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Claude Warmup — Development skill for Claude Code

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Manipulate Claude Code's 5-hour usage window into resetting when you actually need it.

How to install Claude Warmup

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

What Claude Warmup does

Manipulate Claude Code's 5-hour usage window into resetting when you actually need it.

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README

claude-warmup

Manipulate Claude Code's 5-hour usage window into resetting when you actually need it.

EDIT: You can apply the same concept and achieve the exact same goal in a "native" way by using a Claude Code Web scheduled task: https://claude.ai/code/scheduled. It works flawlessly! The "Why" section below is still very useful for visualizing why would you do this at all.

Why

Claude Code gives you a token budget that resets every 5 hours. The window starts when you send your first message, floored to the clock hour.

So if you start at 8:30 AM and burn through your budget by 11, you're locked out until 1 PM. Two dead hours in the middle of your morning.

The fix is dumb and it works: fire a throwaway message before you start working. A GitHub Actions cron sends "hi" to Haiku at 6:15 AM. The window floors to 6 AM, runs until 11. By the time you've hit the limit, it resets right away. Your next message anchors a fresh window through 4 PM.

Example schedule:

            6am    7     8     9    10    11    12    1pm    2     3     4     5    6pm
             |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |

Before:                  [========== window 1 =========]
                          work ~8:30am-11am  ░░ dead ░░
                                                       [========== window 2 =========]
                                                                work ~1pm-6pm
          cron trigger
               │
               ▼
After:       [========== window 1 =========]
              ░░ idle ░░  work ~8:30am-11am
                                           [========== window 2 =========]
                                                   work ~11am-4pm
                                                                         [== win 3 ==]
                                                                         work ~4pm-6pm