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#81

Today, I will commit a new Auto Mode (with DuckDB) that uses machine learning to understand your actual token limits, not hardcoded solution.

I'm working on a wrapper for these terminal agent coders that reads directly from them... you might want to consider that approach? I hope to have it here on ShowHN as soon as its better tested but email me if you want in on the private beta :)

Re: Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs

#84
post #79

nice ship! I wrote a blog post on how to observe trends over time for a team via OTel, but I prefer your method for individual development! https://ma.rtin.so/posts/monitoring-claude-code-with-datadog...

I like this solution, I had tinkered with the Otel hoping to get un-redacted prompt and responses but had no luck. Did you perhaps get deeper into what data was useful?

Re: Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs

#86
post #54

I really like this idea as I find Claude's transparency frustrating. Claude code's killer features revolve around better tools to manage context and limits vs the desktop app (compact and the % remaining until auto compact), but it's not enough. If I can offer any advice, it's that the high use of emojis in a project readme (at least for me) looks so unprofessional and makes me worry that a project was vibe -coded in…

> looks so unprofessional and makes me worry that a project was vibe -coded in the sense that the AI was possibly not babysat to the extent I think they should. That's just me, though

The irony of comments like this on software designed entirely for ai coding...

Re: Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs

#87

Today, I will commit a new Auto Mode (with DuckDB) that uses machine learning to understand your actual token limits, not hardcoded solution.

I'm working on a wrapper for these terminal agent coders that reads directly from them... you might want to consider that approach? I hope to have it here on ShowHN as soon as its better tested but email me if you want in on the private beta :)

actually reading more about how you ingest ~/.claude/projects//.jsonl the wrapper method is probably over kill..

how about making it a tool that claude can use directly?

Re: Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs

#88
post #54

I really like this idea as I find Claude's transparency frustrating. Claude code's killer features revolve around better tools to manage context and limits vs the desktop app (compact and the % remaining until auto compact), but it's not enough. If I can offer any advice, it's that the high use of emojis in a project readme (at least for me) looks so unprofessional and makes me worry that a project was vibe -coded in…

It strikes me as very much a current aesthetic in younger companies or smaller startups, maybe highly influenced by Notion. No one makes a list or page or calendar invite in my current company without choosing an emoji for it.

Re: Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs

#89
post #71

Very neat! Is the limit on Pro really only 7k tokens? So less than 7k words? I feel like I get more out of that. It feels like that would blow up pretty quickly with an ongoing chat, but I never hit that. Or is this a Claude Code specific limit? I haven't used Claude Code extensively yet.

pro is the $20/mo plan that they recently started allowing access to claude code.. but i’ve heard users hit the rate limit with a few queries.. so imo that sounds about right. the chat interface has its own limits separate from claude code.

Has to be wrong. I'm on that subscription as I wanted to reinforce my opinion that it's still shit for devs that actually have experience, like it was a few months ago.

While my plan didn't pan out, cuz it was way too effective, I can confidently say that I'm going through 3-6k tokens per prompt on average, and usually get around 3 hours of usage before I'm hitting the rate limit.

The limit is probably closer to 300k then Also the chat interface doesn't have a separate limit, once you hit it via Claude code, you cannot use the website either anymore.

Maybe it's a 7k limit per prompt? Dunno if I exceeded that before

Re: Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs

#90
For a reference point, it says my max session limit in the past was ~337,492 tokens and I have the Max20 plan and 99% use Opus.

My total tokens used since I started using Claude Code on May 27th was 1,374,439,311 worth around $3397.34.

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