From 68bcad18755a00cb1354d8a6f263daee18946860 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steve <1407088+stevepridemore@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 10 May 2026 23:33:20 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] readme: clarify Claude plan requirement (Pro works, Max
 recommended)

Pro covers Claude Code access per official docs, so calling Max strictly
'required' overstated the constraint. Pro is enough for light/exploratory
use; Max is the right recommendation for daily-use deployments because the
nightly dream session can exhaust Pro's 5-hour usage window on a heavy
transcript day, causing the unattended run to abort mid-extraction.
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 README.md | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Slash-command wrappers (`/graph`, `/graph-ask`, `/graph-search`, `/graph-stats`,
 **Required:**
 - **Node.js 22+** and npm
 - **Docker** (Desktop on Windows/macOS, or Docker Engine on Linux) with Docker Compose v2
-- **Claude Code** and/or **Claude Desktop** with a **Max** subscription — the dream process runs as a scheduled Claude session, so you need a plan that covers extended sessions without per-token billing
+- **Claude Code** and/or **Claude Desktop** with a Claude plan that covers Claude Code access — Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise, or Console all work (the free Claude.ai plan does not include Claude Code). Pro is fine for light/exploratory use; **Max is recommended for daily-use deployments** because the nightly dream process can be transcript-heavy on a busy day, and an unattended run that exhausts Pro's 5-hour window will abort mid-extraction and skip that night.
 - A few hundred MB of disk for Neo4j + embeddings model
 
 **Optional:**