This is where putting a provider-agnostic code agent between you and claude can save your bacon.

I can't speak for how other agents work, but in juggler the conversations are stored in a cross-model format, so if claude runs out of tokens or goes titsup during something urgent, I can just switch models to GPT and carry on without needing to restart the task.

From what I've seen the pricing is intentionally hostile towards third party, and therefore provider-agnostic, code agents. I have never used "Claude Code" or "Google Antimatter" or whatever it's called, I only use OpenCode, but I think the intent behind them and the reason only they, and not API access, is included in their static pricing is very transparent. If you want API access you are forced to pay-as-you-go, and many "normal people" do not want that. My way of solving it is simply using OpenRouter, setting up blacklists for models and pretty strict spending limits.

Yup.

exe.dev works the same way.

Also convenient to continue working when security rules cause the agent to refuse to help you. Today I got Claude to finish something GPT refused to do.