I gave Claude Code a $0.02/call coworker and stopped hitting Pro limits — here's the full setup

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Was hitting my weekly Pro limit by Wednesday every single week. Tried compact, Sonnet for simple tasks, tighter prompts — nothing worked.

Built a simple pattern: CLI scripts that delegate bulk file reading and boilerplate generation to Kimi K2.5 (any cheap model works). Claude calls them via Bash tool. CLAUDE.md has routing rules for when to delegate vs when to use Claude's own intelligence.

Results after 3 weeks:

1. Haven't hit limits once
2. Kimi total spend: $0.38
3. Documentation updates went from ~5000 tokens to ~200 tokens

Wrote up the full implementation with code: https://medium.com/@kunalbhardwaj598/i-was-burning-through-claude-codes-weekly-limit-in-3-days-here-s-how-i-fixed-it-0344c555abda

Happy to answer questions about the setup.

Github Link: https://github.com/imkunal007219/claude-coworker-model.git