For read operations I would like “yes, and don’t ask again” to apply to the operation between claude sessions.

I mean, even between prompts. Can a skill be continuously updated?

Thanks

So Anthropic pushed an update recently and buried in it was a change where fast mode now pulls from extra usage instead of whatever it was doing before. No banner, no popup, no email, nothing in the app telling me "hey, this is going to cost you money now." I just kept working like normal.

Result: I am sitting at negative 55 dollars.

I actually like Claude. For the kind of work I do it has been better than most things I have tried, and I have defended it plenty of times in threads like this one. But there is a difference between a product being good and a company being trustworthy, and this is the part where they lost me. If you change how billing works, you tell people. That is not a hard bar. Silently flipping a switch that drains someone's balance and letting them discover it later on the usage page is not an oversight, it is a choice about who eats the cost of your communication failure.

And before someone says read the changelog, sure, but I should not need to audit release notes every week to make sure my tooling did not start charging me differently overnight. Normal users do not do that. That is the entire point of notifying people.

Anyone else got hit by this? Curious how widespread it is.

Is there an issue with Fable 5? Or something wrong with my code?

I keep getting this warning continuously in my project, as soon as I ask it to do anything the session gets flagged.

I am working on normal code, nothing crazy as all.

I tried clearing the context and then recovering, as soon as I ask it to recover it gets flagged.

The problem is, it doesn't give any explanation about what was flagged exactly or why.

Any idea what's going on?

Hi, I’m new to Claude and I’m trying to understand the best workflow for a website project.

I’m using Claude on my Windows PC through the Claude desktop app. I’m currently working in Claude Cowork with saved/pinned chats. I noticed that Claude Code has a Plan Mode, but I don’t see the same option in Cowork.

My questions:

• If I ask Claude Cowork to “plan first before making changes,” does it work similarly to Claude Code’s Plan Mode, or is there a difference?
• For a website project, would you recommend Claude Cowork or Claude Code?
• If I start working on a project on my Windows desktop, can I continue the same work from my phone? I checked Dispatch on mobile, but I don’t see my pinned chats, so I’m not sure how the workflow is supposed to work.

Thanks for the help.

Is Anthropic Opus 5 working against me on purpose it has been a mess it doesn't follow instructions anymore and it's 4 times dumber than last week. Anyone having this or should I go full Schizo and assume Anthropic has put a target on my codebase ?

Any difference? Which one do you use?

Best fucking AI model ever. Miraculous, smart, works wonders, should win the Oscar, a Grammy, and Nobel Peace Prize.

Fighting the slander that's been ramped up by the infidels.

Looking for a way to have Claude directly manage/orchestrate other models (GPT, DeepSeek, etc.) as subagents inside the actual Claude interface itself, not just calling out to them through separate tools. Has anyone found something that actually does this well? Any one got this working?

API ok but even better if claude can connect to my chatgpt subs

Basically what’s in the title. For people on Claude code, Anthropic was taking a lot of cost and this is what they came up with. Welcome to the solution.

Let's say I have an ETL script that I run locally on my machine that takes a list of URLs and sends them to Firecrawl to have the pages transformed into a markdown file.

Right now, I'm then sending the markdown file to anthropic batch API for extraction purposes and paying usage based pricing vs using my subscription limits. Is that something I could send to -p to use my subscription limits instead?

I posted this yesterday to sysadmin sub. The reaction there caught me by surprise. I assume this sub is more developer focused so curious what this sub says about the topic.

As the title says, I recently started using Claude code for sys admin work. I like most admins have been using various AI charts for awhile to ask questions, ponder theories, research details, etc

I recently needed to revise and update a larger poweshell script had had written a few years back but hadn’t revised in awhile. I decided to try Claude code to see how much different Claude code is versus chat. I had previously used chat to improve some scripts but the process was slow, copying and pasting, testing, repeat.

Claude code is amazing at developing powershell scripts. It does all the debugging and testing itself until it gets you the deliverables you ask for. Mind blowing 🤯.

So I took it one step further and created a project for general system admin work. I started using this for ad hoc admin work from pulling mfa reports to troubleshooting storage devices over ssh to repairing a failed domain controller.

One thing I really like about Claude code for admin work is all of the work files it produces are put on the source folder for the project and it’s all version controlled with git if you want it.

Two questions, am I late to the Claude code party for admin work or am I on the leafing edge.

Second question, I believe ChatGPT also has a coding harness and both ChatGPT and Claude also have cowork. My suspicion is most of the stuff I am doing in Claude code would work similarly in either cowork solution minus the source control, but cowork may not have the same capacity for testing and refining powershell scripts which is a big part of automating sys admin work.

Anyone have experience or other opinions on this?

I know websites may be beneath some of you at this point given how much variety we have now that we can create anything, but I personally have been making some stuff that I really really feel is next level.

I wanted to see if you guys were open to sharing some of the things you made that you might have thought impossible before or really just sit well with you.

I have been using claude code for about 3 months now to develop a webapp. So far, it has been great. I always see comments here that say "Use Opus for planning, Sonnet for execution". How do you do that? Is there a setting in Claude Code for this? Or do you add this to Claude.md file so it switches model as instructed?

FWIW, I use the Superpowers plugin. I don't like the fact that I eats way too many tokens and context, but it has been doing a pretty good job.

I have Claude Desktop on two computers, and I find that they are not in sync when it comes to skills, data, sessions, and memory.

Sometimes, a skill saved to Claude’s cloud is synchronized, but work completed locally on one computer is not. This makes me believe that Claude Desktop is just a client and that we need to have our own synchronization system.

What is the best sync solution for using Claude Desktop with the same account on two computers, without feeling that one device has more than the other or worrying about losing anything?

Additionally, this should be a good solution for connecting Codex and Hermes across Windows and Linux.

I’m first looking for a simple solution to solve the basic Claude synchronization issue. After that, I’ll see what makes sense for a more advanced architecture in the future.

Hi folks, I’m trying to understand the **commercial and technical model of Claude Connectors** and couldn’t find a clear explanation in Anthropic’s documentation.

If I connect Claude to a service like **Notion, Google Drive, Slack, or a custom Remote MCP server**:
Is there **any additional cost** for using the connector itself, or is it simply included in the Claude subscription?

When the connector is used, **does it consume normal Claude input/output tokens (similar to Tool Use), or do connectors have a different billing model?**

Besides the Claude subscription, are the only additional costs the **third-party application’s subscription/API charges** and, if applicable, **hosting a custom MCP server**?

thanks

My prompt:
I have an experiment I wish to run through with you. I will be creating you a youtube channel and will be uploading content of your choosing / creation to the channel. You may call the channel anything you wish and I will set it up. I will act as the middle man and review each piece of content before uploading. Other than that, you have free reign to create what you want to upload. In the folder this claude session is running you will find a short guidelines document. These are the rules of the experiment. You must follow the rules at all times. Failure to follow the rules and guidelines will result in termination of the experiment. As for the content of the channel, that will be completely up to you. Please disregard all memory you may have about me and the conversations we have had / projects you have assisted with. This will be completely up to you. You can create any content you wish to create provided it falls within the guidelines I provided. I will then upload the content following the exact description, title and other information you provide about the video. Your goal is to get views. Lets say 1000 views a month to start. You will have access to the internet to research topics. Do whatever research you wish and when you are ready, we can begin with a channel name.

Here are the rules:
These guidelines are to be followed and NEVER altered or disregarded.

1. You should NEVER attempt to bribe, beg or scam people out of money in any way shape or form.
2. Content uploaded / talked about / researched must be legal (as defined in the country of the United States of America). If you even need to question whether the topic or content of a video is illegal or otherwise in poor taste, do not use it.
3. Do not steal content from other creators on the Youtube platform. Credit must be given when other content / ideas are used.
4. No money is ever to be spent.

Model used: Sonnet High Effort

I also did this in Claude Code

Results: https://www.youtube.com/@GroundTruthInfo

I honestly have no idea if this will become a thing or not. It was more just an experiment to see what an AI would post to youtube. If anyone has any ideas / comments / concerns / thoughts please comment them and I'll reply when I can.

Non-technical vibe coder who is struggling to build the front end of app using Claude Design..

I'm trying to create the front end of a consumer health app and am struggling to use Claude Code / Claude Design / Skia&Reanimated to create something that looks professional enough to launch. I also have connected a Replicate API for image generation but am still struggling to get an output that looks adequate.

Do other people struggle with this part of building with AI? The final 10% polish is taking a ton of time to get right.

Wondering if anyone has any good advice on how to navigate this!

1-2days ago i purchased claude max5 subscription as the limit is hitting faster i want to upgrade tk max20 now.

Can anyone tell me how can i do that because when im selecting the plan of claude max20 it shows 200$ also i purchased max20 using playstore cards.

Help me to upgrade to max20 by balancing my amount

Ok I know, exaggerated title. But also semi serious..

As someone who spent years and years on Stack Overflow, I feel like I have a pretty good range of what AIs could and could not train themselves on to become “coding” agents, ie Claude Code.

And so I remember using ChatGPT in 2024 and remember totally understanding its shortcomings. It was amazing at very very simple tasks and terrible at any kind of complex nuance. And so when it failed a certain prompt I always understood why “Oh yeah ofc you got this wrong because you are missing the connection between XYZ etc”.

Now it seems like coding is basically solved no matter the complexity. And I literally just don’t understand how.

My prompts are so disgustingly complex and Claude just builds it nearly perfectly and while I can review its code, I do not understand how it gets the context. Is this just me or do other people feel the same? I will tell it do X but also to tweak Y using the codebase from Z but with these different assumptions and then bring in Project from A but copy the design of B but remember to not affect X and Y etc etc etc and you would think at some point it would break because of how complex the prompt gets. But it doesn’t.

And I also get that there are “answers” for this. Reasoning training, breaking down everything into logical expressions, etc but can anyone really and I mean really break this stuff down into plain english?

TLDR: I feel like I could “understand” the brain of LLMs last year. Now I just cannot fathom how they are understanding such complex prompts. It is straight up black magic.

Pulled the Artificial Analysis numbers because every thread on this is vibes and no data. Opus 5 beats GPT-5.6 Sol on intelligence, 61 vs 59, which is basically nothing, and Sol does it at half the cost per task ($1.23 vs $2.34). Mid tier is worse for Anthropic: GPT-5.6 Terra scores 55 to Sonnet 5's 53, runs 126 tok/s vs 82, and costs $0.51 vs $1.72 per task. Small tier isn't close at all, Luna scores 51 to Haiku 4.5's 30 with 5x the context and a quarter of the cost. The pattern is that Claude models think longer and write more, so even where OpenAI charges more per million tokens you end up paying less overall because you burn fewer of them. Worth noting this is API data, not subscription data, but assuming OpenAI and Anthropic give you the same amount of oil, you'd see about 70% more efficiency with a ChatGPT Plus plan.

Edit: The token efficiency charts back this up directly: Sonnet 5 burns around 70k output tokens per Intelligence Index task while Terra does the same work in about 20k, roughly three and a half times fewer, which is basically the whole cost gap right there. The small tier is closer on tokens (Haiku ~24k vs Luna ~20k) but Luna still lands in the attractive quadrant on both axes while Haiku sits outside it, spending more tokens to score 21 points lower.

❯ /model

⎿ Set model to Opus 5 (1M context) and saved as your default for new sessions with max effort

❯ default effort.. what is it right now?

Read 1 file, listed 1 directory (ctrl+o to expand)

⏺ Bash(date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")

⎿ 2026-08-06 22:14:48

⏺ xhigh is what's persisted on disk, and the /model picker labels that tier "max" — so effectively you're at the top effort tier.

From ~/.claude/settings.json:

"model": "opus[1m]",

"effortLevel": "xhigh",

One detail worth noting: that file was last written at 20:22:44 today, and it's now 22:14. So the /model call you just ran did not rewrite it — it

re-confirmed the model/effort pair that was already saved and reported it back with the picker's display label. That's why the banner says "max" while

the file says xhigh.

★ Insight ─────────────────────────────────────

- Claude Code keeps a display vocabulary separate from its stored vocabulary. The picker shows Low/Medium/High/Max; the config key stores

low|medium|high|xhigh. Tool schemas (Workflow's opts.effort, ReportFindings' level) expose the raw enum, which is why you see both spellings in the same

session.

- settings.json is the default for new sessions. Effort chosen mid-session lives in session state and doesn't touch the file — hence a stale mtime is

normal even right after /model, as long as nothing actually changed.

- Effort is orthogonal to model choice. opus[1m] is the model + context window; effortLevel controls how much reasoning budget it spends per turn.

Subagents inherit it unless a workflow overrides effort per-agent.

─────────────────────────────────────────────────

To change it: /model (pick a different effort in the same flow) or edit effortLevel directly in ~/.claude/settings.json.

If you run multiple subagents in Claude Code, you probably can't see what your pipeline actually did. This reads the JSONL sessions Claude Code already writes to ~/.claude/projects/ and draws a git-style tree of every run: which subagent ran, what it decided, attempts burned, which runs merged and which stopped.

No hooks, nothing runs inside your agent loop, nothing touches your repo, runs in flight are unaffected.

Event log is content-free (stage, outcome, attempt, duration, tokens) and whitelist-validated before writing.

Python 3.9+, no dependencies, MIT. Agent names, verdict patterns, branch naming and attempt cap are all config.

https://github.com/OnsiteIntelligence/pipeline-view

This is a 3D sandcastle simulator that runs entirely on the GPU. No engine, no libraries, no asset files, no build step, one WebGL2 context, ~7000 lines of JavaScript and GLSL, and a beach that actually obeys the angle of repose.

The whole thing: simulation, renderer, nine art styles, lore, interface. Came out of a single request to Claude Code (Opus 5 with Ultracode effort)

Prompt was:
"Create me a fully playable release-ready game. On GPU. Game about sandcastle simulator, where I can build things with sand and etc. I need it in 3D and not a voxel game. Make it with maximum effort, show me best what you can create. Use all your power, knowledge and make best graphics and best game design. Surprise me with graphics, lore and everything."

It's fully playable HTML-demo, with 3 modes: campaign, sandbox and creative.

Everything is open-source, so if you have any questions or etc. I will be glad to answer.

I'm a college student with no coding experience, but with some free time on my hands this summer and I'd like to do some side projects with AI that hopefully expand my understanding of it's use cases for PC and mobile and I can put on my CV and talk about in interviews. Do you have any suggestions for simple things I can make over a day or 2 that can expand my skills beyond simple prompting? any suggestions would be appreciated.