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  • You can't ask Claude if your quota ran out. You have to wait for the reset...
    by underlines
  • for claude, it's response headers contain available usage, you can get it there. My deepseek harness plugin auto stops asking things when I am at 80% to allow inflight prompts to finish.
    by chews
  • I care more about your experience. I'd read the blog post of the story behind this.
    by jasonjmcghee
  • Full story if anyone is interested - https://www.kelviq.com/blog/claude-code-usage-limits-where-t...
    by sachinneravath
  • I created a custom status line to see/track everything I need: https://github.com/dsebastien/claude-epic-status-line

    That avoids surprises

    by dSebastien
  • how in god's name did you blow your quota in 10 minutes?!?! Are you just queuing up a dozen agents at once to have a "team", putting them all on highest effort, and then letting them run hog wild without having you review each change it wants to make and accept it first?

    I must be using claude wrong....I never run out of quota.

    I'm genuinely curious what you are doing that would eat your quota that fast because that sounds legitimately insane.

    by munch-o-man
  • Pretty cool tool! Congrats! Not sure if I'm missing something but this tells you where your tokens went, breakdown per day/tool. So the "why" is still a question left for the user to answer. Can be something like "Because I was missing a good CLAUDE.md file so it had to explore the whole repo before doing any work" or anything else. Just my take.
    by luciandan
  • Having a good statusline is key! I use https://github.com/lpsgverrilla/lps-statusline
    by gverrilla
  • 23 em-dashes in the span of a single README. I gotta hand it to Anthropic. They seriously managed to find a completely legal way to sell crack to crack addicts using other crack addicts as their unpaid sales force.
    by nonameiguess
  • In 95% of cases it is because you had a large context for which the cache expired.
    by sva_
  • Yeah. I like the way Claude Design handles this: if you come back to a chat after the cache expires, the chat UI shows a message like "start a new chat to save 300k tokens" or whatever. It's pretty nice if you're working in multiple design sessions and are quota-constrained.

    Surprised they haven't brought the same UX to CC.

    by enraged_camel
  • The amount of people I see running around at 800k context and wondering why they are burning through tokens is always surprising.
    by bearjaws
  • I genuinely don't even understand how people run out of tokens with the basic subscription. I had Claude write an entire app that has completely replaced Adobe Illustrator for my specific usecases (mostly inking sketches, and embellishing generated SVGs). It does everything exactly the way I want and has much better ergonomics (blender hotkeys ftw) and the whole thing took me like 700k tokens over the course of a couple days.

    Do people just let Opus ultra extra max thinking run amok on their whole codebase with a single context? I don't even think I could even design sensible features faster, I'm the limiting factor here, the robot pretty much oneshots everything I ask for.

    by thot_experiment
  • Token usage is generally lower in greenfield projects.
    by PhilippGille
  • I made an "amateur hour" error with Codex. Given Anthropic's recent reliability problems I thought I'd take a little time to try Codex with their $20/mo plan. So I downloaded it and gave it a whirl, not realizing that the default model was gpt-5.6-sol. Well after just an hour or two, I blew through my entire week's quota. Whoops! It would be cool if these harnesses could all graphically display your quota usage on the screen at all times.
    by ryandrake
  • I think there is a setting for that! AS a soft shill I'm building www.freepi.ai which is free ai inference in a Pi harness, and I'm going to take that suggestion and add it!
    by freepiai
  • You can enable showing the quota usage (and much more) in codex via /statusline
    by jdthedisciple
  • I just used Claude to write a plug-in which changed the bottom of the CLI to say:

       ( ) Usage: 34% (resets in 2h 47m) Context: 56% [Opus 4.6]
   auto mode on (shift+tab to cycle)
    That way if my usage starts shooting up, it's very easy to notice (and the color of "( )", which is a circle that I couldn't paste here, changes when it gets high, ensuring I don't miss it).

    I coupled that with a hook that watches for usage spiking (basically when I've been talking too long or did something to add a ton of context, so suddenly every turn sends a ton of context back, using up a ton of usage).

    Between the two I haven't hit usage caps in weeks.

    by hungryhobbit
  • Wanna share?
    by e40
  • I have something like this persistent in my waybar, with session, weekly, and fable usage, with little color coded percentage bars for each. Super helpful, highly recommend it.

    Great idea on the hook alert.

    I feel like the advent of LLMs has made a super customizable OS like Linux so, so much better than the closed source alternatives, and so much better than they were before.

    by ericd
  • This is actually a built-in Claude Code feature: `/statusline` will ask how you want it to look and set it up for you.
    by Tadpole9181