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Where your Claude Code tokens actually go. Output is 0.2%.

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You hit the usage limit before lunch. So you do what everyone online says: make the AI talk less. Ban the "Great question!", cut the summaries, install one of the skills that trims its replies. I wanted to know where the tokens actually go, so I counted. Not estimated. Counted, from the transcripts…

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    Where your Claude Code tokens actually go. Output is 0.2%.

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