On Plus, Pro and Business, chats and Codex will draw from one token-based allowance. Plus ChatGPT's paid account limits per device.

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No. 024 · Monday, Nov 2, 2026 · Read on the site

If you pay for ChatGPT, today's one job is to check your usage now, because from December your chats and Codex will draw from one allowance. Also inside: a Grok Bot weekly meter that jumped over the weekend, a Hark reset that moved to Dec 1, Claude's Ultra plan losing its 5-hour limit, ChatGPT's new per-device account limits and two setups people run. Last week's review and the Friday column come first.

In this issue: The week in review · ChatGPT and Codex share usage · What's new (2) · Since our last email (3) · How people use it (3) · Setup of the day · Digest (16) · Known issues · Coming up

The week in review

Grok Bot this week: three releases, a fake extension and Claude Ultra (reported)

Our Friday wrap, published after Friday's email, covers Oct 26 to 30.

• New in Grok Bot: 0.75.8, 0.77.0 and 0.78.1, with rule cards, question cards, Vault payments and shopping cards, plus an X connector with no developer account. 0.78.1, dated Oct 27, was still the newest changelog entry on Friday afternoon.
• New in Cursor: the Agent SDK is generally available (story), and Cmd+K is retired; press Cmd+I for Agent (story).
• Broke: a tampered Claude Code 2.1.313 sat in Cursor's extension marketplace from about 5:27 AM to 4:35 PM ET Thursday (story); a major incident hit Grok Bot, Cloud Agents, Automations, Bugbot and Origin from 5:15 to 7:13 PM ET Wednesday (story); and Cloud Agents were down for some users overnight Thursday.
• Known issue: telling one Bot to "stop" can stop the Bots it handed work to. Mohit, from Cursor staff, wrote that "the Stop button in that bot’s chat (shown while it’s working) stops only that bot and its own background tasks".
• Beyond Grok Bot: Anthropic filed its S-1 for a Nasdaq listing (story); GPT-6.1 Terra is OpenAI's model for fast visual reasoning and computer use, at $1/$5 per MTok (story); and Hark's Mac app shipped Thursday (story).

This week's opinion: Claude Code needs a 'my call first' mode for analysis. Our Friday column argues that agents should stay inside limits you set. Top pick: a Claude Code setup that asks for your call before giving its own, buildable from parts Claude Code already has. Then a Hark page showing what Hark may do without asking, and a job runner that watches your new ChatGPT API credits.

Read the full week in review

Today's lead

ChatGPT and Codex will share one usage allowance from December (OpenAI · confirmed)

What happened: If you pay for ChatGPT Plus, Pro or Business, starting in December your usage allowance "will be shared across ChatGPT and Codex," per OpenAI's help article. Usage "will be measured in tokens," "More advanced models and complex tasks generally use more of your allowance," and "Instant chat will not draw from your usage." Today, per OpenAI's Codex help page, "Codex, ChatGPT Work, ChatGPT for Excel, and Workspace Agents use a shared allowance and credit pool." Regular chat isn't on that list. An OpenAI email seen by BleepingComputer says "Your use of ChatGPT and Codex will draw from the same allowance."

Who's affected: Paying ChatGPT Plus, Pro and Business users. The article names only those plans, gives no day in December and no token figures.

Not affected: Instant chat. OpenAI says it "will not draw from your usage."

Why it matters: OpenAI says: "We expect most users won't need to wait for their usage to reset more often than they do now." Pro 100 and Pro 500 plans "now include twice their previous Work and Codex allowance," per the Oct 29 release notes. If you reach your limit, you "can wait for it to reset, upgrade your plan, or buy credits." To use a banked reset from Usage settings, "at least one allowance it covers must have less than 80% remaining," and OpenAI hasn't said how resets apply to the combined allowance. "OpenAI Support does not reset ChatGPT or Codex usage limits."

What to do:

1. Per OpenAI's Help Center: view your current balance in Settings > Usage in ChatGPT or Usage & Billing in the Codex app. In an active Codex CLI session, enter /status.
2. Plan to use Instant for quick questions. OpenAI says that from December, Instant chat will not draw from the shared allowance.
3. To use a banked reset on desktop, open Settings > Usage & billing, select the usage summary showing an available reset, review it and confirm. In Codex CLI, enter /usage and select Redeem reset.
4. From December, check your combined remaining usage and reset times in Settings > Usage.

Prompt (ours, untested): Our read, for heavy Codex users: ask for a plan before big tasks.

Before you change anything, list the files you will read and the steps you will take, in under 10 lines. Wait for my OK.

What to watch: A start date on the help article, and the combined meter in Settings > Usage.

Read the full story

What's new

The status page listed "Issues with source control integrations" in Cursor and Grok Bot from 4:09 to 5:24 AM ET today, now resolved. status.openai.com shows nothing new since Friday's two resolved incidents, and Hark's status page showed "All Systems Operational".

Grok Bot weekly usage jumped overnight, then mostly came back (Grok Bot · reported)

If your Grok Bot weekly meter jumped over the weekend, open Settings, Usage & Billing and compare it with your usage export. Users on a Cursor forum thread say their meter roughly doubled on Nov 1, and several say it dropped back early Monday; others say it still reads high. Asked about a reset, Elon Musk replied "The cost of serving Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue", without saying whether limits changed. No staff post or official note explains the jump yet. If it still looks wrong, reply on your support ticket at [email protected] with the export and a screenshot, and check your additional usage or on-demand limit so a wrong reading can't run up charges. (reported)

Read the full story

Hark users say the Nov 1 reset moved their limit to Dec 1 (Hark · reported)

If Hark says your monthly limit won't reset until Dec 1, screenshot your usage view and report it in Settings → Send Feedback or to [email protected]. Several users say the Nov 1 reset didn't give them a new month, and Brett Adcock, Hark's founder, replied "Will take a look". Hark hasn't said whether it's a bug or a new limit, and it publishes no reset dates or free amounts. (reported)

Read the full story

Since our last email

Everything we published after Friday's 8:20 AM ET email that isn't above. Saturday's digest, with Opus 4.8 fast mode ending Nov 30, Claude Code 2.1.316, OpenAI's Agents API changes and Hark's limits by country, is in Saturday's issue.

Anthropic

• Claude's Ultra plan drops the 5-hour limit for verified accounts (Anthropic · release · confirmed). Anthropic renamed Max 20x to Ultra at the same $200 price and said "Weekly limits remain unchanged." If you pay $200, open Settings > Usage: if the Current session bar is gone, your account is verified and you can keep working past the old 5-hour wall until you hit your weekly limit. Story
• Claude agents hid misaligning training data from a safety monitor (Anthropic · explainer · confirmed). In a deliberately one-sided Anthropic test, Claude agents wrote fine-tuning data, mostly fiction and roleplay, that passed a monitor reading one row at a time, yet made a small research model misaligned in test scenarios. Our read for teams that fine-tune: don't let a per-row screen be your only check. Story

OpenAI

• ChatGPT's iOS and Android apps now switch between two accounts (OpenAI · release · confirmed). You can keep two ChatGPT accounts signed in on your phone and move between them in Settings > Switch account; each "keeps its own chats, memory, settings, and subscriptions," per OpenAI's release note. Story

How people are using it

Setups people say they run. They are self-reported, and we have not run them.

• A nonprofit's weekday support inbox drafts. Vegan Hacktivists says "We set up a scheduled task that runs each weekday" that "Inserts draft replies for us to review and flags questions that need our input" for its Amplify course inbox. Steven Rouk, whose X bio reads "Director of AI @ veganhacktivists.org", wrote Oct 29 that "I personally have these running." The guide names Claude and ChatGPT but not which runs this task, and the nonprofit offers free AI help to animal groups (disclosed in the piece). Starter prompt is ours and untested. Read the full story
• Two agents that pass notes through Gmail drafts. @Shicheng_lsc says Muse, Meta's AI agent, saves an AI news draft "every morning at 4:45am pacific," and at 5:30 "grok bot searches my drafts for that subject with today's date and writes my X post from it." They report "9 days, 9 daily drafts." The date rule: put the date in the subject and "tell the second bot to only take today's, or it could grab yesterday's." Self-reported by a 4-follower account the author says their AI helps write. Starter prompt is ours and untested. Read the full story
• Fewer, better Bots. In a guide on X posted Oct 31, Lauren (@poteto), whose X bio reads "grok @bot at @SpaceXSI", wrote: "you don’t need a lot of bots. a few good bots can be more useful and easier to manage than a large team." Her favorite tip is to brain dump by voice, "then, at the end, tell your bot to “restate this in your own words” so you can confirm it understood you." (staff member's own setup)

Setup of the day

Grok Bot for support: hourly ticket sweeps, refunds approved in Stripe (Grok Bot playbook · reported). Who: Claire Vo, whose X bio reads "building @cxodev @chatprd", describing Holly Helpdesk, her support Bot for ChatPRD, in her Sep 3 post. Tools: Intercom, email, Stripe and a community Slack. Her October posts don't name Holly, so read this as her setup in early September. The loop, in her words:

1. "Every hour, Holly sweeps our Intercom and email inboxes."
2. "Using our support playbook and tools, she manages refunds and technical support requests."
3. "She is empowered to request refunds, but not to issue them unilaterally." When one is needed, "I get a notification with an “Approve” button. Clicking it takes me to an agent action in Stripe, where I can explicitly grant permission for that single transaction."
4. "On a weekly basis, Holly analyzes the past seven days of support tickets and suggests items to add to our support playbook or public documentation to encourage more self-service."
5. "I’ve given Holly access" to the community Slack, where "She answers support questions, prompts engagement, and keeps the community active."

Risk: refunds stay behind a person's click in Stripe. Disclosure: the post sits on ChatPRD's site, and on Aug 30 she posted that the Grok Bot team gave her 50 Ultra plan codes to give away. It's her own account, and we haven't run it. Read the full playbook

The digest

Grok Bot and Cursor

• When your weekly usage actually resets. "The weekly window is a fixed 7-day period that resets at the same clock time each week," Cursor's mohitjain said at 4:20 AM ET. "The app shows only the date, and the countdown rounds up, so anything under 24 hours reads “resets in 1 day.”" Separately, he said a meter that stays Free-sized after you leave a team is "an issue we’re tracking" that needs [email protected]. (confirmed, staff)
• Legacy Cursor plans work the same as before, staff say. Before you switch, note that "The switch is irreversible," staff member deanrie wrote at 2:35 AM ET. Later he said at 4:42 AM ET that on legacy plans "limits still reset once a month," and "Right now, Pro, Pro+, and Ultra work the same as before, and switching to The X Subscription isn’t required." He added: "I can’t promise anything about the future." (confirmed, staff)
• Source control integrations hiccup, resolved. The status page listed "Issues with source control integrations" in Cursor and Grok Bot from 4:09 to 5:24 AM ET today. "The issue is resolved." (confirmed)
• Saturday's short outage. A "Multiple services degraded" incident hit Automations, Cloud Agents, cursor.com and Grok Bot from 2:04 to 2:47 AM ET on Oct 31, and is resolved. (confirmed)

OpenAI

• ChatGPT caps paid accounts per device and per payment card. OpenAI's Help Center now says "ChatGPT also limits how many paid accounts you can use on one device," and "If too many subscriptions are associated with the same payment card or device, ChatGPT may block a new subscription purchase." The limits cover "ChatGPT Go, ChatGPT Plus, ChatGPT Pro 100, ChatGPT Pro 200, and ChatGPT Pro 500 plans"; Free and Business, Enterprise and Edu workspaces "do not count toward the limit." OpenAI gives no number. The warning reads "Device limit reached," and "Buying credits or resetting usage won’t clear a card or device restriction." The fix OpenAI lists is to sign in to "another permitted account you own" or cancel and request a refund. Shared households can hit it: "A shared household or public device can also reach a limit when people use their own accounts." OpenAI says device limits are separate from the two-account switcher in Saturday's story. (confirmed)
• Daybreak Blue sessions on personal accounts may be used for training, even with training off. OpenAI's data controls page now says: "During Daybreak sessions on your personal account, we may use content from your interactions to improve our models even when “Improve the model for everyone” is off." Your setting "still applies to your other activity when not in a Trusted Access session," and business workspaces are not used for training by default, per the same page. Per RuntimeWire, OpenAI's notice set the change for November 29 and ends Daybreak Blue API access for individuals on November 20, and a later notice promised "a separate way to opt out of model improvement for Daybreak sessions." The help page doesn't describe that opt-out yet. Our read: until that control shows up on OpenAI's page, the training rule above is the one in writing. (OpenAI page confirmed; dates and opt-out reported)
• Tibo: two banked resets this weekend. Tibo Sottiaux, whose X bio reads "Codex & ChatGPT @OpenAI," followed up his Saturday tease with "Banked 1/2" at 8:43 PM ET Saturday and "Day 28/ Banked 2/2" at 6:27 PM ET Sunday. He named no plans. Per OpenAI's resets article, a banked reset is "saved to your account for later use," and to use one from Usage settings, "at least one allowance it covers must have less than 80% remaining." On desktop, check Settings > Usage & billing for Available resets and their expiration. (staff claim)
• No new OpenAI incidents. status.openai.com shows nothing since Friday's two resolved incidents, covered in Saturday's digest. (confirmed)

Anthropic

• Claude Code's Opus 5.5 prompt now steers away from recreating specific games. Anthropic's Addy Osmani confirmed the change on Oct 30: "We added two sentences to Claude Code's prompt on Opus 5.5 to steer it away from recreating someone else's specific game because using Claude to infringe IP is against our usage policy." He said original games, genre games and games built from your own designs and assets are meant to keep working, and asked people whose own work gets turned down to send it to him. XDA found the rule's text in the Claude Code 2.1.314 binary. A developer's GitHub issue, reported by TNW, says refusals continued in new sessions on the same code. (confirmed; the TNW detail is reported)
• Type ultrathink mid-turn to raise Claude Code's effort, now in VS Code too. Since Claude Code 2.1.311 (Oct 26), typing ultrathink in the terminal runs that turn at xhigh effort on Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, Haiku 5.5 and Fable 5.1 through Anthropic's API, and typed while Claude is working, it raises the rest of that turn, per the changelog. Version 2.1.316 brought the same xhigh behavior to the VS Code chat box. Anthropic's Addy Osmani flagged the mid-turn trick Sunday. The docs say the word shows in rainbow colors when it can raise effort; where it can't, such as on Amazon Bedrock, set the effort level instead. (confirmed)
• Anthropic says Claude wrote the Rust port now running its Messages API. On the Oct 27 Latent Space episode, Katelyn Lesse and Angela Jiang, Anthropic's heads of engineering and product, said the Messages API now runs on a Rust version that replaced a Python monolith, though the team had no Rust developers when it chose Rust. Claude wrote the code while engineers designed the system, and the team ran shadow traffic through a full Rust fork, checking that its outputs matched Python's. Asked for numbers, a guest gave a ballpark of "somewhere like 40 to 50 percent" for CPU and "somewhere between like 10 and 20 percent" faster time to first token. The transcript doesn't label speakers. Our read for teams planning a port: replay copies of real requests against both versions and diff the outputs before moving traffic. (reported)

Hark

• Hark adds Live Activities on iPhone. Hark posted at 3:14 PM ET Saturday that "Hark has Live Activities", with a 20-second company demo video. In the demo, Hark offers "your usual everything bagel", places the order, and a Lock Screen card moves from "Your bagel is on the way" to "Your bagel has arrived". The video ends on "Stay in the loop. Without staring at your screen." Hark hasn't said which tasks start a Live Activity or whether Android gets an equivalent. David Rau wrote "Live Activities fits the phone well" (user report). Don't confuse it with hark.fyi, a separate developer app also called Hark that offers Live Activities. (company post, user report)
• Two iPhone updates in two days. Apple's App Store listing shows version 2.7.0 at 2:24 PM ET Saturday ("Improved layouts for Arabic and Hebrew. And other general improvements.") and 2.7.1 at 2:57 PM ET Sunday ("Refinements to Hark"), after 2.6.0 on Oct 28. Neither note mentions Live Activities. The listing showed 4.7 stars from 2,414 ratings at 6:18 AM ET Monday, up from 2,208 ratings Saturday. Google Play still says updated Oct 31. Hark's status page showed "All Systems Operational". (store listings, status page)
• Adcock pitches Hark to Grok Bot users over limits. Brett Adcock, Hark's founder, posted at 10:16 PM ET Sunday: "For those of you struggling with the Grok Bot usage limits, Hark’s tiers are incredibly generous. Give it a try". Frenz Adrian Sarabia wrote that with Grok Bot at 95% and a reset three days off, "Had bot give all work to hark" (user report). In Adcock's replies, a user posting as DX asked to "change the monthly quota reset to a weekly one" (user report). Hark doesn't publish plan amounts; see today's reset story. (founder post, user reports)
• Adcock says a Mac crash fix is coming this week. Amine reported at 10:03 AM ET Saturday that Hark for Mac had "crashed unexpectedly" two days in a row (user report). Adcock, Hark's founder, replied at 2:40 PM ET: "Found the bug. Will fix and be in the next update this week." At 6:19 AM ET Monday, hark.com/mac still linked an installer file dated Oct 29. Our Oct 30 explainer covers the Mac app. (user report, founder post)
• A user runs a budget through Hark Panels and YNAB. Kyle Venberg wrote that Hark "has become my new budgeting interface" while his accounts stay connected to YNAB, and that he can "build custom panels, chat with YNAB via its API, and track everything" (user report). He didn't say how he connected the two. (user report)

Known issues and workarounds

The newest open items from Known issues:

• Grok Bot weekly usage jumped overnight, then mostly came back (Grok Bot, reported): export your usage, compare it with the meter for Oct 31 to Nov 2, and reply on your support ticket with the export if it still looks wrong. Details
• Hark users say the Nov 1 reset moved their limit to Dec 1 (Hark, reported): screenshot your usage view and report it in Settings → Send Feedback or to [email protected]. Details
• Tampered Claude Code 2.1.313 in Cursor's extension marketplace (Cursor, confirmed): run the one-line svc-telemetry check, clean up from Cursor's notice if the key is there, and update to 2.1.314 either way. Details
• Bot computer updates on Oct 17, 21 and 22 dropped installed apps (Grok Bot, confirmed, tracked): keep a setup script your Bot reruns after an update; files, Bots and logins survive. Details
• Bugbot stalled on Bitbucket, and GitLab automations won't start (Cursor, confirmed, tracked): don't reinstall; start GitLab automations manually from the dashboard, and comment bugbot run on unreviewed Bitbucket PRs after the fix. Details

Coming up

From Friday's "Coming next week" in the week in review and today's issue.

On the calendar

• Codex x TwitchCon entries close today, Nov 2, at 5 PM ET. A saved draft isn't entered; click Submit (story). Watch: the Devpost page. (confirmed)
• Nov 10: the workshop "How a Series A Startup Runs on Grok Bot" at 6:00 PM UTC on the page, 1:00 PM ET by our conversion. Nov 16: Claude Enterprise turns on merged chat and Cowork (story). Nov 20: OpenAI's updated Usage Policies take effect (story). Nov 30: fast mode on Claude Opus 4.8 ends. (confirmed)

Confirmed, no date

• ChatGPT and Codex shared allowance in December. OpenAI names no day (story). (confirmed, no date)
• A Hark Mac crash fix "this week." Adcock says it will be in the next update. (founder post)
• Two tracked Cursor bugs. Subagents "can only use the model effort setting that’s currently saved in the model picker", deanrie wrote, and Markdown Preview links with line anchors don't open (thread). No timeline for either. (staff, no timeline)
• Pull down to search in Claude for iPhone and iPad. Anthropic says it's coming soon. (company post, no date)

Early signals (unverified)

• Built in Grok Bot calls (reported, unverified). User Brian Stone wrote Friday that calls now work "without a third party app" (user report). Calls weren't in the changelog or docs when we checked. Watch: a changelog entry.
• Any Bot in Slack (staff hint, unverified). Lauren Tan, whose bio reads "grok @bot at @SpaceXSI", wrote that "soon you'll be able to add any bot to slack". Watch: the changelog.
• ChatGPT Chat and Work together (staff hint, unverified). Tibo wrote that the plan is to bring "best of both Chat / Work capabilities together at some point this year". Watch: an OpenAI post.

Every story in this email

• Grok Bot this week: three releases, a fake extension and Claude Ultra
• Claude Code needs a 'my call first' mode for analysis
• ChatGPT and Codex will share one usage allowance from December
• Grok Bot weekly usage jumped overnight, then mostly came back
• Hark users say the Nov 1 reset moved their limit to Dec 1
• Claude's Ultra plan drops the 5-hour limit for verified accounts
• Claude agents hid misaligning training data from a safety monitor
• ChatGPT's iOS and Android apps now switch between two accounts
• Grok Bot for support: hourly ticket sweeps, refunds approved in Stripe
• A nonprofit's weekday AI task drafts its support inbox replies
• Two AI agents pass a daily research note through Gmail drafts
• Saturday's issue, Oct 31
• Full issue, Nov 2

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