Blog

• Stop Claude Code before it hits your usage limit

  A warning cannot be seen by an agent. A PreToolUse hook can refuse the tool call outright. A working script in fifteen lines, the three rules that keep it from wedging your editor, and why a gateway cannot do this job on a subscription.

• Claude Code's weekly limit, and why it catches people out

  The cap that costs you a week, and most of what is written about it is wrong. What Anthropic actually documents, where your real reset time lives, and the five habits behind almost every "burned it by Tuesday" story.

• When does the 5-hour window actually reset?

  Why your tracker's countdown disagrees with /status, why an auto-calibrated gauge that "measured" your limit at a wall-hit is almost certainly too low, and which number to believe.

• Is Claude down, or am I out of tokens?

  Two very different problems that look identical from the terminal. Three checks that separate them in under a minute, and why it costs real budget when your agent cannot tell the difference.

• MeterTab vs ccusage

  The reference CLI in this category, compared honestly against my app - including the rows where ccusage wins, which is more of them than you might expect from a page on my own site.

• MeterTab vs Usage for Claude

  The closest App Store rival. OS requirements, one purchase versus a split of unlocks and monthly tiers, Claude-only versus nine providers, and what your agents can do with the number.