Anthropic just taught its coding agent how to be interrupted. Sounds small. Engineers spent 50 years solving this exact problem for normal software. Databases got transactions so a crash can't leave your data half-written. Unix got SIGTERM so a process can flush its buffers before dying. Even your laptop asks apps to save your work before shutting down. AI agents had none of that. Hit your usage limit mid-task and the thing just stopped, sometimes with a file half-edited, tests updated for…

ClaudeDevs@ClaudeDevs13h ago

Claude Code will now try to find a graceful stopping point when you hit your 5-hour limit mid-task, instead of cutting off mid-edit. It gets a small, fixed allowance pulled from your weekly limit to wrap up what it can. https://t.co/2IA5z4En6I