Rate limits and credits¶

Two very different "the model said no" cases, and the loop refuses to treat them alike:

• A rate-limit window is waitable. The verdict enters WAITING/PROBING with a bounded probe: wait, re-test, and give up at --max-wait seconds. The phrases that classify as rate limits come from CURSORLOOP_RATE_LIMIT_LEXICON, so a vendor rewording is a config edit.
• Credit exhaustion is not waitable-with-a-deadline. No amount of waiting refills a balance, so the run fails fast with the reason in the audit trail. Classification phrases come from CURSORLOOP_BILLING_LEXICON.

Watch it happen live:

cursorloop watch     # shows WAITING/PROBING entries with their deadlines
cursorloop usage     # spend and turn counters for the window