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Re: Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why

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I didn't think statusline ate tokens, is this true?

No, when you run it Claude just writes a bash script used to generate the status line. Not sure what they're talking about.

I set it up and saw the token notifier down the bottom slowly ticking up. I'll try again and report back, perhaps I misread something? I was surprised something like thst (which I assumed was an API call) was trickling token usage.

Re: Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, when you run it Claude just writes a bash script used to generate the status line. Not sure what they're talking about.

I set it up and saw the token notifier down the bottom slowly ticking up. I'll try again and report back, perhaps I misread something? I was surprised something like thst (which I assumed was an API call) was trickling token usage.

When was it ticking up? The status line only updates after each turn. If you submitted a turn, tokens were used. The status line itself is a bash script, you can go look at it.

Re: Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why

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In 95% of cases it is because you had a large context for which the cache expired.

The amount of people I see running around at 800k context and wondering why they are burning through tokens is always surprising.

Yep, even with cache hits that like submitting uncached 80k-token prompts over and over.

My Claude.md + framework stuff has it tell me when it recommends /clear before the next prompt (and write itself handoff notes) and I rarely see >100k context size even on large work.

Re: Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why

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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 th…

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!

Re: Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why

#76
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.

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