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IdeaCompetitiveCLIOPEN-SOURCEDEVTOOLLive

A CLI tool that tracks your Claude Agent SDK credit burn rate in real time and routes tasks to the cheapest qualifying model before credits run out

Starting June 15 2026, Anthropic splits Claude subscription billing into two pools. Agent SDK usage (OpenClaw, claude -p, GitHub Actions, third-party agents) gets a separate monthly credit with hard caps ($20 for Pro, $100 for Max 5x, $200 for Max 20x) and no rollover. Developers running agents through Claude subscriptions face a new constraint: fixed monthly budgets that burn fast on inefficient prompts. This tool monitors Agent SDK credit consumption per task, alerts before exhaustion, and optionally reroutes low-priority agent tasks to cheaper providers (OpenRouter, local models) when credits drop below a configurable threshold.

Gap Assessment

CompetitiveMultiple tools exist but differentiation opportunities remain

3 tools exist (OpenRouter, Helicone, LiteLLM) but gaps remain: No awareness of Anthropic Agent SDK credit pools, no automatic fallback when credits run low, no per-task attribution; No Agent SDK credit pool monitoring, no automatic model downgrade routing, no credit exhaustion alerts.

Features3 agent-ready prompts

Real-time Agent SDK credit usage tracker that polls Anthropic billing API and displays remaining credits, burn rate, and projected exhaustion date
Per-task cost attribution that tags each agent invocation with a task ID and reports which tasks consume the most credits
Automatic model downgrade router that switches to a cheaper model when Agent SDK credits drop below a user-defined threshold

Competitive LandscapeFREE

ProductDoesMissing
OpenRouterUniversal API gateway routing to 400+ models with per-request cost trackingNo awareness of Anthropic Agent SDK credit pools, no automatic fallback when credits run low, no per-task attribution
HeliconeLLM observability platform with cost tracking, latency monitoring, and request loggingNo Agent SDK credit pool monitoring, no automatic model downgrade routing, no credit exhaustion alerts
LiteLLMUniversal LLM proxy supporting 100+ providers with spend tracking and budget limitsNo Anthropic Agent SDK credit-specific tracking, budget limits are static not credit-pool-aware

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