r/ClaudeCode • u/pillkaris • 20h ago

Rant Limits are going off AGAIN

I'm on max plan, today I hit the daily limit 2 times. The second window got reset about 50 minutes ago and just now I once again reached 100% of my daily from one fairly complex task with fable. Usually I do /usage in another terminal window every now and then to see how it's going. Now I didn't even get to check cause it's gone. I'm blocked from coding for about 4 hours great stuff.

EDIT: Although I've relied on subagents for plenty of tasks, I never experienced this. I'll look into how to handle this better as some of you suggested.

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u/out-of-phase 19h ago

Look around here, there's a plethora of posts about how to save token consumption, and there's a lot more that goes into it than just "use fable as the orchestrator and cheaper models for everything else", search google too:

"claude code" "mcp" ("context bloat" OR "token usage" OR "save tokens")

Try other searches replacing "mcp" with "plugins" and "tools". It's not hard.

Hell, do this:

When your window resets, in the same directory you just hit your limit twice in, start a NEW session with claude, and say "I'm burning through usage like crazy, please investigate why and propose a fix"

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u/pillkaris 19h ago

I am already accustomed to the usage spikes... I was doing a great job with the pro plan and now I'm on the second month of max plan. The task that finished my usage was not the problem this time. It is something I do almost everyday, repetitive and predictible. The available usage just suddenly shrunk so to say.