Your agent hits a usage limit.
It keeps working anyway.
When the Claude or Codex account an agent runs on exhausts its quota, AgentsRoom hands the same conversation to another account you are already signed in to, and the work continues.
No restart, no lost context, no waiting for the 5-hour or weekly window to reset. It turns several smaller subscriptions into something that behaves like one much bigger plan.
One conversation, two accounts. The handover happens where the wall used to be.
Every Claude and Codex subscription is capped by rolling windows: a short one measured in hours, a longer one measured in a week. Hit the cap and the CLI stops mid-task. The agent was three files into a refactor, it had the whole plan in its head, and now it is frozen until a clock you cannot see runs out.
The usual fixes are all bad. You wait. Or you open a second account by hand, and start the conversation over from an empty prompt because the session lives inside the first account. Or you pay for the largest plan on the menu so the wall arrives later.
AgentsRoom takes the fourth path. It watches for the moment the CLI declares itself out of quota, picks another account you are signed in to, moves the conversation transcript across, relaunches the session on that account, and tells the agent to pick the work back up where it stopped. From your side it looks like nothing happened, except a line in the terminal naming the account that took over.
A usage limit costs more than the wait
The wait is never just the wait. A five-hour window that opens at 3pm is the rest of your afternoon, and the task you were mid-way through is still unfinished when it reopens.
Restarting the conversation costs real money. Re-explaining the feature, the files, the decisions already taken burns tokens on the new account before it does a single useful thing.
Unattended runs die silently. A scheduled task at 2am, a long backlog ticket, a team workflow: they stop at the limit and you find out in the morning, with nothing done.
It happens repeatedly. This is not an edge case you hit once a quarter. For anyone running several agents in parallel, it is a weekly tax.
Several smaller plans, one uninterrupted day
The reason people ask for this feature is rarely convenience. It is the bill.
One large subscription
- : You pay the top tier to push the wall further away, not to remove it.
- : The cap is still there, just later in the day, and usually at the worst moment.
- : A single account means a single quota: two agents working in parallel burn it twice as fast.
- : When it runs out, everything stops at once. There is nothing to fall back on.
Two or three smaller plans
- : Each account carries its own independent quota and its own reset clock.
- : The first one to run out hands over to the next, mid-conversation, without you doing anything.
- : Total cost is often lower than the single top tier, for strictly more working hours.
- : An exhausted account is benched until its window resets, then rejoins the pool by itself.
AgentsRoom does not sell you the subscriptions and takes no cut of them. It simply stops the ones you already pay for from sitting idle while another is blocked.
What actually happens, step by step
Five steps, none of which need you.
The CLI says it is out of quota
AgentsRoom reads the agent's terminal output continuously and recognizes the provider's own usage-limit message. The detector is deliberately narrow: a warning that you are merely approaching a limit, or a quota panel showing 80 percent, never triggers anything.
The exhausted account is benched
It is marked unusable until its quota window resets, using the real reset time when the provider publishes one. This happens even when no other account is available, so the next agent you launch does not walk into the same wall.
A replacement is chosen
Among your other accounts for that provider, AgentsRoom keeps only those that are actually signed in on disk, not benched, and not already close to their own limit. It picks the one with the most quota left. Accounts you excluded are never considered.
The conversation moves across
For Claude, the session transcript lives inside the outgoing account's own directory, so it is copied into the incoming account's tree first. Without that step the session would resume empty, which is exactly the loss the feature exists to prevent. The original account keeps its copy untouched.
The agent resumes and carries on
The CLI is relaunched on the new account, resuming the same session with its full history, and receives a short instruction to continue the interrupted work rather than restart it. A line in the terminal names the account that took over, and the agent's account badge updates everywhere in the app.
How each provider isolates its accounts
The switch is built on the mechanism each CLI already provides, not on a wrapper around it.
Claude Code
An account is a directory holding its own credentials, sessions and project history. Switching means relaunching the CLI against another directory, which is why the transcript has to travel with the conversation. AgentsRoom handles that copy for you.
CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR
Codex
Codex isolates credentials the same way, but the conversation rollouts live in the per-project home AgentsRoom generates, which does not move when the bound account changes. The switch is therefore just a credential rebind and a resume.
CODEX_HOME
What people do today instead
Each of these is a real workaround, and each of them costs something.
Wait for the window to reset
Free, and the most expensive option there is. The agent holds a plan it will lose to a context compaction, the branch stays half-done, and any unattended run scheduled in that window never happens at all.
Switch account by hand
Workable if you happen to be watching. You still lose the conversation: the session belongs to the account that created it, so the new one starts from an empty prompt and you re-explain everything you already explained.
A shell wrapper or an account switcher
These swap the active credentials globally, outside your editor. They cannot know that one particular agent, in one particular project, just hit a wall mid-turn, and they have no way to carry that conversation across. They also move every other session with them.
Buy the biggest plan
This moves the wall, it does not remove it, and it scales badly: running four agents in parallel divides the same quota four ways. Several independent quotas absorb a burst that one large quota cannot.
A work account will not silently pay for personal work
Automatic switching is on by default because it is only useful when it is invisible, but it is never blind. Any account can be marked as never usable as a backup, which is the right answer when you keep a strict separation between an employer's subscription and your own, or between two clients. Every switch is announced in the agent's terminal and the account each agent runs on is visible on its card in the sidebar, so what is being billed to whom is never a guess.
FAQ
Do I need two subscriptions for this to do anything?
Yes. The feature needs at least two accounts of the same provider that are both signed in. With a single account there is nothing to switch to, and AgentsRoom behaves exactly as it did before: the agent stops and tells you when the quota resets.
Does the agent lose the conversation when it switches?
No, that is the entire point. The session is resumed with its full transcript on the new account. For Claude, the transcript is copied into the incoming account's directory first, because a Claude session physically lives inside the account that created it.
Is it on by default?
Yes, and it does nothing until you have a second account signed in for that provider. You can turn it off in Settings, under AI providers and accounts.
Can I stop one specific account from being used as a backup?
Yes. Each account has a per-account opt-out. Excluded accounts are never chosen as a fallback, but they keep working normally when an agent is explicitly bound to them.
What if every account is out of quota?
The agent stops, and the terminal says so, naming the account and the reset time the CLI reported. That is the same outcome as today, with an explanation instead of silence.
Could it switch by mistake and burn my second subscription?
The detector only fires on a provider message that says the limit has been reached. Warnings that you are approaching a limit, quota panels, and percentages are all ignored by construction. A short cooldown after a switch also prevents a resumed conversation from re-triggering on its own replayed history.
Does the exhausted account come back?
Yes. It is benched until its quota window resets, using the provider's own reset time when available, and it rejoins the pool automatically after that. Nothing to click.
Does this work for unattended runs?
That is where it matters most. Scheduled tasks, backlog tickets and team workflows run with nobody watching, and a usage limit used to end them silently. The switch happens the same way whether you are at the keyboard or asleep.
Which providers support it?
Claude Code and Codex, the two CLIs that expose a real multi-account mechanism today. The detection layer is provider-agnostic, so any CLI that gains isolated accounts can be added without redesigning anything.
Is this against the providers' terms?
AgentsRoom does not create accounts, share credentials or pool other people's quota. It uses subscriptions you own and are signed in to, through the account-isolation mechanism each CLI documents. It is the same thing you would do by hand, minus the interruption.
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