Cut your Claude Code bill
You hit your limit or your bill climbs without knowing where it goes. Two levers: stay on Claude and cut the waste (CodeBurn breaks your usage down by MCP, skill and session, Caveman compresses outputs by ~65% with no precision loss), or swap the brain for a cheap model via OpenRouter when the task allows. You measure, you decide, you pay less.
Why
Stop burning your LLM tokens blind. Tuesday, 4pm. You hit the window limit. You don't know why. You asked 3 simple questions, but Claude has 200k tokens in context. You close the session, frustrated. Tomorrow, you'll burn as much again without understanding where it's going. You're paying for tokens you don't control. This kit opens the black box. Visualize where tokens go (CodeBurn, TUI dashboard). Compress verbose outputs without losing technical precision (Caveman, -65% on responses). Claude Code stays the base, but you stop suffering it financially. You see, you measure, you…
When
For the dev who regularly hits the context limit or sees their Anthropic bill explode: economic optimization phase. ✅ You know it's your kit when You hit the window limit 2-3 times a week without understanding why Your Claude Pro/Max bill climbs faster than your usage feels You feel Claude answers verbose when you want direct factual responses ❌ Not for this kit You're starting on Claude Code →…
Tools included
- Claude Code
- Codeburn
- Ponytail
- Caveman
- Openrouter