How I burned 389K Claude Code cache-creation tokens before the real prompt

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skinny.cloud — Lean AI ops

// lean ai opsYour AI is running fat.<br>We built the cure — because we got the bill first.<br>zsh — claude-diet

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Big Tech wants you to buy more context. We want you to need less.

// how it works<br>01 / run it<br>One command. No install. No account.<br>Paste it in your terminal. The script fetches, runs, and tells you exactly what your Claude Code setup loads before you type a prompt.

02 / diet card<br>Your runtime diet card prints immediately<br>No dashboard. No account. The card prints right in the terminal — largest surfaces, hidden memory, hooks, skills, and the top suspect identified.

03 / rules + report<br>Rules generated. Report saved. Done.<br>Three next-session rules written from your actual setup. A full report folder dropped in your project directory — card, worksheet, baseline, passport.

diet — audit

$ curl -sL https://skinny.cloud/diet.sh | bash

skinny.cloud Runtime Diet Autopilot<br>Fetching scripts from github.com/<br>skinny-cloud/runtime-diet-autopilot... ◐

[1/4] Baseline generated.<br>[2/4] Extracting top surfaces and<br>hidden memory...<br>[3/4] Writing worksheet, card,<br>passport, rule, index...

diet — audit

$ curl -sL https://skinny.cloud/diet.sh | bash

skinny.cloud Runtime Diet Autopilot<br>Fetching scripts from github.com/<br>skinny-cloud/runtime-diet-autopilot... ◐

[1/4] Baseline generated.<br>[2/4] Extracting top surfaces and<br>hidden memory...<br>[3/4] Writing worksheet, card,<br>passport, rule, index...

diet — card

┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓┃ My Claude Runtime Diet Card ┃┣━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┫┃ Largest visible surface ┃┃ ~/.claude/projects - 819MB ┃┃ ┃┃ Hidden project memory total biggest invisible cost ┃┃ 818.2MiB across 24 projects ┃┃ ┃┃ Largest hidden project memory ┃┃ -home-axw-ASIF - 256MB (381 files) ┃┃ ┃┃ Hooks: 2 | MCP servers: 2 | Skills: 35 | Agents: 2 ┃┃ ┃┃ Top suspect ┃┃ Long-lived session transcript; old branches make the next session ┃┃ heavier than the prompt looks. ┃┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛

diet — lean

[4/4] Done.

Runtime Diet Report written to:<br>~/projects/dx3/<br>runtime-diet-report-20260508

Open first:<br>my-runtime-diet-card.md<br>NEXT-SESSION-RULE.md

Next session rules (generated):<br>1) Start fresh, don't drag old branches<br>2) Prune ~/.claude/projects — 818MB<br>3) Cap MCP + skills + agents per task

Layer 1<br>Runtime Diet Autopilot<br>Audit your Claude Code context in 60 seconds. Free.<br>One shell script scans your CLAUDE.md files, hooks, and memory surfaces, then hands you a Runtime Diet Card — exactly where your tokens are going and what to cut first. No account. No email. No catch.<br>.arrow]:transition-transform [&>.arrow]:duration-[260ms] [&>.arrow]:[transition-timing-function:cubic-bezier(0.22,1,0.36,1)] hover:[&>.arrow]:translate-x-1 bg-transparent text-signal border border-signal hover:bg-signal hover:text-ink-950 text-sm px-5 py-2.5" href="/diet">Get the script →

curlwgetinspect<br>Copy<br>$ curl -sL https://skinny.cloud/diet.sh | bash

$0/mo saved<br>receipts

0 projects<br>in production

0s audit<br>no signup

Across 15 active AI projects, context discipline alone cut Claude costs by $750/month.

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