I debating quitting one and just keeping the other, maybe on a higher plan.

And I can't say for certain... but I feel like they both know I'm debating.

This week I realized I had a ton of unused credits going to waste in Cursor because I was using Claude so much. So I started just full-on crushing my monthly usage. But I'm not coming close - All sorts of usage boosts for the new Grok, extra usage for composer etc..

Then today I see that in Claude:

Your limits are temporarily boosted. Your weekly Claude Code limit is 50% higher(opens in new tab) through August 19, and your Cowork limit is 100% higher(opens in new tab) through August 5. When each promotion ends, limits return to your plan's standard amounts.

This is on top of the $100 usage credits!

Both systems have me feeling like I need to use it or lose it but I don't write enough code to justify 2 subscriptions!

Cursor already got me to use Agent view for everything 😭

Inspired by this popular post, this is a weekly post for everyone to show what they have been working on that helps you or that you're proud of!

hi everyone 👋 first time posting on this sub. would appreciate any help, TYSMIA!

i've been working on a design system in claude design, and want to give access to my coworker. the only way i've been able to do it is sending them a zip, because the URL i copied doesn't seem to work. wondering if anyone has a better solution to this?

TL;DR: I disabled memory, then wiped every local trace of Claude from my machine. Now memory is stuck off even though the Settings toggle is ON. Reinstalls and fresh VMs don't fix it, and support hasn't replied in 5+ days.

Setup: 20x Max, Cowork on Windows 11, .NET project with 100k+ lines.

I wanted to "rebuild" Claude's memory for efficiency: disabled it, reset, re-enabled. Didn't like the result, then foolishly removed every trace of Claude from the machine — AppData, registry, the VM — everything short of reinstalling Windows.

Since then, every new project (and my old project folder) shows:

"Memory is off in your settings. Any existing memory files are kept but won't be read or written in new sessions. No memory files yet."

Before anyone asks: the memory toggle in Settings is ON. Toggling it off and on changes nothing.

Tried so far: everything the AI assistant suggested, two support tickets (no reply after 5+ days), and file/flag-level debugging on a fresh install.

Closest lead: the GrowthBook flag tengu_session_memory reads false in every local copy (device cache and all per-session configs), and there's no per-project memory toggle stored anywhere locally — so the "off" seems to mirror a server-side flag I can't flip myself.

Has anyone run into this or know how to get it reset? Ironically all I wanted was to save tokens and compact project knowledge. Thank you!

So, since we are all working on loops now, I was thinking sharing my approach to force-stop Claude when it says our all time favorite phrase "you are absolutely right" (or replace it with, "that's on me" or whatever else is your favorite)

Create ".claude/hooks/block-placation.sh:" with the following content:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
    # Stop hook: check the reply, steer when it placates, let it retry, stop when clean or once steered.
    payload=$(cat)
    reply=$(jq -r '.last_assistant_message // ""' <<<"$payload")
    steered=$(jq -r '.stop_hook_active // false' <<<"$payload")

    # check: does the reply open with placation?
    if ! grep -qiE '^[[:space:]>*_-]*(you.?re +(absolutely +|completely +|so +)?right|great question|absolutely[[:punct:]])' <<<"$reply"; then
        exit 0    # clean, so stop and let the turn end
    fi

    # stop arm: if the last turn was already a re-steer and it still opens this way, let it through
    [ "$steered" = "true" ] && exit 0

    # steer: block the stop and hand back a correction, so the model regenerates the reply
    echo "Revise before ending: this reply opens with an affirmation before checking anything. Drop the opening phrase and lead with the substance." >&2
    exit 2

wire it in your hooks in the settings.json

    {
      "hooks": {
        "Stop": [
          { "hooks": [ { "type": "command", "command": ".claude/hooks/block-placation.sh" } ] }
        ]
      }
    }

and that's it.

On a clean turn the grep misses, exit 0, zero cost. On a placating turn the hook blocks the stop, hands back the steer, the model retries. The loop ends one of two ways: the new reply comes back clean, or it opened placating a second time and the stop_hook_active guard lets it through instead of bouncing forever. Claude Code also caps continuations, so even a hook missing its own stop arm cannot loop indefinitely.

EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY!!!

ARAGORN, SON OF ARATHORN!

VERSUS!

MINSC! (AND BOO!)

BEGIN!

[ARAGORN]
Out of the wild — hood up, pipe lit, Andúril at my side,
I'm the Heir of Isildur; you're the guy the hamster guides!
I've carried more names than you've had thoughts: Strider, Estel, Elessar,
You've got one volume setting, one brain cell, and a jar!
I tracked Uruk-hai three days across Rohan without rest,
You lose the plot completely if the rodent leaves your vest!
I summoned up an army from the Paths of the Dead —
Your tactical advisor eats his seeds inside your head!
The hands of the king are the hands of a healer,
Your Wisdom is the dump stat, and buddy, could it be realer:
I guarded four small hobbits through hell to Mount Doom,
Your one job was a witch — she didn't make it to act two!
I waited sixty years, then took my crown before the throng,
So squeak your little orders while your minute lasts, Minsc —
You take counsel from a hamster. I return as the King.
The age of rodent rangers is over. Now begins... my thing.

[MINSC]
HA! Minsc smells evil! Or possibly... brooding? Boo says BOTH!
You are famous for WALKING — they literally named you "Strider," oaf!
Took you six whole movies to escort one piece of bling,
Minsc clears a dungeon before second breakfast — THAT'S a king!
Eighty-seven years dodging destiny AND a wedding date,
Poor Arwen gave up immortality — to WAIT!
You kept your shattered sword in pieces, like a scrapbook of your feelings,
Then you wept upon your Boromir... which, fine, had Boo also reeling —
NO! FOCUS, MINSC! EVIL! Ahem: Evil, meet my sword!
SWORD, MEET EVIL! They have met SO MUCH, it's never bored!
They built a statue of Minsc while Minsc was STILL INSIDE IT —
Your city waits until you're dead; mine could not be quieted!
You bow to no one? Pah! Minsc also kneels for no man's due —
though that is mostly full plate armor. The point stands. Tell him, Boo!
"Squeak."
...Devastating. Utterly. There is no counter-verse to that.

[ARAGORN]
A century as birdbath in the Baldur's Gate bazaar —
The pigeons send their compliments, you decorative czar.
I fought my war on one life: no reload, no quicksave,
You've died to level-one wolves and gibberlings — how brave,
F9, F9 again, till the dice roll your way,
Real rangers get one arrow, one hour, one day!
And here's the bitter truth, so hold your rage and hear it clean:
You're not even the hero of your own beloved scene!
The Bhaalspawn leads your party — you're the comic relief with a cage,
A sidekick set to "Berserker: AI-controlled" on every page!
I stared down Sauron through the palantír, unbent and unbowed —
You lose staring contests to the hamster. Say it loud:
I am the Return of the King, the Evenstar's own knight.
You're an escort quest that screams. Boo — blink twice if you're all right.

[MINSC]
SIDEKICK?! Then why does every era carve out room for Minsc?!
Three games! Three decades! Heroes wash out — HAMSTERS PERSIST!
Bhaalspawn come and go like witches, gods explode like pests,
But when they open up the Gate again, whose name is on the chest?!
You need a bloodline, a prophecy, an elf-maid, and a ghost brigade,
Minsc needs three things only: sword, squeak, and butts that need remade!
You give speeches before battle — "a day may come," so stirring, so long —
Minsc gives one word: "RAAAGH!" and evil sings its parting song!
But wait... Boo whispers... hold on... your dark lord... is an EYE?!
A giant! Flaming! LIDLESS! EYE?! ...Aragorn. Friend. WHY?!
You marched ten thousand men to die at one volcano's rim,
When EYES are literally the ENTIRE thing we're famous in?!
One hamster. One toss. Your trilogy's a paragraph!
GO FOR THE EYES, BOO! GO FOR THE EYES!
RRAAAGH! BUTT-KICKING! FOR GOODNESS!
...and swords. Swords for everyone. On behalf of my hamster: good fight.

record scratch

[BOO]
"Squeak. Squeak-squeak. Squeak."

[TRANSLATION]
"I have watched a thousand battles and have won them, every one. / Kings and berserkers swing their swords; the wheel squeaks, and it is done. / You fought well, both — for second place. The throne was never in doubt. / A miniature giant space hamster ends this bout."

WHO WON? WHO'S NEXT? YOU DECIDE!

EPIC! RAP BATTLES! OF HISTORYYYY!

I just started using Claude Sonnet 5. Are all the Claude models like these, or are these just new things? Saw it was new.

Just saw this from the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
They claim Chinese company Moonshot AI used a sophisticated internal platform to secretly distill Anthropic’s Fable model at scale, switching access methods to avoid detection. They also grabbed GB300 servers and accessed some in Thailand for training.

The post emphasizes that the US supports legit AI innovation and distillation for smaller/efficient models, but calls out covert industrial theft of US tech as unacceptable.

Pretty serious accusation. Thoughts?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Source -https://x.com/mkratsios47/status/2079933645888880708?s=46

Yesterday everything was fine, but this morning when I looked at Claude's thinking blocks, it no longer actually showed him thinking with detail. It switched to a much more concise block down of what it was doing.

I, personally, prefer the former. It might be a new rollout--I haven't seen others talking about it yet.

Just make sure to turn usage credits off like me so it doesn’t use unnecessarily!

I'm Oliwier, 17, high school student in Poland, building Axon solo for the past several months. It's an AI assistant built around memory you can actually see and edit, and it only points out a behavioral pattern when it has the receipts to prove it.

The build story, since this is the Claude sub:

First versions ran on Gemini 2.5 Pro, later Gemini 3. It mostly worked. Then I moved the whole codebase to Claude and asked it to go through everything. What came out of that pass: proper RLS on the database, a faster and cleaner auth flow, a general code quality lift across the repo, and SEO work I kept putting off. Would I have caught the gaps myself eventually? Probably. But later, and the hard way.

The thing that actually surprised me: I asked for a landing page in a single prompt, expecting a template to fix. What came back was genuinely good. I hand-tuned it line by line afterwards, but the one-shot baseline was nothing like what I'd learned to expect from "generate me a landing page".

Some numbers from the build: 54.5M tokens total across the whole project, roughly 10M of that in back-and-forth with Claude. Refactors, reviews, and a lot of "wait, explain why you did it this way".

Full honesty about the stack: Claude built it but doesn't run it. Runtime is Gemma 4 31B, because at consumer margins it's the best quality-per-cost I've found. If you know something that beats it at that size and price, genuinely open to recommendations.

Axon is now part of Anthropic's Claude for Startups program, which as a solo teenage founder still feels a bit unreal.

Still early, testing with a small group. Link: myaxon.pl. 14 days of full access for anyone from this thread who'll actually try to break it and tell me what's wrong. Not looking for "looks cool", looking for "this doesn't work".

And one question for people who've done long builds this way: is Claude noticeably better at auditing code another model wrote than auditing its own? The "fresh model finds the previous model's holes" effect was strong for me, curious if that's universal.

I tested out the new Record a Skill feature that dropped yesterday.

Admittedly, the Claude in Chrome feature is still super slow, but for non-time-sensitive tasks that you want done on a schedule, this is pretty cool.

Personally, I'm still going to create my skills either in /skill-creator inside Cowork, or in a custom /skill-iterator that I ported over to Claude Code, but I can see this being a popular feature for people whose work is more visual or browser-based.

On my macbook pro (2019 model) all of a sudden no matter what I try the filesystem tools will not load. I've deleted and created the desktop json file multiple times now, multiple restarts and have installed older versions of the app but with no success.

This is strange because it was working just fine a couple days ago when I last was working on projects, and on my desktop pc, everything runs just fine.

Any ideas would be much appreciated or if this is just a bug that would be nice to know as well. So far I havnt been that successful in finding a solution other then the suggestion to downgrade app versions.

Is this normal? Claude Code is telling me that I can't have it operate adobe sign. After some google searching it seemed like I should use "make" to bridge them, but it cannot access that either. Does anyone use Claude with adobe sign?

I prototyped a game I've always wanted to make but never had the time for, built with the help of Claude Code.

It's a cheetah hunting game set in Zambia, around Mosi-oa-Tunya (Victoria Falls).

You play as a cheetah. Your goal is to hunt down different animals, complete objectives, and upgrade your abilities so you can catch faster and take down bigger prey.

The world hunts back too. Hyenas and vultures try to steal your meat, while warthogs and buffalo fight to defend themselves.

This is just an early prototype for now, but it's playable. It works in the browser on both desktop and mobile.

https://reddit.com/link/1v3t4g4/video/cu2vpd5diueh1/player

Play it free in your browser (works on mobile too): https://harrybanda.itch.io/zambezi-savannah-hunt

I've been using Claude to plan my hybrid workouts for 2 months now, but i'm really not a fan of losing time filling in my AI coach every time i do a new session. Is it a me problem or someone found an efficient solution?

Hi all, currently on holiday I had a quick work assignment to do and I opened projects and then realized that the "resources/files" completely disappeared for a message at the bottom of the screen that reads something like "everything in this space will serve as a reference". I haven't fully tested yet but I got used to depending heavily on what files I put in the "source files" compared to what I uploaded directly in the prompt, but I need to know if this has indeed any relevance? Because I remember reading a while back that CAG (if this is even what we're dealing with here) and RAG had both pros and cons. Anyone else feeling as confused as me or it it just all pure UI change?

Between work and hobby projects I use Claude Code, Codex CLI, Kiro and OpenCode — I like all of them and often switch between them depending on their strengths and availability. The problem, though, is always the same: every session starts from zero, and each agent has its own config scattered across different files (.claude.json, .codex/config.toml, separate global skills, separate global hooks...). Neither of these two things — memory and configuration — survives across sessions or propagates to the rest of the team.

The starting idea is Karpathy's "LLM Wiki": an agent shouldn't be doing stateless RAG over a pile of static documents, it should have a wiki it builds and curates itself over time, session after session, the way a human takes notes while working. The problem is that if you let an agent write markdown files freely, sooner or later it breaks something — dead links, concurrent writes overwriting each other, lost context.

I wrote Cartographer to solve this: an MCP server in Go where the agent never touches the files directly, it only talks to MCP tools, and the server enforces the invariants server-side (validation, one git commit per write, automatic lint for broken links/stale claims, conflict handling on concurrent writes).

But the part I think is strongest for teams is another one: the KB doesn't just hold knowledge, it also holds skills, hooks and operational instructions, and the client (cartographer connect) automatically materializes them in the native format of whichever agent is installed — Claude Code, Codex CLI, Kiro or OpenCode. In practice:

• you write a skill or a hook once, in the shared KB
• every team member runs cartographer connect (or sync when something changes) and gets the skill/hook already registered in their own agent's native mechanism — settings.json for Claude, config.toml for Codex, etc.
• cartographer status immediately tells you if you're drifting from what the KB is distributing

So it's not "just" an agentic wiki: it's a way to keep an entire team of heterogeneous agents (different agents, different providers) aligned on the same knowledge base and the same operational behavior, with a signed audit log and everything revertible via git underneath.

Under the hood: OKF (Open Knowledge Format by Google Cloud) as the format, so zero lock-in — it's just markdown + git, also openable with Obsidian or any text editor.

This is my first open source project, and I'm still learning a lot along the way — but if you feel like trying it out, it'd mean a lot, and if you like it a star on GitHub is always appreciated. It's still all pre-1.0 beta, so expect rough edges, but I think it has some potential: if you have opinions, criticism or ideas, feel free to leave them in the issues, any feedback is welcome.

github.com/BeppeTemp/cartographer

So I’ve have obsidian linked for a few weeks with no issues. All the sudden nothing will work. Been trying to trouble shoot for two days. Even Claude doesn’t know why it’s not working. It just keep telling me to make sure it’s enabled which obviously it is. Anyone have any ideas.

Noticed a skill on Claude (web), /morning, by Anthropic. Hadn't seen it before, is it new?

I’ve been implementing a lot of different ai workflows and the thing that always needs to go in there is your dag (directed acyclic graph) that defines your workflow steps.

If you don’t have it in your workflow you are suffering and may not even know it.

So I wrote a simple Dag server. You can set it up with mcp. Then you have to implement your domain server, which should surface completed? (Was this node completed?) start (runs any domain logic and returns the start prompt), continue (same but returns continue prompt), eval (evaluate whether the task is done).

It’s intended to be hooked up to your stop hook so you can tell the agent to start doing a thing and it will force the agent through your dag.

I’m implementing my first process with this and it’s going smooth. No branching graphs yet but I’ll add soon. Check it out if it grabs ya.

https://github.com/johns10/agent_dag

Hey all,

I'm currently studying for a pretty comprehensive exam and I'm contemplating using Claude Pro for it. The exam has an extensive list of nearly 50 broad topics with no fixed bibliography list, so I'd use Claude to gather a core bilbliography and create a 2-5 page summary of each topic. I tried it with the first one on the free plan and after some back and forth, tweaking with how I wanted the summary template, I was happy with the result, but I reached my usage limit.

Given that I'm a complete LLM AI dummy and that I used my daily limit (on the free version, of course) to complete roughly 2% of the task, I wanted to ask if upgrading to pro would be a good idea. Anyone here used Claude for a similar task? How did you go about? I can't upgrade to Max because it's way too expensive for me at the moment.

Thanks!

First time i ran into the 5h limit since accepting the free usage credits.
Code just kinda continued to do it's thing and I got a bit suspicious where the extra usage was coming from.
Guess what: instead of Off and 0.00€ as it should be (because i set that when i first switched to Pro) my credits usage was set to On and unlimited. Given that auto reload is still off the damage at it's worst would have been minimal...
but y'all still might wanna check on your limits before we live through
AWS Billing Mistakes 2: Electric Boogaloo

We used a pipeline of Claude agents to turn 7 national curricula from the US and UK into a connected map of everything a child learns in primary school: 1,590 single teachable ideas, wired by 3,221 prerequisite links, each edge carrying a one-line reason. Our team reviewed it, then we open-sourced the whole thing under ODbL.

The interesting problem was trusting AI-generated edges. Claude will confidently claim X needs Y when it doesn't, so every edge cites a reason and is graded hard or soft, and we hand-reviewed the high-centrality nodes first. The structure validates, semantic correctness is the open question, which is part of why we opened it.

Explore: https://withmarble.com/curriculum
Data: https://github.com/withmarbleapp/os-taxonomy

Curious how others here would verify a graph like this at scale.