Guides

Practical guides to help you understand and manage Claude Code's limits — so you can spend more time coding and less time waiting.

How Claude Code Rate Limits Work

5-hour burst windows, 7-day sustained limits, what counts toward your quota, and strategies for pacing your usage across plan tiers.

Understanding Claude Code's Context Window

How the ~200K token context window works, what auto-compaction does, why quality degrades as context fills, and how to manage sessions for better results.