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Usage Guard — AI skill for Claude Code

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Guard a running swarm against the claude.ai session usage limit.

How to install Usage Guard

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/jtims-claude-code-swarm-kit-usage-guard/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/jtims-claude-code-swarm-kit-usage-guard && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jtims/claude-code-swarm-kit/HEAD/commands/usage-guard.md -o ~/.claude/skills/jtims-claude-code-swarm-kit-usage-guard/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Usage Guard does

description: 'Guard a running swarm against the claude.ai session usage limit. Reads the usage page in the owner''s Chrome on a fixed tick, screenshots every Nth tick, logs to the project, and at the threshold (default 95 percent) runs the capture-then-stop pause. Args: [threshold] [interval_s]' argument-hint: '[threshold=95] [interval_s=150]'

/usage-guard $ARGUMENTS

Owner rulings this encodes (2026-09-04, verbatim): "when I say 'pause', you immediately capture all context via script

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