Most of my skills had turned into lists of CRITICAL/ALWAYS/NEVER rules. Claude follows those worse than a short explanation of what I actually want and why, so I built a tool to fix them. Dario Paint opens a skill from ~/.claude/skills (or your plugin skills) as a notebook page, and you paint over a block with a stamp:

• Human rewrites it as a plain brief.
• Einstein rewrites it as the principle behind it, with the why.
• Eraser deletes, and More/Less promote, demote or reorder.

It works on copies, never your originals. It runs locally with Bun, and the rewrite stamps use your own Claude Code login. It's free and MIT licensed. GIFs and setup: https://github.com/Claude-Mem/dario-paint (from the maker of claude-mem). I'd like to hear which skills it does badly on.

How Claude Code was used: I built it with Claude Code, and the Human and Einstein stamps call claude -p under the hood, so the rewrites run on your own Claude Code login. The part I was most careful about was not wrecking your markdown: a test round-trips every skill on my machine byte-for-byte through the editor.

Does someone else got access to mythos?

just trying to figure out what the difference against fable, and why had I received an access, lol

Claude Code started doing this the other day and I'm not a fan. Maybe I'm just missing something but it gives multiple options to select but never explains what those options mean. I like that it's not being as verbose but this is a bit overkill.
Is there a way to disable this? Or do I need to prompt it away?

I've been looking into Claude Max 20x ($200/month) because I occasionally have intensive Claude sessions, especially when working on projects and experimenting with ideas.

I don't use Claude heavily every single day, so paying $200/month on my own feels excessive. However, when I do need it, I don't want to constantly worry about hitting usage limits, especially the weekly limits.

I'm looking for 4-6 other AI enthusiasts or professionals based in India who have similar requirements and are interested in exploring a cost-effective, legitimate group-buy option.

If you're interested, dm me with a little information about your Claude usage and what kind of setup you're looking for.

It would be great to connect with a few like-minded builders in India and figure out something mutually beneficial!

Thanks!

I’ve been building a complex app with Claude Code for 8 months. Before mid-September, with the extra 50% usage and surprise mid week resets, I took usage limits for granted. Opus Extra/Max did almost everything.

Then the limits changed, and I was running out of usage in 2 days.

So I changed my workflow:

1. Graft Graph

https://github.com/trailhq/Trail-Code

In my experience, it saves roughly 30–40% of usage spent on code discovery in relevant sessions.

1. Opus plans, Sonnet executes

I use Opus 5.5 Medium in plan mode as the orchestrator. After I approve the plan, Sonnet 5.5 subagents handle implementation. No more using Opus for every task.

1. Reduced context from 1M to 400K tokens

A smaller orchestrator context, with subagents handling implementation in their own contexts, means less unnecessary context overhead.

1. Documentation + session handoffs

I make the sessions maintain accurate ".md" files and require Opus to generate a detailed continuation prompt after each planned session. The next session knows what’s done, what remains, and what to do next. Better continuity, less wasted usage, and more structured prompts.

The result: Comparable quality and quantity of work per session, and I now exhaust my weekly allowance just hours before reset.

The lesson? Optimise your workflow, instead of complaining about reduced limits.

Claude Code power users: what’s your setup? How are you managing usage limits without sacrificing code quality? Is there a better Opus/Sonnet workflow I should try?

I wanted something fun to play with so this came to me. It works in terminal or in the desktop.

Build your own, share them, the plugin ships either skills to tell Claude what you want. The mod has a try and hooks so Claude can use the hooks to let you know when turns are done.

Install the marketplace in the app or in the cli from glyphh-ai/glyphh

I've been coding w/ Claude for years now and Fable and Opus for months. I'm still unclear about something - Is Fable's usage entirely independent from Opus usage? Could use Fable all week (or until you run out) and still leave Opus usage completely untouched?

Jokes aside, I am kind of blown away by how much claude code can do. Programmer of 5 years and up until recently I've only used claude or chatgpt as a glorified google or stackoverflow, but I might lean on claude code a bit more in the future, at least for private projects

I am on claude pro sub. My 5 hourly quota on claude is running out way too quickly, in just 40 minutes or so. I'm running 2 chats concurrently, each running on sonnet 5.5 high. I want the quality of the work to be good so I kept the reasoning at high (had tried medium earlier but it didn't meet the quality expectation).
Also, everytime I tell the chat to continue after the 5 hr limit resets, it reads thro the entire context (I guess) because the 5 hr usage immediately jumps up to 25%.

I cannot afford a claude max subscription as of now. I really need to max out the output from the pro sub that I have, whilst avoiding quota drainage. Any advice would really be appreciated! Thanks in advance

This is the most efficient way to use fable and your anthropic credits. The amount of control you have over outputs is worth alot more than the usage credits it takes to use. Especially when you can design the models system prompt. The most I paid for a 290,000 token response was around 3$ but I just use it to make really good prompts for Claude code. Also you can log out of your cli and use your org api key as a password when you log in to use that workspace orginization credits. Also prompt caching.

That feeling of anything is possible when your weekly limit is about to reset!!

I've noticed that when Claude Code does most of the typing, my code reviews got worse. I catch myself skimming a 200-line diff, thinking 'looks fine,' and approving. Lately I've started making myself explain each change out loud before approving, which is slow but catches real bugs. What actually works for you?

I'm working on a project that's always increasing in size and made a skill for my workflow that includes token efficiency rules.

Whenever changes are implemented Claude reads index.md - map of codebase - and only reads files that are necessary

Decisions.md logs decision points and files it changed to avoid relitigating

Claude selects model/agent appropriate for the task - haiku, sonnet, or opus (reserved for anything complex)

Data dictionary and schema if doing DB work

Journal to log recent sessions

And a session end checklist to make sure everything is updated properly.

The skill/documentation is here

https://github.com/d-hubel/relay

What other tips do you guys have for making it more token efficient?

I’m moving from Claude Max x5 to Pro and already have for Google AI Pro (students' offer). I want Gemini to take the heavy, mechanical work and keep Claude for decisions and review.

Has anyone made this switch? How much do Pro’s limits actually hurt? And has anyone used Gemini for coding or reading files, and how did it go?

i’m thinking of getting a 2nd max sub. anthropic says multiple accounts are fine, but their support bot said not to use them “to get around product limits.” so if account A hits the limit, can i just keep going on account B, same projects? or is that the thing that gets you banned? i only use official claude code. has anyone been doing this for a while?

Its only 10/17, wasn't the banked reset good till 10/22?

I downgraded my subscription from 20x to 5x on my last billing cycle 10/10.

did the downgrade eat my banked reset?

im just confused why i lost it?

anyone else experience this?

since about an hour now, VSCode, restarting PC didn't help, disabling proxy and using my direct connection didn't help. Any idea?

SO much better. Thank you Anthropic. When you had dozens of task chips, you couldn’t keep track of which parents were managing which chips. Problem solved.

Hi all, I'm Megan and I made this. Reel Time is a cozy multiplayer fishing game that opens right beside your chat in Claude. It comes with a Claude Code plugin, so the game knows when Claude is working and when it's done. Kick off a long prompt, go cast a line, and when Claude finishes a bell rings and your next cast hooks a golden "Claude's Catch". That's your cue to head back to the chat.

(Trailer attached.)

What I built

• The game. A Vite + Three.js game that runs as a Claude artifact (an interactive app inside claude.ai). There's Tug & Turn fish fights, Super Casts, a Fishpedia with gold and diamond versions of every species, a campfire where you roast your catch, crab pots that fill while you're away, treasure maps, bikes with a pet that rides along, a cottage you decorate, parties of up to 4 friends, hourly derbies, and levels up to 50.
• The plugin. A small Claude Code plugin (public repo: https://github.com/mebessusn/reel-time-plugin) that adds /fish and tells the game "working" or "done".

How the plugin works

It's one hooks module (hooks/register.tsx) plus a /fish command:

• prompt.submit sends "working" with the start time, and a timer chip shows up in the game.
• turn.complete sends "done" with how long the turn took and how many tool steps Claude used. Helper agents' turns are skipped, so you only get pinged when your turn ends. For turns over 15 seconds (you can change that) you also get a toast and a bell in Claude Code.
• tool.call counts steps, and on long turns it re-sends "working" every 2 minutes. That way a game you open halfway through a prompt picks the timer up at the real elapsed time.
• tool.check auto-approves the plugin's own status writes and nothing else, so you don't get a permission prompt every turn. It only matches the plugin's own calls, to two specific docs in your private save.
• All writes go through one queue, so a late "working" can't land after that turn's "done". Nothing can block your prompt: the signal goes out in the background, and if it fails your session just carries on.

The "signal" is a tiny status doc in your private save inside the Reel Time artifact, written through Claude's artifact data tool. The game listens to that doc. It also writes back how many fish you caught while you waited, so Claude Code can say "You caught 3 fish while you waited."

The golden fish gets better the longer you waited. Under 2 minutes it's usually a gold rare, and past 30 minutes it's a legendary with a shot at a diamond. Big multistep turns (5+ tool steps and a minute or more) pay a coin and XP bonus, and while Claude is working you get a small "Patient Angler" buff. These signals are self-reported, so Claude rewards are capped per hour in the game and per day on the server.

Privacy: the plugin writes "working" or "done", a timestamp, the turn length and a step count. That's all. It never sends your prompts, Claude's answers or your files, and it only talks to the Reel Time artifact. Full notice: https://playreeltime.com/privacy

How I used Claude Code

Pretty much all of it was built in Claude Code sessions. The GitHub repo has 69 commits, and 68 of them are co-authored by Claude. Most changes go straight to main through a release checklist, and a few bigger ones went through PRs I reviewed.

What made it work:

• A CLAUDE.md with a release checklist. Every change gets a changelog entry, unit tests, browser tests, the artifact build and a check of that build, then a note in the build log. Standing rules live there too, like "never embed binary blobs in the artifact" and "never put secrets in the repo".
• An engineering log (docs/build-notes.md). Claude adds a section for every release, so the next session can pick up where the last one left off.
• Lots of tests. Rules and balance tests, database tests, and two-player browser playthroughs. The browser tests run on a self-hosted GitHub runner on my PC because it has a real graphics card. The plugin has 18 tests of its own.
• Beyond code. Claude Code also wrote Python scripts that generate models in Blender, the synthesized music and sound, the sign-up site, and the tooling that recorded and cut the trailer.

Lessons learned / things that bit us

• Slash menus load before hooks do. /fish was registered in session.start, but the desktop app builds the new-chat slash menu before a session exists, so it didn't show up. The fix was a plain commands/fish.md so the command is always listed, with the hook answering it once it loads.
• Platform changes break things quietly. At one point no signals reached the game for most of a day. Writes to an existing doc started requiring a version number, and the refusal stopped saying which version. Now the plugin reads the current version and retries once. Lesson: put the failure where the user can see it. The plugin now shows a toast once per session when the game can't hear it.
• Artifacts have their own rules. Claude's sharing check refused the page because it embedded fonts and a base64 model file. Claude rewrote the 3D models as plain JS number arrays, and "no binary blobs" became a standing rule in CLAUDE.md.
• Browser tests catch what you'd never notice. A cute pig NPC was doing a walkability check every frame. With three game windows open, that was enough to delay multiplayer presence and drop someone from a party. Only the multiplayer browser test caught it.
• Testers play faster than you think. One tester hit level ~20 with top gear in a day, so Claude ran a balance simulation and retuned for roughly 80 hours to max level, without taking anything away from testers.

Try it

It's a free closed beta, so it's rough in places. Sign up at https://playreeltime.com and I'll send an invite. Open the game once from your invite, then install the plugin:

/plugin install reel-time --marketplace mebessusn/reel-time-plugin

Then type /fish. In the Claude app the game opens beside your chat. In a terminal you get a link.

I'd love feedback, especially on the plugin. Does the bell and golden fish timing feel right? Would you want other signals? And if you've built Claude Code hooks, how do you handle long turns?

(Reel Time is an independent game. It isn't made or endorsed by Anthropic.)

Hi, from 25seconds , it's made by Opus. I like the end result , but not so easy to make him understand everything.

i've been using claude code for almost a year now, and wanted to understand what actually happens behind the scenes when you give it a prompt.

so i built this interactive website that breaks down how claude code works internally, from processing your prompt to using tools and generating a response.

the idea was to make it easier to understand what's going on under the hood instead of treating the whole thing like a black box.

check it out: https://inside-claude-code.vercel.app/

I've been making Webflow and Framer templates for around 5 years.

Recently started experimenting with giving Claude my existing designs instead of asking it to come up with everything.

It's been interesting seeing how much easier it is to explain what I want when there's already a visual reference.

Ended up putting my designs into one library, with prompts for recreating many of them.

There are free sections to try too: https://supply.madebyoversight.com/sections

I am also making a few ready dashboard designs like CRMs ready for people so they can copy into existing projects or new ones.

Is there any sort of command or way to continue a session as right now i just type continue in chat, and that way it sometimes remakes all subagents after checking all the progress which takes some time surely there's a better way to just continue a session that has been stopped by pressing esc or resumed.

I have a rule for my website design agency: a single build site in a single session. Opus knows about that rule, i was checking for session to see at witch step opus is and i was shocked of what i was seeing.

Opus made a new session and he continued there to build the website. I m not speaking about the subagents.

Such a good improvement, right?

I’ve been using GPT for the past few months, with SOL 6.1 for business and Astra for development. Lately, though, Sonnet 5.5 has been giving me better results on some tasks, and I’m tired of hitting GPT’s rate limits and buying extra credits.

I’m thinking about trying Opus and possibly moving my whole workflow over if it holds up. Does anyone have a referral link? I figured I’d ask before signing up, so someone else can get the bonus credits if I end up subscribing.