Make Your Claude Limit Last: the Haiku Helper and 3 Habits
Microsoft is reportedly capping what its staff can spend on AI. You can't set that budget, but you can stop spending yours on easy jobs. The helper file that hands them to Haiku 5.5, the habits from Anthropic's cost page, and the catch
On October 7, Crypto Briefing reported that Microsoft cut the monthly AI spending ceilings for most of its Cloud & AI staff from about $100,000 to about $10,000. These are ceilings, not actual spend, and neither company has confirmed it.
You don't control that budget. You do control how fast your own Claude limit drains. Here's the helper file, three habits and the catch.
Step 1: make the helper file
- In your project, create the folder .claude/agents (or use ~/.claude/agents to have it in every project).
- Create a file there called haiku-helper.md and paste the file below.
- Open Claude Code and check it with /agents: haiku-helper should be listed.
PASTE INTO haiku-helper.md --- name: haiku-helper description: Use for easy, low-risk jobs: reading logs, searching files, listing folders, renames, one-line edits. model: haiku --- You do small, well-defined jobs fast. Read what you are asked to read, report exactly what you find in short lines, and say so if the job turns out to be harder than it looked.
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