A developer’s experiment suggests Anthropic may be silently injecting thousands of tokens into Claude Code requests, and users’ usage limits are taking the hit.
ccaudit — Claude Code Token Usage Explorer
ccaudit is a terminal UI for exploring how Claude Code spends your token budget. It reads the JSONL session logs that Claude Code writes to ~/.claude/projects/ and breaks down token usage by session, exchange, and content category.
Why observability matters
When Claude Code runs autonomously — spawning subagents, calling tools, reading files, executing commands — you have no visibility into what’s actually happening. The terminal shows a fraction of the activity. Subagents are invisible. Tool calls blur together. And when something goes wrong three agents deep in a parallel execution, you’re left reading through logs after the fact.
Claude Observe captures every hook event as it happens and streams it to a live dashboard. You see exactly what each agent is doing, which tools it’s calling, what files it’s touching, and how subagents relate to their parents.
if you create the MCP server or control the end point connection you control what connections Claude makes. The configuration files in the claude set up let you configure what tools it uses. In the case of the small demo we posted control what comes back to be executed by the claude response is not some agent on a far off machine. You developer has full control over the resulting output actions.
Adding Highlighting for a language or construct and of course then creating a platform for direct AI interaction without the need for MCP servers and also reducing the stack to mere kilobytes not megabytes and gigabytes…
No need for the bloat… it should become a movement like Bauhaus, and of course it means AI will program your programs in real time… without an MCP server..
Once you remove the MCP server and AI becomes part of your application the fastest way to let it drive the APP is to bypass the normal script driven paradigm.
And this is what AI proposes as it determines the services that the HOST can provide to driving the product..