Comment by headcanon

I've been trying to toe the line here myself, here's how I've been doing it. For context, I pay for a Max 5x subscription.

My main goal is to maximize my subscription token usage while trying to comply with the rules, but its not clear where the line is for automation so I feel like I need to be clever.

- regular development (most token use): all interactive claude mode, standard use case

- automated background development: experimenting with claude routines (first-class feature, on subscription)

- personal non-nanoclaw claude automations (claude -p): uses subscription token, but only called as needed (generally just fix something if something in my homelab infra goes does down, its set up to not fire on an exact cron time)

- other LLM based automations: usually openrouter API key, cheap models as needed

- nanoclaw: all API key based, but since its expensive I keep usage mostly minimal and try to defer anything heavyweight to one of the other automation strategies (nanoclaw mainly just connects my homelab infra with telegram)