I made a Claude skill for claude.ai web (free tier) that outputs a heredoc command for code changes instead of wasting tokens reprinting your whole file

April 26, 2026 at 7:13 PM · 0 reactions · 0 comments · 0 views

Whenever I asked Claude to make a code change it would reprint the entire file with like 400 lines of unchanged code just to swap out one component. Burning through your daily limit for no reason. So I made a skill that changes how Claude responds. Instead of reprinting the file it outputs a single heredoc command you paste into your terminal and run. File gets edited and Claude only used tokens for the lines that actually changed. Who this is for: claude.ai web users on free tier. If you're usi

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I made a Claude skill for claude.ai web (free tier) that outputs a heredoc command for code changes instead of wasting tokens reprinting your whole file

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