Show HN: Thinker – Trim context and cache knowledge to extend agent usage limits
I’ve been doing a lot of solo development lately and found myself hitting Claude token limits halfway through the week constantly. Even with a Max plan, I’d have to switch over to Codex or Cursor, and it would be a bit difficult to get used to the nuances of each harness. It’s still a problem for me, but I finally built Thinker to save me some tokens and help me get a bit more out of my coding agent subscriptions. I started off a bit in the dark about how token billing works, and had to dig deep
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2026-11-05 21:15:31.861Z
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Source account: I’ve been doing a lot of solo development lately and found myself hitting Claude token limits halfway through the week constantly. Even with a Max plan, I’d have to switch over to Codex or Cursor, and it would be a bit difficult to get used to the nuances of each harness. It’s still a problem for me, but I finally built Thinker to save me some tokens and help me get a bit more out of my coding agent subscriptions. I started off a bit in the dark about how token billing works, and had to dig deep
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