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Problem

When the usage probe fails, Claude limits that a turn streamed in stay invisible. Usage → Limits shows "Claude: Could not read limits." even though the provider snapshot holds real windows. The next failed probe then replaces them with an empty list.

This is permanent for accounts whose org pushes CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_NONESSENTIAL_TRAFFIC=1 through Claude remote managed settings (~/.claude/remote-settings.json). The CLI then answers get_usage with rate_limits_available: true, rate_limits: null every time (#27492). The streamed rate_limit_event is the only source of limits, and the user can't override the flag.

Observed provider cache (~/.t3/caches/claudeAgent.json) on the released app, after a few turns:

"usageLimits": {
  "windows": [{ "id": "seven_day", "kind": "weekly", "usedPercent": 93, "resetsAt": "2026-11-05T04:00:00.000Z" }],
  "unavailable": { "reason": "probeFailed" }
}

Change

probeFailed is kept as a marker, as #12170 intended, so a sparse streamed snapshot is still not treated as a clean read. It no longer discards or hides data:

• resolveUsageLimitsAfterProbe (provider-core): a failed probe keeps a published snapshot that has windows, even if that snapshot is itself marked probeFailed. Before, only unmarked snapshots survived, so streamed windows were wiped on the next refresh.
• limitsNotice (shared): "Could not read limits." only appears when there are no windows to show. Every surface (web Limits page, composer, thread details, mobile) gates on this function.
• Duplicate-account merging used limitsNotice as its "usable" test. It now uses a stricter clean-read check, so a clean snapshot still beats a probe-failed one with windows (existing test unchanged).

Independent of #30999, no shared files and no ordering requirement. #30999 makes Claude events with only unifiedWindows produce windows. This PR makes produced windows survive a failed probe. With only this PR, org-managed accounts get the Weekly window (their events still carry flat utilization). With both, Session and Weekly show.

Why this is a fix, and what it changes from #15116

Accounts whose org sets the managed flag can't see Claude limits in T3 at all, although T3 receives them on every turn. This PR fixes that one defect.

To fix it, the PR narrows one rule from #15116 (fixing #12170): a failed probe no longer discards streamed windows. #15116 made the drop deliberate, so a partial list couldn't "survive later failed probes as though it were a complete account read". Its managed-provider test asserted the drop, and this PR updates that assertion (see the test(server) commit).

Why the narrower rule is safe:

• The concern from Claude usage limits: a rate_limit_event after a failed probe is published as a complete window list #12170 stays covered. The snapshot keeps unavailable: probeFailed (and its message), so it is never treated as a clean read. Duplicate-account merging still prefers a clean read, and a full successful probe still clears the marker.
• fix(server): a mid-turn usage update no longer hides a failed probe #15116 assumes a later full probe will recover. For accounts with the org-managed CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_NONESSENTIAL_TRAFFIC, it never does. Dropping streamed windows means those users never see any limits, although T3 has real data.

If you prefer a different shape (e.g. a "partial" label next to the windows), I'm happy to adjust. Refs #30310 and #27492; root cause in this comment.

Verification

• New assertions in existing cases, which fail on main and pass here:
  • packages/provider-core/src/server/usageLimits.test.ts: "keeps the last good windows through a failed probe…" covers a streamed probe-failed snapshot with windows (kept) and without windows (replaced).
  • packages/shared/src/usageLimits.test.ts: limitsNotice returns null for probe-failed with windows, and "Could not read limits." without windows.
• packages/provider-core/src/server/managedProvider.test.ts: the fix(server): a mid-turn usage update no longer hides a failed probe #15116 case now expects the sparse snapshot (windows plus the failed-probe marker and message) to survive a failed refresh. The full-probe recovery assertion is unchanged.
• vp run check:changed passes. Also ran vp test run packages/provider-core packages/shared/src/usageLimits.test.ts apps/server/src/provider: 1111 of 1112 pass. The one failure (ClaudeSkills.test.ts, plugin registry order) fails identically on main in my environment and is unrelated.
• Root cause confirmed by toggling the flag in our org's managed settings (I'm the org admin). With the flag, every probe returns rate_limits: null and the released app's cache stays windows: [], unavailable: probeFailed. Without it, the released app gets a clean probe with Session, Weekly and Weekly · Fable.
• Manual: vp run dev --home-dir <isolated> on macOS arm64, Claude Code 2.1.318, SDK 0.3.284, Claude Team seat with the org-managed flag, together with fix(server): Claude limits update from rate_limit_event unifiedWindows #30999. Before any turn, the dev cache held windows: [], unavailable: probeFailed. After one Haiku turn it held five_hour 9%, seven_day 93% with probeFailed, and Usage → Limits showed both windows. A manual refresh (failed probe) kept them visible.
• Not checked end to end: this PR alone without fix(server): Claude limits update from rate_limit_event unifiedWindows #30999 in a dev build. The before screenshot below is the released app (no fix(server): Claude limits update from rate_limit_event unifiedWindows #30999) with seven_day already present in its cache, which is the data this PR makes visible.

Before (released app)

and after (dev build):

Model and harness: Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code (via T3 Code).

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Usage-limit selection now ranks snapshots by read status before freshness. Failed probes can retain published limits that contain windows. Tests cover merging, notices, sparse updates, refreshes, and complete probes.

Changes: Usage limit probe handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared limit ranking and notices packages/shared/src/usageLimits.ts, packages/shared/src/usageLimits.test.ts	Account and native snapshot selection now ranks snapshots by read status, then uses freshness to resolve equal ranks. limitsNotice reports a probe failure only when the snapshot has no windows. Tests cover merged limits, notices, and provider ordering.
Provider probe resolution and recovery packages/provider-core/src/server/usageLimits.ts, packages/provider-core/src/server/usageLimits.test.ts, packages/provider-core/src/server/managedProvider.test.ts	A failed probe retains published limits when they are available or contain windows. Tests cover sparse updates retaining unavailable metadata, duplicate updates, refreshes retaining partial limits, and complete probes clearing unavailable metadata.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related issues

• Claude usage limits never populate: rate_limit_event numbers live under unifiedWindows, and get_usage returns rate_limits: null #30310 — This change preserves snapshots with windows after a probeFailed result. Mapping unifiedWindows event fields remains separate work.
• [Bug]: Limits hub blanks Claude accounts after a few refreshes because every refresh re-probes /api/oauth/usage and 429s are shown as a read failure #19807 — This change addresses retaining windows after failed reads, but the hub read path is separate.
• [Bug]: Claude instances authenticated with CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN (claude setup-token) never appear in Usage → Limits, although their sessions stream usable rate-limit windows #24114 — This change covers failed snapshots with windows, but not the unsupported-probe state.
• [Bug]: Native Claude provider: usage probes hit /api/oauth/usage with no back-off and drop the last good reading (429s) #27772 — This change preserves windows in a probeFailed snapshot, but does not add probe backoff.

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Minor · Prefer clean reads when merging duplicate accounts. · usageLimits.ts:301

packages/shared/src/usageLimits.ts:301
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Prefer clean reads when merging duplicate accounts.

The filters at lines 341 and 363 skip any snapshot whose limitsNotice is non-null. A probeFailed snapshot with windows now returns null, so it reaches the merge. The merge then picks the winner by checkedAt alone. A newer failed snapshot can replace a clean snapshot for the same account. The clean snapshot's windows are dropped, and the failed snapshot's unavailable marker is carried into the account.

collectProviderUsageLimits already prefers clean reads. Apply the same rule here.

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-    const fresher = Date.parse(next.limits.checkedAt) > Date.parse(previous.limits.checkedAt);
+    const nextUsable = isCleanRead(next.limits);
+    const previousUsable = isCleanRead(previous.limits);
+    const fresher = Date.parse(next.limits.checkedAt) > Date.parse(previous.limits.checkedAt);
...
-    const winner = fresher ? next : previous;
+    const nextWins = nextUsable === previousUsable ? fresher : nextUsable;
+    const winner = nextWins ? next : previous;

Add a case to the existing duplicate-account tests in packages/shared/src/usageLimits.test.ts for a clean snapshot followed by a newer probe-failed snapshot with windows.

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Review comment at @packages/shared/src/usageLimits.ts at line 301:
Update the duplicate-account merge winner selection around `winner` to prefer a
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Re the outside-diff finding (usageLimits.ts:301, collectLimitAccounts merge): valid, and introduced by this PR. Fixed in 7b6f791 with the same ranking as collectProviderUsageLimits, so a newer probe-failed snapshot no longer displaces a clean one. Covered by an added assertion in "merges one account reported natively on two environments…".

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