agent-usage-guard
a Claude Code mod to protect your usage window
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HN · launched Oct 22, 2026 · 26 upvotes (top 29%)
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- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI feature
- Hobby / open-source project
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Yes This is a Claude Code extension that uses hooks and configuration to guard usage limits. It is a small local tool built on documented extension points.
Discussion
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Competitors mentioned: caveman, agent-usage-guard, Haiku
Concerns raised: Cold-cache sessions may cost more to resurrect, Lockouts still occur with parallel sessions
Feature requests: Per-plan presets (Pro, Max 5x, Max 20x), Control over compaction defaults, Hook to prompt compaction before sending when cache expired, Block sub-agent spawning above usage threshold
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 2233 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #577 of 2234 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 356 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Lore · hn · 2026-06-09 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- 514 · hn · 2026-08-07 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- agent-scaffold · github · 2026-10-20 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.59
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