Solutions
Stop sitting there waiting for your quota to reset
Write the prompt while you still have it in your head, hand it to a terminal pane on a countdown set for when your quota comes back, and walk away: Forkbench delivers it to that pane at the time you chose, so the agent starts the moment the limit lifts rather than whenever you next sit down.
You are mid-flow and the agent stops: rate limit reached. The work is still in your head, you know what the next three prompts should be, and there is nothing to do with any of that. So you either sit and wait, or you go and do something else and forget where you were. Either way the window when your quota comes back is a window you are usually not at the desk for, so it gets wasted too.
Nothing here is clever, and that is the point. A note goes to a pane with a timer on it. One countdown per pane, so you can queue a different next step in each of several panes and leave. Pair it with Sleep Control and the Mac stays awake with the lid shut, so a long run started at 3am actually finishes, and the machine stays reachable while it does. Worth knowing when you set the time: an agent's "weekly" limit is not always a calendar week, and Claude Code will tell you your own reset time if you ask it for your usage. Set the countdown a few minutes after that, not on it.
How it works
- 1Check when your limit actually resets rather than guessing. Claude Code reports its own usage and reset time.
- 2Write the next prompt now, while you still remember what you wanted, and save it as a note.
- 3Hand the note to the pane you want it to run in, with a countdown set for a few minutes after the reset.
- 4Turn on Sleep Control if you are closing the laptop, so the run finishes and the Mac stays reachable while it does.
- 5Come back to work that ran. Whatever the agent reports finished is still yours to accept or send back.
Straight about the guarantee: Forkbench does not detect rate limits and cannot see how much quota you have left, so the time is yours to choose, not something it works out for you. And if the Mac was asleep past the deadline, it deliberately holds and asks rather than firing a stale prompt at a session that has moved on.