Disclaimer: English isn’t my first language, so I used Claude (^^) to help fix the grammar. Like many of you, I’ve been frustrated by Claude’s 5-hour usage windows. So I started thinking about a practical workaround. The idea is simple: automate a minimal API call every 5 hours to keep your session “warm.” In the worst case, where you’re right at the start of a window — you burn the cheapest possible prompt and move on. In the best case, you’re 4 hours in and can cram your remaining time with actual work. I wrote a short Python script that does exactly this using the cheapest available model and the most minimal prompt I could think of: import subprocess prompt = “Hi, reply with hi” model = “claude-haiku-4-5-20251001” result = subprocess.run( [“claude”, “–print”, “–verbose”, “–dangerously-skip-permissions”, “–model”, model, prompt], capture_output=True, text=True ) print(result.stdout) From there, I used launchd on Mac to automate the script, either on a 5-hour interval or triggered on login. You could also hook this up to something like Openclaw depending on your setup. Not a perfect solution, but it gets the job done. submitted by /u/Shon12bar
Originally posted by u/Shon12bar on r/ClaudeCode
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