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Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why

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Why This Matters

This article introduces Tare, a tool that helps Claude users understand their token usage by analyzing logs and answering natural language questions about their quotas. It simplifies monitoring and managing API costs, making it easier for users and organizations to optimize their AI usage. This development is significant for the tech industry as it promotes transparency and efficiency in AI resource management, ultimately benefiting consumers by reducing unexpected costs.

Key Takeaways

tare

Ask Claude Code where your usage went.

You hit a usage limit and don't know why. Your quota drains faster than it used to. You suspect something is eating tokens in the background. The records that answer all of this are already on your computer — Claude Code keeps a log of every request it makes. tare teaches Claude Code to read its own logs, so you can just ask.

No dashboards, no commands to learn. Install once, then ask in plain English.

Tare: the weight of the container, subtracted to find what's inside. Most of what a session costs is the container — context re-sent again and again — and that's exactly what these tools subtract.

Install

One command, in any terminal:

npx skills add kelviq/tare -g -y --copy --agent claude-code

That's it. Nothing else to set up — no accounts, no packages, no configuration. Start a new Claude Code session and it's live — type / and check that tare appears. If it doesn't, see the troubleshooting note — on machines where Claude Code has never installed a skill before, the installer can miss it. (Other ways to install — by hand, for a whole team, or as a Claude Code plugin — are in INSTALL.md.)

Then just ask

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