--- title: Usage Limit Reached Is No Longer a Limit | daily.dev description: When a Claude session hit its usage limit at 80% completion mid-debugging, the author used Capacitor — an event-log-based session recorder — to hand off the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/usage-limit-reached-is-no-longer-a-limit-1jbqbyqae twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Usage Limit Reached Is No Longer a Limit | daily.dev og:description: When a Claude session hit its usage limit at 80% completion mid-debugging, the author used Capacitor — an event-log-based session recorder — to hand off the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/usage-limit-reached-is-no-longer-a-limit-1jbqbyqae og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/1jbQByQae.png og:image:alt: Usage Limit Reached Is No Longer a Limit og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Usage Limit Reached Is No Longer a Limit **[Event Store](https://daily.dev/sources/eventstore)** · 4 min read · 1 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary When a Claude session hit its usage limit at 80% completion mid-debugging, the author used Capacitor — an event-log-based session recorder — to hand off the work to Codex (a different vendor's agent). Codex read only the tail of the final turn (0.4% of the original 17.8M tokens) to identify the exact continuation point, finished the work in 15 minutes for $0.16, and the PR merged on schedule. The key insight is that Capacitor stores sessions as immutable, append-only, vendor-neutral event logs, enabling precise context retrieval and seamless agent handoffs across vendors without re-explaining anything. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How can I resume an AI coding agent session after hitting a usage limit without losing context? By recording agent sessions as an immutable, vendor-neutral event log (transcripts, tool calls, diffs), a different agent from a different vendor can query just the tail of the log to find the exact continuation point and resume work, rather than replaying the entire transcript. In one case, a Codex session recovered a Claude Code session's progress using only 67.4k tokens versus the original 17.8M tokens, for about $0.16. _Developers hitting agent usage limits mid-task can compare handoff and continuity approaches on daily.dev._ ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@agustinbarrientos** · 0 upvotes > Nothing tests an agent handoff quite like a usage limit cutting off the first one halfway through the fix ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [When Your Coding Agent Doesn't Listen](https://daily.dev/posts/when-your-coding-agent-doesn-t-listen-bdowrls57) · Event Store · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [\[BUG\] Pro Max 5x Quota Exhausted in 1.5 Hours Despite Moderate Usage · Issue \#45756 · anthropics/claude-code](https://daily.dev/posts/bug-pro-max-5x-quota-exhausted-in-1-5-hours-despite-moderate-usage-issue-45756-anthropics-cla-4ulm7xifs) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Working around Claude's strict limits taught me how to use it properly](https://daily.dev/posts/working-around-claude-s-strict-limits-taught-me-how-to-use-it-properly-uxpvd81w6) · XDA Developers · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture), [#context-engineering](https://daily.dev/tags/context-engineering) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/usage-limit-reached-is-no-longer-a-limit-1jbqbyqae) ```json 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