Pause Claude Code and Codex before they burn your week
Peras puts a line in your Claude Code and Codex week. Set it (peras set weekly 85 pause) and once usage crosses it, the agent's next tool call is refused with a plain reason, so one long task can't burn the rest of your week. Resume whenever you want, from the terminal or the menu bar. Opt-in: your agents can be told their own usage. The CLI and hooks are free and MIT. The native Mac menu bar app is €4.99 once.
I kept running out of Claude Code mid-week and got tired of constantly spamming /usage to guess how much a task would eat. So I built a guard. You pick a line, like 85% of the week, and when Claude Code or Codex crosses it, the next tool call is refused with a plain reason. You can resume whenever you want, for an hour or until the reset. It started as a SwiftBar menu. Later I rewrote the menu in native because it gave me more room to customise it. The CLI and hooks are free and MIT. The Mac app is €4.99 once, which is basically paying me to sign and ship it.You can also build it yourself from the repo.
The catches: it's macOS only (Linux might work but isn't tested), it's for subscriptions, Codex hooks fail open if the hook itself breaks, and `claude -p` can't be stopped. Curious what % you'd set your line at.
About Peras on Product Hunt
“Pause Claude Code and Codex before they burn your week”
Peras launched on Product Hunt on October 23rd, 2026 and earned 82 upvotes and 10 comments, placing #18 on the daily leaderboard. Peras puts a line in your Claude Code and Codex week. Set it (peras set weekly 85 pause) and once usage crosses it, the agent's next tool call is refused with a plain reason, so one long task can't burn the rest of your week. Resume whenever you want, from the terminal or the menu bar. Opt-in: your agents can be told their own usage. The CLI and hooks are free and MIT. The native Mac menu bar app is €4.99 once.
On the analytics side, Peras competes within Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence, GitHub and Menu Bar Apps — topics that collectively have 1.1M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Peras performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Peras?
Peras was hunted by Kristiyan Ivanov. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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