Short answer: A Claude Code session usually stops for one of three reasons — it hit a rate limit (429), the process crashed, or it stalled waiting on something. The fix is a watchdog that detects the stop and resumes the session where it left off. Power Claude does exactly that, locally, in one click (or fully automatically).
The three ways a session dies
- Rate limit (429) — the account hit its 5-hour or weekly cap and the agent halts mid-task.
- Crash — the extension host or CLI process exits (an error, an OOM, a closed window).
- Stall — the session hangs waiting on a tool, a prompt, or a network call that never returns.
In every case the cost is the same: you come back to a half-finished run and have to reconstruct where it was.
Why “just restart” is not enough
Restarting by hand loses the in-flight context, and you often do not notice the stall for a while — so a run you left to finish overnight is barely further along in the morning. Long agentic sessions need active detection, not a manual check.
How auto-resume works
A resilience watchdog watches the session signals Claude Code already writes to ~/.claude/. When it sees a crashed, stalled, or rate-limited session it surfaces a one-click recovery — or, on a 429, rotates to a healthy account and resumes in the same tab automatically, so the agent keeps going.
Doing it with Power Claude
Power Claude’s watchdog classifies each session as healthy, crashed, stalled, or rate-limited and offers recovery without retyping context. Paired with multi-account rotation, a 429 mid-task becomes a brief switch instead of a dead run. It is a local VS Code & Cursor extension (plus a pc CLI), makes no cloud calls with your code, and is free for 7 days, no card.
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Frequently asked questions
Why does my Claude Code session keep stopping?
Most often it hit a rate limit (429), the process crashed, or it stalled waiting on a tool or network call. A watchdog that detects the stop and resumes the session removes the lost time.
Can I resume a Claude Code session after it crashes?
Yes. Power Claude detects crashed, stalled, and rate-limited sessions and offers one-click resume in the same tab, preserving context — no manual restart or retyping.
Does Power Claude resume automatically?
On a rate limit it can rotate to a healthy account and resume automatically; for crashes and stalls it surfaces a one-click recovery so you stay in control.
Will I lose my work if a session dies?
The session history Claude Code writes locally is preserved; Power Claude uses it to resume where you left off rather than starting over.