Yes
Knowing that it can't exceed your budget regardless of what it picks makes the 'what tools does it choose' question a lot less stressful
qzira on Hacker News
In the thread “What Claude Code chooses”
Helped: Building a gateway layer to enforce hard budget caps.
Got in the way: Autonomous overnight runs generating large API bills.
… I ended up building a separate gateway layer specifically to enforce budget caps before requests hit the provider — not just alerts, but hard stops. Knowing that it can't exceed your budget regardless of what it picks makes the 'what tools does it choose' question a lot less stressful.