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Burnrate — AI skill for Claude Code

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⚡ Terminal HUD, hard budget breakers & prompt-cache leak alerts for AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex).

How to install Burnrate

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open ronitgupta138/burnrate and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Burnrate does

⚡ Terminal HUD, hard budget breakers & prompt-cache leak alerts for AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex).

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README

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**Terminal HUD, Hard Spend Caps & Cache Guard for Coding Agents**

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**Never wake up to an unexpected $40 Claude Code or Cursor bill again.** A lightweight, zero-overhead reverse proxy and CLI HUD that gives developers absolute cost control and prompt-cache leak alerts over autonomous AI sessions.


🎯 The Problem: Why Developers Fear Agent Bills

Software engineers adopting autonomous terminal coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode, Aider) frequently suffer from **bill anx