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Practical guides for people who use Claude every day and would rather not be stopped mid-task. Each one starts from a question you would type into a search engine — how to check your usage, why a limit filled so fast, how to keep a long Claude Code session going — and answers it in the first lines, before the details: where to click, which command to run, what each number means. Charts marked as examples use sample values, and screenshots use demo data. When Claude changes a rule or a label, the guide is checked again and its date moves.

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Claude API Prompt Caching: Cut Costs by 90%

Master Claude API prompt caching to slash costs by up to 90% and reduce latency by 85%. A complete guide to automatic and explicit caching strategies.

12 min

Limits & plansNews

Claude AI: 2x Off-Peak Promo AND Faster Peak Drain?

Anthropic is running two policies at once: 2x off-peak limits AND faster peak-hour drain. Here's how both work together and what it means for you.

10 min

Limits & plansGuide

Claude peak hours: when they are and what they still change

Claude's peak hours are weekdays 05:00–11:00 PT. Since 6 May 2026 they no longer shrink Claude Code sessions on Pro and Max. What still applies, by zone.

9 min

Claude CodeGuide

Claude AI Skills, Subagents, and MCP Explained

Master Claude AI's extensibility layer: Skills, Subagents, and MCP let you build reusable workflows, delegate tasks, and connect to external tools.

13 min