Your Claude Code session hit its limit at 2 a.m. — and resumed itself by morning.

Auto-resume Claude Code when your usage limit resets, with a live web dashboard you can drive from your phone.

The problem

You give Claude Code a long task and walk away. Twenty minutes in, it stops:

You've hit your limit · resets 2:30am

The quota comes back at 2:30 — but you're asleep. The work just sits there until you come back, notice it stalled, and press continue. Hours wasted for nothing.

The fix

cc-autoresume watches your Claude Code transcripts on disk, catches that limit message, parses the reset time, and the moment quota returns it resumes the session for you:

claude -p "<your continue message>" --resume <session-id>

Set it once and walk away. It's a single static Rust binary — no Python, no venv, no runtime to install — plus a live web dashboard so you can see and steer everything (even from your phone on the same Wi-Fi).

Highlights

🌙 Resumes while you sleep — detects the limit, waits for reset, resumes headless, retries with backoff if quota isn't fully back.
🎛️ Three modes — auto (just do it), ask (wait for your OK), off (notify only) — set globally, per-project, or per-session.
📊 Live dashboard — countdown rings, watcher status, usage stats, mode & message controls, all updating in real time over SSE.
🔭 Proactive setup — list sessions active in the last 24h and pre-write their resume message + mode before they ever hit a limit.
👀 Live conversation tail — watch a headless resume actually happen, streamed into the browser.
✍️ Per-session messages — every session can carry its own task-specific "here's where you were" instruction.
📱 Phone-ready — scan a QR in Settings to open the tokenized dashboard on your phone.
✨ Polished — light/dark theme, English/Vietnamese, inline help tooltips, friendly session titles.

Screenshots

Light themePhone

Pending resumes count down on animated rings; active sessions show a friendly title (their first prompt) instead of a raw UUID.

Install (macOS)

git clone git@github.com:cuongdev/cc-autoresume.git
cd cc-autoresume
./install.sh        # builds the release binary, installs to ~/.local/bin, loads the LaunchAgent

install.sh builds, drops cc-autoresume into ~/.local/bin, and registers a LaunchAgent so the watcher + dashboard run at login. Then open the dashboard:

cc-autoresume dashboard      # prints http://<lan-ip>:7317/?token=...

💤 Want it to wake a sleeping Mac exactly at reset time? install.sh prints an optional one-line sudoers entry for pmset. Skip it and the resume simply fires on the next wake.

CLI

Everything in the dashboard is also a command — use whichever you like.

CommandWhat it doescc-autoresume dashboardprint the tokenized dashboard URLcc-autoresume mode auto|ask|offset the global modecc-autoresume msg "<text>"set the global resume messagecc-autoresume list / statuslist pending resumescc-autoresume cancel [prefix]cancel one (by id prefix) or allcc-autoresume arm <prefix>confirm an ask-mode resumecc-autoresume fire <id>resume a session right nowcc-autoresume token [--rotate]print / rotate the dashboard tokencc-autoresume watchrun the daemon + dashboard (used by the LaunchAgent)

How it works

~/.claude/projects/**/*.jsonl        (Claude Code transcripts)
        │  tail (watcher, every 20s)
        ▼
   detect "limit · resets <time>"  →  parse reset time  →  arm a pending resume
        │                                  (per-session preset → per-project → global)
        ▼  at reset  (best-effort pmset wake)
   liveness check (lsof)  →  claude -p "<msg>" --resume <id>  →  backoff if still limited

The resume runs through a login shell so the revived session inherits your real PATH (Node-based hooks and friends keep working). State lives in ~/.claude/auto-resume/: config.json, pending/<id>.json, stats.json, sessions.json.

Configuration

~/.claude/auto-resume/config.json (camelCase):

KeyMeaningmodeauto / ask / offdefaultMessageglobal resume messageforceHeadlessresume in the background even if the old window is still openbackoff{ everySec, maxAttempts } retry policy when quota isn't fully backperProjectper-directory mode/message overridesportdashboard port (default 7317)tokendashboard access token (auto-generated)

Per-session presets live in sessions.json.

Security

The dashboard binds 0.0.0.0 (so your phone on the same Wi-Fi can reach it) and is guarded by a random bearer token over plain HTTP. Anyone with the token on your network can control resumes — which run claude — so use it on a trusted LAN and rotate the token from ⚙ Settings if it leaks. No TLS (out of scope). cc-autoresume never stores or transmits your Claude credentials; it only shells out to the claude CLI you already use.

Limitations

macOS-first — uses LaunchAgent + pmset + osascript notifications. Linux would need systemd + rtcwake + notify-send.
Waking a sleeping Mac at the exact reset time needs the optional sudoers entry; otherwise the resume fires on the next wake.
The official Claude usage % is server-side, so the dashboard shows locally-derived stats (limit hits, auto-resumes, active sessions), not the exact remaining percentage.

Development

cargo test                 # unit + integration tests
cargo clippy --all-targets # lints
cargo build --release      # static binary at target/release/cc-autoresume

The dashboard is a single src/web/index.html (vanilla JS, no build step) embedded into the binary at compile time via include_str!.

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Claude Auto Resume