My backoff logged errors=1 492 times. It was answering the wrong question.
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The daemon's log contained the line `plan poller cadence: errors=1` four hundred and ninety-two times, and `errors=4` five times. A counter that is supposed to climb during an outage had spent its entire life bouncing off one. A third of my requests were being rate-limited and the backoff built to handle that never engaged once, because it was answering a question nobody had asked. Deleting ClaudeDeck · Part 2 of 2 1 2 🧪 Tested with herdr 0.8.0 · macOS The Plan Usage key on the Stream Deck renders my Claude plan’s 5-hour and 7-day windows with a countdown to the next reset. HerdDeck polls Anthropic’s OAuth usage endpoint to fill it. That endpoint is undocumented, which is a story I have already told on this blog and will be correcting later in this post.