Stop Before You Hit the 5-Hour Block Cap: A Token Sentinel
Developed a mechanism to prevent exceeding token budgets in 5-hour blocks.
In my previous post, I discussed automating plugin cleanup. This time, I present a mechanism that prevents you from exceeding your token budget upfront. Claude Code's 5-hour blocks have an output-token ceiling, and exceeding it results in rate limiting until the next block begins. This issue becomes more complicated when multiple automated tasks run simultaneously, making it difficult to track consumption. To address this, I created the token-budget-advisor.sh script.