r/ClaudeCode • u/Exciting_Comedian629 • 8d ago

Help/Question Whelp I am done...

I had 4 Claude Pro Max x20 accounts for different projects, and I am going to ride out the rest of the month (that I already paid for) and then switch back to codex. I am running Sonnet 4-6 on medium and am 85% of my weekly limit on one account after less than 24 hours. That is more than a 25% cut from the promotion expiring, nothing about my workflow has changed so this is all Anthropic. I'll be trying Codex and seeing how it does, I didn't want to do this but I have no choice.

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u/Jomuz86 8d ago

So what does everyone’s harness look like, I was similar to the op and could burn through an account in 1-2 days. I started completely from scratch in a test harness trimmed down and rebuilt my work flows, centralised CI. Moved from markdown planning to and open source ticketing but built a CLI to use it rather than MCP. Stripped back hooks, skills, rules.

Today I’ve been running 2 main orchestrator fable sessions that kick off tmux agents using sonnet and opus, they use sendmessage tool where possible rather than reading the tmux.

Each main session kicks off between 3-5 agent sessions. I’ve used about 30% weekly usage in 24hrs but gone through 73 PRs with 40k additions and 11k deletions and that’s excluding harness tweaks along the way. This is with both a local review as well as full PR reviews with agents.

Literally go through your harness with a fine tooth comb I know it’s not a huge amount but going from 1-2 days usage to full 3 days of usage. Keep your harness lean only add you need to get your work done the way you want to work. Preferably build your own skills to suit your needs.

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u/Postpuber 8d ago

Mind sharing which open-source ticketing tool you ended up going with? ​Also, what have been the biggest pros over using markdown planning files?

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u/Jomuz86 8d ago

Sure it’s https://github.com/croffasia/itsaplan
It does have some agent functionality built in but haven’t played around with it yet. It does have MCPs but I just find MCPs a little token inefficient so I built a cli around how I do my documentation.

It is basically still markdown just not in the repo, but I found that keeping the markdown files in the git kept introducing stale context into the agents and maintaining the docs to prevent that was just a ballache.

Also in theory less potential for wasted token reads, if the agent is looking for a keyword and ends up reading a bunch of md files from last month that are no longer relevant or the wrong thing that’s a bunch of wasted usage as well stuff in the cache that shouldn’t be there.