I Ran Two Claude Opus 4.7 5hr Sessions In One Day

In this post:Why I’m writing thisThe two blocks at a glanceSurface 1: per-turn detail with the session-metrics skillSurface 2: aggregate view in OpenTelemetry GrafanaSurface 3: the official Claude.ai usage panelSurface 4: the new Claude Code desktop statsWhat I actually shipped in those two blocksWhat stops me hitting the limitsWhat’s nextWhy I’m writing thisThe Claude Code rate-limit complaints have not stopped. Threads, Reddit, GitHub, Hacker News. People say their 5-hour blocks burn out in minutes. Anthropic acknowledged some of it and shipped fixes. The complaints are still loud. Update: the session-metric skill is now publicly available via my Claude Code plugin marketplace.I’m using Claude Max $100 plan and not in that camp. On 2026-04-17 I used both of my 5-hour blocks in the same day, both on Claude Opus 4.7 with the 1M context window, both inside Claude Code desktop app for MacOS. The blocks were not continuous - block 1 ran through the afternoon, I took a break, block 2 ran…