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Stop Claude Running Out of Web Searches

Why Claude stops searching after 200 searches in a session, how it now refills by itself, the two settings that change it, and what they don't do

Alex Chen@nocodealex · 50,000+ follow on Instagram

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In the terminal, Claude can run 200 web searches in one session. Searches from its helper agents (subagents) count toward the same 200, so a big research job can use them all up before it finishes. When that happens, Claude is told to carry on with what it already found.

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