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23 things that stop Claude eating your tokens

The 23 open-source repos that stop Claude burning your limit, grouped by the four jobs they do: get context in, remember it, see the burn, cut the burn. Install in order. Star counts read 18/08/2026.

Charlie Hills Added 24 August 2026 · Free

What’s inside

  1. 101: Get context in
  2. 202: Remember it
  3. 303: See the burn
  4. 404: Cut the burn
  5. 5If you only install five
  6. 6Two honest caveats

01, Get context in

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Repo

What it does

Stars

01

OmniRoute

340 providers and 90+ free tiers, one endpoint

50.1k

02

9router

Free routing for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor

25.7k

03

context7

Current library docs, so it stops guessing APIs

60.9k

04

codegraph

A pre-indexed map, so it stops re-reading files

66.9k

05

codebase-memory-mcp

Indexes the repo once, then just queries it

39.3k

06

haystack

Context-engineered pipelines, not raw dumps

26.2k

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