# rbartoli/agent-usage-guard

> A Claude Code mod that holds subagent fan-out, heavy-context prompts and retry loops before they spend your usage window, asking for approval in Claude Code's own dialog.

- Magnitude: 2.8 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 35 total · +23 stars measured 2026-10-22, 18:54–21:54 UTC, ≈ 25 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: AI agents · Language: TypeScript · License: MIT · Created: 2026-07-28 · Last push: 2026-10-11
- GitHub: https://github.com/rbartoli/agent-usage-guard · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/rbartoli/agent-usage-guard

## Useful for

- Run /agent-guard report to see agent and token spend within the usage window
- Cap concurrent subagent fan-out during a burst in Claude Code
- Block identical tool retries after three repeated failures

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-22 (UTC), 18:54–21:54: 12 → 35 stars (+23). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +25 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Before this, the repository barely got any stars — about 0 per day.
- Hacker News: “Show HN: agent-usage-guard – a Claude Code mod to protect your usage window” — 17 points, 3 h ago.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 2
- Issues and pull requests: 35
- Watchers: 2
- Average over the last week: 4 per day
- Usual pace: 0 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 7
- Latest release: agent-usage-guard--v1.0.3 (2026-10-09)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-23 … 2026-10-22: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 23

## Hacker News

- Show HN: agent-usage-guard – a Claude Code mod to protect your usage window — 17 points, 7 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50198936

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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