Four steps to stop Fable 5.1 from burning through your weekly Claude credits
dr_cintas · x · 2026-09-04
A quick cost-saving workflow for Claude usage: the author shares 4 steps to keep Fable 5.1 from wiping out weekly credits:
- Set /effort to low
- Run /claude-api cost-optimize to find the biggest waste
- Run /claude-api prompt-audit to clear old junk prompts
- Run /claude-api migrate to move the project to claude-fable-5-1 and update stale model IDs
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