burn

burn is a command for Claude Code from tbobm/dont-burn-it-all. It costs 32 tokens per session (357 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line launcher that uses a Claude Code subscription's five-hour usage allowance for several parallel work sessions and stops at a chosen usage level.

In plain words
What is it for?
Run a specified coding task in parallel sessions, report usage and errors, or watch the current five-hour usage window until a target is reached.
Why use it?
It helps use remaining subscription time deliberately instead of running sessions continuously or checking usage by hand.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the dont-burn-it-all plugin — 1 skill, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Run a specified coding task in parallel sessions, report usage and errors, or watch the current five-hour usage window until a target is reached.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add tbobm/dont-burn-it-all
Claude Code
/plugin install dont-burn-it-all

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dont-burn-it-all, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 command.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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Per session 32 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 357 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00032 $0.00357
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00179
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00036

Measured 8d ago against content hash bc21b58c76f7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

burn scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

commands/burn.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

Run the burn CLI once for the user and report its output. Do NOT loop or re-invoke it — each /burn is a single, self-contained launch. The human decides when to run it again.

Steps:

  1. Build the binary if it is missing: test -x "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/burn" || go build -o "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/burn" "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}"
  2. Run it, passing the user's arguments verbatim: "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/burn" $ARGUMENTS
  3. Surface the summary: current 5-hour usage %, headroom to target, sessions run, any errors.

Notes:

  • Launch mode needs --goal "<task>" (e.g. /burn --goal "write unit tests for pkg/foo" --jobs 4).
  • Sessions prompt for permissions by default; add --dangerously-skip-permissions to run unattended.
  • --watch polls usage and notifies at the target, spawning nothing.
  • The first launch runs a ~3-minute preflight that proves sessions bill to the subscription (not pay-per-token API); this is intentional and cannot be skipped. If it reports a token or billing-env problem, relay the fix and stop — do not try to work around it.
  • If a permission prompt blocks reading the OAuth credential, tell the user to run the command themselves with ! "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/burn" $ARGUMENTS.
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 25 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A bc21b58c76f7

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burn is a command published in the GitHub repository tbobm/dont-burn-it-all (8 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 357 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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