Claude Usage Megathread

Came across this today:

• Claude Usage Limits Discussion Megathread Ongoing

Interesting Tidbids

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From “B. CLAUDE CODE CLI WORKAROUNDS”: add this to ~/.claude/settings.json

{
  "model": "sonnet",
  "env": {
    "MAX_THINKING_TOKENS": "10000",
    "CLAUDE_AUTOCOMPACT_PCT_OVERRIDE": "50",
    "CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL": "haiku"
  }
}

Also from B:

• Create a .claudeignore file
• Keep CLAUDE.md under 60 lines
• Install the read-once hook (below)
• /clear and /compact aggressively
• Install monitoring tools (below)
• Save explanations locally: claude "explain the database schema" > docs/schema-explanation.md

Read-once hook:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Bande-a-Bonnot/Boucle-framework/main/tools/read-once/install.sh | bash

Monitoring tools:

• npx ccusage@latest — token usage from local logs, daily/session/5hr window reports
• ccburn --compact — visual burn-up charts, shows if you’ll hit 100% before reset. Can feed ccburn –json to Claude so it self-regulates
• Claude-Code-Usage-Monitor — real-time terminal dashboard with burn rate and predictive warnings
• ccstatusline / claude-powerline — token usage in your status bar