four prompts uses up my tokens for five hours? This is only on my current session, not my weekly usage.

Again, what am I doing wrong here? I don't understand how these tokens are used, and it's pretty fking annoying because I never ran into this problem with ChatGPT, even with me having to go back and forth within repeatedly because it wasn't listening. Any thoughts?

I pay $250+ CAD a month for Claude's Max 20x plan. Here's how yesterday went.

My usage allowance reset at 5am. By 3:24pm, most of it was gone. I hadn't been writing essays at it — I'd given it a handful of instructions to do some agentic coding work on my machine. The consumption came from the tool's own file reads and command outputs, not from anything I typed.

Fine, that's how it works. Here's the actual problem: there is no way to see what any of it costs. No estimate before a task, no live meter during it, no breakdown afterward. You fire an instruction into a black box and find out later that a chunk of your month is gone. Anthropic confirmed this to me in writing.

So I contacted support. Got a bot. Asked the bot for a human. The bot said I'd get an email. The email arrived — from the same bot. I replied asking, plainly, whether Max subscribers can reach a human for a billing dispute. The answer, in writing: their documentation doesn't confirm that they can, and the bot cannot issue a ticket number or assign a representative.

Two hundred dollars a month and the company can't confirm a human is reachable.

The bot then told me to run a command inside the tool to report the bug. The command doesn't exist.

I'm not writing this because I think Claude is bad — it's genuinely useful and I use it for real work. I'm writing it because "useful product, unreachable company" is a pattern worth naming while this industry is still deciding what normal looks like. If you're on a paid AI plan, know that you may have no way to see what you're spending and no way to ask anyone about it.

I paid for a Claude sub on mobile through the Google Play Store. And then the next month I cancelled it, but it didn't reflect in the Claude servers I guess, so it kept on renewing even though I wasn't paying anything.

Around April I think, they caught on and it stopped working. But it did work for like 6 months lol.

Did this happen for anyone else?

Noticed a skill on Claude (web), /morning, by Anthropic. Hadn't seen it before, is it new?

I'm using claude-company to work on client software. This is my custom harness, it works on the basis of a CEO controlling a team of tech leads that each control dev teams

It was working great till like day before yesterday, but now apparently subagents can no longer spin up their own subagents.

Work that use to take 1-2 hours now takes 5-6 hours.

I don't understand these random harness changes. Makes no sense.

Which one is the best for session handoff? sonnet? opus or fable? i tried opus 4.8 its a bit high for me. Is it normal? Or should i write handoff myself

Hello there,

I purchased Claude Max and was hapily vibecoding to work (basically 90 % of my job) when on Friday 17th I found that it logged me out from Claude Code - I said no worries and try to re-login. But the login magic link always gets redirected to onboarding page...

I strongly believe the problem is on their side - I tried clearing cache, different browsers, incognito mode, VPN off, DNS flush - everything support, me and Gemini could think of.

Nothing helped. I was able to login to the app in my phone but I use Claude mainly for coding, so that is mostly useless to me.

Responses from support where only AI bots - I used keywords to get it through to financial dpt but I guess I was unsuccesful. I even consider card chargeback and I basically threatened them with it later down the line (its quite big financial and legal risk for them) - but no human response whatsoever.

If I do it, Stripe will probably tag me as high risk and Anthropic would ban me - I dont want that, but I am afraid I have not much of a choice.

I would switch to competition but seems they are of inferior quality: chatgpt sucks even at getting my point so for coding I am quite skeptic; chinese models openweights models seem proficient in coding but somewhat lacking in tool calling which is for agentic coding session crucial.

Has anyone had similar experience? And even if not, what should I do?

Hey everyone,

I'm currently in a region where Anthropic heavily restricts payments, so I can't top up my Claude API account with any local methods — they all get declined immediately. I also had a previous account banned purely due to location, which has been really disruptive for my work.

I'm looking for advice and legitimate solutions to this problem. Specifically:

Any reliable ways to make official Anthropic payments from restricted regions?

Recommendations for virtual cards or payment services that are known to work with Anthropic (without breaking their ToS).

If anyone has successfully dealt with this and can share what worked for them, I’d really appreciate it. I’m happy to compensate for detailed guidance or time spent explaining the process.

Thanks in advance, and feel free to DM if you prefer.

Hey everyone,

I’m stuck in a region that Anthropic restricts, so I can’t make any direct payments or top-ups for my Claude API account. None of my local payment methods work — they all get blocked instantly. To make things worse, I’ve already had a previous Claude account banned just because of my location, and it’s been super annoying and disruptive for my daily work.

I have two possible workarounds in mind, and I’m hoping someone here can help me out. I’m also open to any better solutions or ideas you might have!

1. Help me top up / pay my Claude API bills with your working payment method
   
2. Help me get a functional virtual card that works for Anthropic official payments
   

If KYC verification is required for the card or payment process, I’ll need help getting that sorted out too.

Of course, I’ll pay you fairly for your help and time. Feel free to DM me to sort out the details!

Really appreciate any help or suggestions!

When should I archive sessions versus delete them?

Loaded tools, searched the web

Loaded tools, searched the web

Short version: in Cowork right now, archive is the only real option — there's no delete in the UI.

Archive when you want a session out of your active list but might want to reference it later. It stops new activity but keeps the history intact and searchable.

There's no true delete for Cowork sessions in the interface — this has come up as a known gap/feature request. If you actually need a session's data gone permanently, that currently requires contacting Anthropic support directly, since there's no self-serve delete.

So practically: archive everything you're done with, and only escalate to support if something needs to be scrubbed entirely (sensitive data, etc.).

Sources:

• How to delete a Claude Cowork session
• Feature request: Add delete option for sessions (not just archive)

for claude code, what is the difference between delete and archive?

Searched the web

Searched the web

is there a limit on archiving? Does it work against some kind of internal memory file system?

Ran 4 commands

Ran 4 commands

For Claude Code (the CLI/desktop app), there isn't really a true "delete" — archive is the only user-facing action:

Archive removes the git worktree tied to that session and takes it off the active sidebar/session list. It's meant for cleanup once a task (or its PR) is done — there's an auto-archive setting for "after PR merge or close."

The catch (a known bug, not by design): once archived, a session can't be unarchived in the desktop app. So functionally it acts like a one-way delete from the UI, even though nothing is technically deleted from disk.

On your follow-up — no documented limit on how many sessions you can archive, and it's not a special "memory" system. Sessions are just JSONL transcript files on disk at ~/.claude/projects/<project>/<session-id>.jsonl. Archiving only affects the worktree and sidebar visibility — it doesn't touch that file. The file itself sticks around until the retention setting (cleanupPeriodDays, default 30 days) cleans it up, independent of archive status. So archiving and actual data retention are two separate mechanisms.

I'm literally in Code and there's a delete and archive button. What are you talking about?

Fair — you're right, and the docs I pulled were out of date on this. Your screenshot clearly shows both Archive and Delete as separate options in the session context menu (with keyboard shortcuts A and D), so the app has since added a real delete. My last answer was wrong on that point.

Based on what's visible in your menu, the practical difference is: Archive tucks the session out of the active list (presumably keeping the transcript/history around, and reversible), while Delete is the destructive one — it's styled in red like other apps use for irreversible actions, and pairs with Archive rather than being a second step after it.

I don't have a way to confirm the exact underlying behavior (whether Delete removes the worktree, the transcript file, or both) without either checking current docs or you testing it — want me to search for the latest Claude Code docs to confirm, since clearly the version I found earlier was stale?

This is you, in the app, how can you not know what your own buttons do?

Thought process

Thought process

Fair pushback, but worth being precise about what I actually am: I'm Claude, a language model built into this app — I don't have a wired-in feed of the app's source code or changelog. What I know comes from training data and whatever I look up (docs, support pages), same as you could look up. When the UI changes faster than those sources, I can be behind, which is what happened here.

Let me actually check the current support docs for the real distinction instead of guessing.

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Confirmed from a matching bug report (same UI, same two options): Archive just hides the session from the sidebar — the session keeps running underneath, still functional, and there's currently no unarchive option once it's hidden, so it's effectively a one-way "put this away" action. Delete is the actual destructive one, sitting right next to it in the menu, which is why that reporter flagged it as a data-loss risk.

So: Archive = hide/deprioritize, reversible in theory but not currently in the UI. Delete = the real destructive action. No official docs page spells out Delete's exact behavior yet (whether it wipes the worktree, the transcript file, or both) — that part I can't verify, and I'd rather say that than guess again.

Sources:

• No way to unarchive a Code session in Claude Code Desktop (Windows) #43304

So, there's nothing to look up from Anthropic regarding what their own buttons do or don't do in Claude Code?

Thought process

Thought process

Let me actually check properly instead of relying on GitHub issue threads.

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I checked the actual official sources this time, not just community threads:

The Claude Code desktop docs page (code.claude.com/docs/en/desktop) — no mention of a Delete button, only Archive.

The dedicated sessions docs page (code.claude.com/docs/en/sessions) — covers resume, branch, rename, export; no Delete.

The Claude Desktop changelog (claude.com/docs/cowork/changelog) — recent entries mention Cowork disk cleanup and sidebar tweaks, but no changelog line that says "added Delete for Code sessions" or defines what it does.

There's a separate Managed Agents API "Delete Session" reference page, but that's a different product (server-hosted agent sessions via API), not the desktop app's Code tab — so I can't use it to explain your button.

So the honest answer: no, there's nothing from Anthropic's own docs that spells out what Delete actually does to a Code session (worktree, transcript file, or both) versus Archive. The feature reached the UI faster than the docs did. That's a real gap on Anthropic's side, not something I was withholding — the most concrete info that exists right now is from user bug reports on GitHub, which is a worse source than official docs and I should have said that plainly the first time instead of asserting things.

Claude just gets shit done. I miss the fuck out of Fable. But gave a network IP challenge to Sol 5.6 this evening because I ran out of Claude tokens, and was given reasons why I’m blocked. I had 4 minutes left until tokens refreshed and I told Sol to give me a summary for Claude, and to be fair it gave a great one. Once fed to Claude, it continued to just get shit done.

I was having a random thought about USA infrastructure, and had Claude explaining like road maintenance, make up, cost, etc. in the best case scenario, a charismatic and intelligent president, yadayada. I asked it, how much it would cost, what the worst roads would be, etc.
It then said "Good, let's get concrete about this (pun intended, sorry)."
I did not make any jokes, puns, etc in this conversation, conversation history is off, prompt messages doesn't include anything relevant to humor.

Nothing bad per se, just found it weird that it made a pun on its own? Has anyone had Claude just make jokes on it's own like that?

So hi guys! I need some help for school, i have some hard exams ahead of me and i want to use Claude for extensive notes. The problem is that the source materials are really big pdfs (600ish pages) and in my native language (Romanian).

The part where i need help is what can i do to make sure that Claude makes the best (as possible) notes on the materials, here i include possible mind maps and such.

I know skills is a possibility to get some better answers, or even a link with notebookLM. But i am a bit out of depth and decided to ask for some help.

THX.

EDIT: Thought i should mention when i say school i meant university (law to be exact)

Honestly, I’m certain Anthropic thinks its customers are idiots that don’t notice the daily increase in token consumption.

My 20x account (max) run out of usage and has resets on Sunday.

Today the subscription was over. I cancelled it alrady so my subscription became a Pro model for 22 usd (charged today as new contract start)

I used the pro to code and no issues, then upgraded to 5X also no issues (charged my card today and had 0% usage)

I then thought okay the 5 hour limit is not enough for what I need to get done so lets again activate 20x and pay for it

Guess what happened, back to 100% usage until my next reset. Cannot use it anymore and got thus punished for upgrading from 5X to 20X

what the fuck is that? charge my credit card and then not reset my usage!???

It seems like Anthropic does not honour newly paid subscriptions?! I should have used an entirely different acciunt to pay to not fall for their scam? Or bug?

With Kimi K3 and Chat 5.6 being available in their Pro tiers, Claude has become a sub-par product. Do you think Anthropic will restore Fable 5 to Pro soon or should I just leave now? I don't want to have to wait months using stone-age AIs but I don't want to have to switch back and forth if they may restore it soon.

We all know Claude is 18+, but I really need it for coding and development, and studying and overall schoolwork. I'm thinking of getting the $100 max plan but my concern is if I get banned.

I'm skeptical if I'll get banned because if I do, I'll lose my money.

I really need Claude specifically as I've tried other platforms such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and they aren't quite what I'm looking for. I've tried them specifically due to Claude's 18+ policy but other models just aren't cutting it.

Anyone got any idea if you can verify with someone who is an adult and 18+? I got a friend who is willing to verify for me but I'm not sure if that's going to stop the flagging or monitoring issues during chatting.

Looking for some advice here or if anyone has went through this. Thanks in advance.