Peras
Product Hunt Kristiyan Ivanov
Peras adds a weekly usage cap to Claude Code and Codex. Hit it, and the next tool call gets blocked so one task doesn’t eat the week.
Based on reporting by Product Hunt, Kristiyan Ivanov — read the original for the full story.
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Peras is trying to put a leash on agent sprawl. The tool lets people set a weekly limit from the command line — the example shown is `peras set weekly 85 pause` — and once that usage crosses the line, the agent’s next tool call is refused with a plain explanation.
The pitch is simple: stop one runaway job from consuming the whole week. If the limit gets hit, the agent pauses instead of quietly chewing through more work. And when the user is ready, Peras can be resumed from either the terminal or the Mac menu bar.
There’s another wrinkle here that matters more than the UI. Peras is opt-in, which means agents can be told about their own usage. That turns the product from a silent governor into something closer to an explicit contract between the user and the model.
The distribution model is split cleanly. The CLI and hooks are free and MIT licensed. The native Mac menu bar app costs €4.99 once. For a launch aimed at developers using Claude Code and Codex, that’s a pretty tidy setup: open where it counts, paid where the convenience lives.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the right kind of boring software: a brake, not a sermon. Agent tools keep getting sold like they’re endless interns; Peras is a reminder that the bill still shows up, just later and with more regret. The open parts being MIT, while the Mac nicety is paid, feels refreshingly grown-up.
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