Measured 2026-09-16 against the live endpoint: a clean burst allows exactly 5 requests before a 429, with Retry-After: 300 (a flat 5-req/5-min quota, no ratelimit-* headers on either the 200s or the 429s). Lowered UsagePollIntervalActiveSeconds/UsagePollIntervalIdleSeconds default from 300/900 to 120 each (clamp floor 90, up from 60) — leaves ~2.5 requests of headroom per window for manual refreshes and any other consumer of the same OAuth token, unlike 60s which consumes the whole quota by itself. The quota is a flat per-account limit, not tied to ClaudeDo's own running/idle state, so both keys share the same default now (kept separate for config compatibility). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Explore-notes
Distilled, reusable maps of complex subsystems, produced by deep code exploration. The goal: stop re-exploring the same subsystem from scratch in every new session.
These sit between the CLAUDE.md files and the code:
- CLAUDE.md — high-level orientation, hand-maintained, always-loaded.
- explore-notes — deeper subsystem detail (flows, who-calls-whom, invariants) that is too fine-grained for a CLAUDE.md but stable enough to be worth caching. Read on demand.
- code — the only source of truth.
Index
| Note | Covers |
|---|---|
| worker-task-pipeline | TaskRunner end-to-end: config resolution, worktree, CLI invocation, streaming, commit |
| usage-monitoring | OAuth usage endpoint, gate, throttle, per-run token accounting, usage pill/modal |
| external-mcp | The claudedo MCP tool surface + its two test-enforced conventions |
| review-merge | Approve=merge-unit, verify gate, MergeCommit/revert, diff stack, conflict resolver |
| conpty-sessions | Interactive/planning/list-handler launch specs + the arg-flattening gotcha |
| installer-preflight | CLI version/login/auto-mode research, the ExecutableResolver/shim root cause, and the Installer's Checks/+SystemCheckPage implementation status |
| list-virtualization-spike | Phase 2a gate spike: virtualized ListBox + the existing ghost-drag InputHitTest model, verified headless |
Rules
- Only stable structure. Flows, responsibilities, entry points, invariants, relative file paths. No line numbers, no exhaustive symbol dumps — those rot fastest.
- Verify before trusting. A note is a starting map, not authority. Always confirm against current code before acting on it. Each note records the commit it was verified against so you can diff for drift.
- Not a substitute for CLAUDE.md. If a fact belongs in orientation, put it there.
Header every note must carry
> **Explore-note — verify before trusting.** Distilled map of a subsystem, not authoritative.
> Last verified against commit `<short-hash>` (<date>).
> Drift check: `git log --oneline <short-hash>..HEAD -- <paths this note covers>`
> Stable structure only (no line numbers). See docs/explore-notes/README.md.
Workflow
- Before deep-exploring a subsystem, check for a matching note here and read it first; explore only to fill gaps or confirm.
- After a deep explore, distill the durable findings into a new/updated note and bump its "verified against" commit line.
- If the drift check shows the covered paths changed a lot since the verified commit, treat the note as suspect and re-verify the parts you rely on.