ridelink0

Usage Mode — Development skill for Claude Code

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Show or set the budget mode - how hard the plugin leans, and what it costs to say it.

How to install Usage Mode

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/ridelink0-claude-code-usage-limits-usage-mode/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/ridelink0-claude-code-usage-limits-usage-mode && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ridelink0/claude-code-usage-limits/HEAD/commands/usage-mode.md -o ~/.claude/skills/ridelink0-claude-code-usage-limits-usage-mode/SKILL.md

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

What Usage Mode does

description: Show or set the budget mode - how hard the plugin leans, and what it costs to say it

Run `node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/usage-limits/scripts/mode.js" $ARGUMENTS` and report the answer back. Then stop; do not start other work as part of this command.

If the user just wants it gone: `off` injects nothing at all, `off --guard 95` stays silent until 95 per cent. Say which you ran.

The plugin is not free. It puts a line into your context before every prompt, refreshes rea

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