Daily · · Claude Code · 🌶️🌶️Worth a lookMedium: worth a look Why: Stopped sessions fixed
Claude Code fixes “Usage credits required for 1M context”
Update now: long Claude Code sessions stop dead-ending on a credits error. Standard-context sessions stopped with “Usage credits required for 1M context” when a request ran over 200K tokens. The release out Oct 26, 2026 compacts the conversation and keeps going instead.
What changed
Big repos and long chats eat context fast. On the standard context window, that used to mean a hard stop in the middle of your work. With this fix, you stay in the same session and carry on.
What to do
Update to v2.1.311 or later.
Also fixed in this release
- Subagents can use MCP tools from servers that finish connecting after the subagent starts.
SubagentStophooks run once when a subagent finishes, not about twice a minute for each running subagent.- No more long freezes at startup or after file edits when a CLAUDE.md file holds a very long list item.
- Claude no longer sees stale MEMORY.md and CLAUDE.md content right after automatic compaction.
Also new
self-hosted-runner gets --hold-idle-file and --max-hold-min, which keep an idle session alive while your host reports processes it left running.