Claude Code hands paid users a limit reset through Oct 22

Hit the 5-hour wall mid-refactor and you now have a spare: Anthropic is giving Pro, Max and Team users in Claude Code a limit reset they can spend whenever they choose.

• The reset is in Settings → Usage today and works any time until Oct 22. • 5-hour session limits rise 20% starting today. • Opus 5.5 becomes the default on paid plans, and its lower price stretches 5-hour and weekly limits 25% further. • Running /claude-api migrate switches you to claude-opus-5-5.

The catch: Opus 5.5 ships with Fable 5.1-class safeguards on cyber, bio and frontier LLM development, so flagged requests fall back to another model, and Anthropic says it’s working to reduce incorrect flags. You get a single reset, so save it for a truly bad Tuesday.