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AI · June 29, 2026

Redline

Token and Time budgeting tool for Claude Code

Redline launched on June 29, 2026 with 8 votes, #1,599 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.

What it does

Set a budget inside Claude Code: /redline 10m $5. You get a live burn-down in your statusline, and Claude Code paces itself to finish inside it. Three guarantees: never over (the budget is a hard ceiling), under is success (it lands around 90% with the task done), never abrupt (it always wraps up with a usable result, no mid-sentence kill). One budget covers every subagent the session spawns. Built entirely on Claude Code's native hooks. Zero dependencies, MIT, open source.

Token and time budgeting for Claude Code. It paces the session to finish inside the budget. - sankalpgunturi/redline

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