Claude Code may be burning your limits with invisible tokens
jenic_
36 points
4 comments
April 13, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
a_c
I had the same suspicion so made this to examine where my tokens went. Claude code caches a big chunk of context (all messages of current session). While a lot of data is going through network, in ccaudit itself, 98% is context is from cache. Granted, to view the actual system prompt used by claude, one can only inspect network request. Otherwise best guess is token use in first exchange with Claude. https://github.com/kmcheung12/ccaudit
F7F7F7
What is the system prompt for $1000 Alex (RIP)?