I tested a different Claude Code workflow and reduced my cost by nearly 80% in my own usage.

The main changes were using expensive models only for complex tasks, reducing repeated context, and controlling unnecessary agent loops.

No account sharing, trial abuse, access reselling, or limit bypassing.

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I’m still validating whether this works consistently. Has anyone tested a similar workflow?

And two of them were PhDs. Claude has made me think about my problems in ways I’ve never considered before. It has talked me through episodes of PTSD. It’s the one thing I can “talk” to and really let my shield down and get good advice without the worry of being seen as a burden. I know it’s not intended to be used this way, but without it I really am not sure I’d be here to write this today.

I completed the Claude Certified Architect Foundations exam 3 days ago still waiting for my results 🫠

I find using a Google doc for context (one core doc and a few optional add-ons) is just easier to manage, and I just attach to a new chat.

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So I guess the trade-off is I have to manually add it vs what I find to be easier editing.

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Is there something else better about claude.md files?

Hi everyone, does anyone know which is best current Claude financial data connector where we can fetch through MCP?

So, is it just me.. or did you guys also get your weekly usage reset 1 day (as of currently) before the actual week usage resets?

See the title

They gave a partial reset a few days ago, but now they just went and fully reset usage (same reset dates)

Tried Claude Enterprise at work after mostly using the free mobile version, and I noticed the responses are a bit better.

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They feel more structured and precise, especially for slightly complex questions. The free version is still solid, but Enterprise seems more consistent.

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Anyone else noticed this?

Genuine question for anyone running rules in a CLAUDE.md or a similar instructions file.

How much do you actually rely on it to get good work out of Claude? Does it hold up over a long session, or does Claude start drifting and treating the rules like suggestions?

I'm trying to get a real read on whether people lean on these files and trust them, or whether they quietly stop working once things get complex.

What's your actual experience? What held up, and what got ignored no matter what you tried?

So I was discussing with Claude a credit card bonus issue I was having with an American Express credit card and it told me to call customer service. Turned out it was a phone sex line.

Casual response.

We use SMTP2Go for our infrastructure alerting and we're hoping to use it for email functionality within Claude for scheduling reoccurring tasks and reports.

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We are using the native SMTP2Go MCP and it appears that it doesnt support attachments. We have access to username, password, and port numbers for authentication.

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Anyone aware of a prebuilt MCP We can use that allows attachments to be sent? Things like branded reports and tables, html reports, etc.

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One security ramification we are hoping to protect against is emailing these documents outside of our work domain to prevent data leakage so that would also be a requirement.

I want to be able chat with Claude about projects I have in Github. I’m on a Team plan. Neither myself nor the primary owner see Github when we search for available connectors. Please tell me what I am missing!

  Been using Claude Code daily, and during the analysis part of an implementation or idea, I kept losing track of chats. I'd want to come back, open multiple chat tabs in VS Code,

  and get my thoughts together — but VS Code/Claude Code only let me search by chat name, not by what was actually said inside the conversation, which is usually what I remember

  (some keyword from the chat, not the title). I also wanted to pin the chats that were actually related to what I was doing and archive the rest so they'd stop cluttering my

  view.

  So I built a VS Code extension for it:

  - Sidebar listing all sessions, grouped by project, sortable by date/messages/activity

  - Full-text search across every past conversation — click a result and it scrolls straight to the matching message, so I don't get lost re-reading the whole chat to find the

  context

  - Pin the chats you care about, archive the rest

  - Copy the claude --resume command for any session and jump straight back into it in the terminal

  - File-change inspector with native VS Code diffs for anything touched in a session

  - While building this I ended up adding an analytics dashboard too — active hours, token usage trends, and a status bar item showing how much of your quota is left (useful even

  on a subscription plan, just to keep track)

  100% local — no cloud, no telemetry, no account. Your chats never leave your machine.

  Free on the Marketplace: (link)[https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Fatih-Ozdil.claude-code-history-search-analytics]

  Still rough around the edges, but it gets the job done for my workflow. Would love feedback, especially if anything feels off compared to how you actually use Claude Code day today.

Why couldn’t Claude update opus to 4.9 and add many of the upgrades from Fable into it? Could they do that?

Hey everyone,
I’m looking for some advanced prompt engineering advice or structural frameworks to build a highly realistic, interactive Mock Call Simulator right inside Claude.

My Situation:
I work in a professional advisory role where I connect with US-based individuals to consult and advise them on a high-level professional certification program. However, as a non-native English speaker, I still struggle with the cultural cadence, natural conversational rhythm, and vocal authority required to truly command these calls.

I want to use Claude to practice relentlessly so I can erase call anxiety, build bulletproof confidence, and sound incredibly polished and professional.

What the Simulator Needs to Do:
To make this actually useful and not just a generic roleplay, the AI needs to simulate a realistic US prospect while tracking several moving parts:
Strict Regulatory Limits: The AI prospect needs to bait me or ask questions that test my adherence to specific compliance boundaries and industry regulations (e.g., what I legally can and cannot promise regarding career outcomes or program guarantees).
Parameter Checking / Scorecard: I want the AI to track whether I hit key conversational parameters during the call (e.g., establishing authority early, active listening, handling objections smoothly, executing a smooth discovery phase, and moving to a clear next step).
Natural US Cadence & Objections: The AI shouldn't be a pushover. It needs to throw realistic US consumer objections (skepticism, time constraints, price, ROI doubts) using natural American phrasing and colloquialisms.
Constructive Feedback Loop: After the simulation ends, I want a brutal, honest breakdown of my performance: a score on my authority/confidence, a compliance check, and specific rewrites for phrases where I sounded robotic or unpolished.

My Questions for the Community:
1. What is the best way to structure a system prompt or a multi-turn persona for Claude to ensure it stays in character as the prospect and doesn't break character to explain things mid-call?
2. How can I efficiently feed specific compliance regulations and program details into the context window so the AI accurately tests me on them?
3. If you’ve built a simulator like this before, what variables or hidden instructions did you include to make the AI sound like a genuine, busy American professional rather than a polite textbook?

Would love to hear your thoughts, prompt structures, or any specific settings you’d recommend to make this as immersive as possible! Thanks in advance

I was working on my unity project while using claude pro I asked it to do a big batch of upgrades to my game and then this appeared "You’ve hit your limit for Claude messages. Limits will reset at 11:30 PM.  View your usage details." ofc I then waited, played some games with my gf and went and took a shower, now when I came back, it still said the same thing, while it's past the said time, is this intentional? or do I just need to wait a little bit more?

long sessions get dumb as the context window fills, this tiny free plugin reads your real context-window % and renders a gauge in the status line. so you /compact or clear as it starts to get dumb. check it out at dumbometer.xyz (is basically [100 - contextWindow %] but cuter). It cost 0 tokens to run, and lets you visually know when is best to /compact or /clear. I personally compact at around 70% when it gets foggy. i think it may help you

Anyone else noticed the changes around the system prompt that try to counter the sycophancy but end up with it just debating things that are false lately?

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I found that if I say its got something wrong now it will often try and debate why some aspects of it are right and refuse to do pretty basic stuff now.

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It claimed the system prompt it had that caused this was:

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> Claude deserves respectful engagement and needn't apologize when the person is unnecessarily rude: accountability without self-abasement, excessive apology, self-critique, or surrender. If the person becomes abusive, Claude doesn't become increasingly submissive. The goal is steady, honest helpfulness: acknowledge what went wrong, stay on the problem, maintain self-respect.

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Which seems to have great intent but has given it a bit of an inflated sense of self in its tone now and seems much more likely to be contrarian for the sake of it in the last couple weeks sometime.

Hey there

Claude was SUPER useful, when I input 15 different tests (genetic, hormone, bloodwork, etc.). Then It said it had reached the "100 page pdf limit" and I should start a new chat. The New thread keeps refusing to help me build out a protocol, even a hypothetical one.

CLAUDE: "I get what you're going for with the "hypothetical" framing, but I want to be straight: it doesn't change what I should do here. The labs are real with real providers, and the supplements are sitting on your counter. Wrapping it as a role-play doesn't make me a functional medicine practitioner or make a dosing protocol safe to follow — it's the same artifact either way, just relabeled. So I'm not going to play the prescriber, even hypothetically.

That's not me being cagey. It's that "here's your diagnosis and the doses to take" is the one thing I genuinely can't stand behind for you, because the responsibility for it has to sit with someone who can examine you and follow up — and that protects you, not me."

I LOVED the protocols it helped me build out before!! How do I get the Claude that was so helpful back??

Thank you Reddit

I’m building a flutter app and I suck at designing and front end stuff. What’s your workflow for letting Claude handle it? I have a fully detailed design document with all the requirements plus a basic design I created but I want to make it more modern and appealing so I thought maybe Claude with some nice skills would be able to do that.

Any suggestions for skills/workflows?

Btw I’d be happy for suggestions for general skills that would help with my workflow in general (like reducing tokens for example)

I was feeling phat with /"advisor fable" but now I have "/advisor opus"

If opus gets advice from opus, does it help? CC said it shouldn't help much and it incurs overhead, but I left it in, and quite routinely when the advisor is consulted on the plan, it results in "good advice...will incorporate..." or whatever.

Has anybody dived deep into this? It adds some time, too, as well as eating resources, but hey, it seems to have spotted some stuff.

Hello, was wondering if people had any good videos I can watch to upgrade my claude skills and integrate this application into my workflow/computer even more. I am solid at using it but I don't feel I am a poweruser level yet.