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Claude Burst — Development skill for Claude Code

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Local gateway for Claude Code that arbitrages Anthropic's subscription vs. metered pricing (and a metered API-key mode), with Bedrock overflow.

How to install Claude Burst

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open andrewbakercloudscale/claude-burst and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Claude Burst does

Local gateway for Claude Code that arbitrages Anthropic's subscription vs. metered pricing (and a metered API-key mode), with Bedrock overflow.

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Claude Code API — OpenAI-compatible API gateway for Claude Code CLI 300 ★

README

Claude Burst

**Claude Max as included capacity. A metered secondary as paid overflow.**

Claude Burst is a Mac-only local gateway for Claude Code. It keeps your normal Claude Pro/Max subscription login as the primary credential, observes Anthropic's authoritative subscription rate-limit headers, and only switches inference to a configured secondary when Anthropic says the subscription allowance is actually exhausted. The secondary is a pluggable slot with three equally supported choices — **Amazon Bedrock**, **OpenRouter**, and **Together AI** (or any other OpenAI-compatible chat-completions endpoint; see [OpenAI-compatible secondary](#openai-compatible-secondary-together-ai-openrouter-or-any-endpoint) below) — plus a direct Anthropic API key if you would rather stay on Anthropic's own billing. When the reset timestamp arrives, it automatically returns to the subscription.

This is an experimental MVP. Test it on a non-critical development account before any broader rollout.

**No Claude subscription?** Claude Burst also supports a direct, metered Anthropic API key as the primary route instead of subscription passthrough (see [No-subscription setup](#no-subscription-setup-metered-api-key-primary) below). In that mode there's no included allowance to burst from, so failover to the secondary is triggered by sustained failures instead of subscription-exhaustion headers — both routes are metered, so a single transient error doesn't flip traffic to a second paid provider.

Supported providers

Primary and secondary are independent, pluggable slots (`internal/router/provider.go`) — nothing here is tied to one vendor:

Slot	Options
Primary	`oauth-passthrough` — your existing Claude Pro/Max subscription login (the default, and the setup this whole README describes first) · `anthropic-api-key` — a direct, metered Anthropic API key, for accounts with no subscription
Secondary	`bedrock` — Amazon Bedrock · `openai-compatible` — OpenRo