[hombre_fatal]

Anyone else have a bunch of fun with Claude Code's Github integration... until you realized it spends from your API wallet balance?

Oops, when I saw the /install-github-app command, I assumed that since I'm on a max plan and Claude Code in my terminal is free, then the Github integration would be free.

So I hooked it up to my repo and tagged @claude in everything. It was a lot of fun tagging it in backburner issues and seeing it solve issues I couldn't be bothered to do for years. Or just seeing what it would come up with on really low effort poorly explained issues.

But not worth spending 50+ cents every time.

[sokoloff]

On one hand, it violated the principle of least surprise.

On another hand, you solved several years-old issues for under $50…which seems like a big win.

[shmoogy]

You can use your max plan ( https://github.com/grll/claude-code-action )

Currently in gray area but allowed as per anthropic comment on it - https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code-action/issues/4#is...

[hombre_fatal]

Oh, thanks! You didn't go digging that up just for me, did you?

I'll try it out right now.

[shmoogy]

I had it in my Karakeep bookmarks of things to try in the coming weeks.

[csomar]

> Anyone else have a bunch of fun with Claude Code's Github integration... until you realized it spends from your API wallet balance?

Isn't Claude and Anthropic API two separate platforms? How does it spend from your other account?

[hombre_fatal]

No.

https://console.anthropic.com/settings/billing

[csomar]

What's that link supposed to show? It shows my anthropic account and billing. My claude account and billing (with different payment details) is at https://claude.ai/settings/billing

[hombre_fatal]

I see what you mean. Anthropic's UI and system organization are always very confusing.

Your link and my link are just two views into the same underlying account (unless you registered separate accounts of course). At your link, you can manage your Claude subscription. At my link, you can manage API keys and API credits.

But they aren't siloed like you (or I) think.

I got Claude Code when it launched and it always charged API credits until it was included in the $100 max subscription (and then in the cheap base subscription). It moves fast and it's not well communicated.

[mwigdahl]

Addressing those issues wasn't worth $0.50 apiece? That almost certainly translates into less than a _minute_ of fully loaded engineering cost from a human.

[hombre_fatal]

A lot of it was from the default behavior of Claude re-reviewing a PR on every commit.

It also just psychologically just saps the fun out of something when there's a fee attached per invocation. And the UX is that I buy $50 of API credits, time passes, and then it breaks because I have to refill it again.

If it were literally a "fix issue for 50 cents" button that charges you 50 cents and that's that, then it would be different. But instead your API credits drain and you can't evaluate if it was worth it.