How do I install the Quota Gate skill?

Run npx skillmds@latest add ryanmaclean/quota-gate in your terminal (requires Node.js), paste this page's agent-chat prompt into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-connected agent, or download the SKILL.md file and copy it into your agent's skills directory.

Is Quota Gate safe to use?

This skill has not completed SkillMD's automated safety review yet. SkillMD never runs a skill's scripts for you; review the SKILL.md before installing.

Which AI agents work with Quota Gate?

This skill is tagged as working with Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex. SKILL.md is an open format, so most agents that read a skills directory can load it too.

Is Quota Gate free to use?

Yes. Installing skills from SkillMD is free, and the skill stays under its author's original license.

Who published Quota Gate?

ryanmaclean (@ryanmaclean) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Quota Gate by ryanmaclean — Agent Skill

Name: Quota Gate
Author: ryanmaclean

Quota Gate

Pre-delegation quota check. Run before dispatching Auto-Claude specs or bop cards. Shows all provider headroom, recommends the best provider, warns at >80%, and blocks dispatch suggestions at >90%. Use when about to delegate a task, start a wave, or queue specs. Trigger phrases: "can we dispatch", "quota check", "headroom", "before we delegate", "what has capacity", "which provider", "are we ok to run".

ryanmaclean 6c8cada 2 files · 6.3 KB Updated Sep 17, 2026

File contents

quota-gate — Pre-Delegation Quota Check

Run this before dispatching Auto-Claude specs, bop dispatcher waves, or any multi-agent work session. It reads live quota from bop providers and gives a go/warn/block recommendation.

Usage

nu ~/.claude/skills/quota-gate/gate.nu
nu ~/.claude/skills/quota-gate/gate.nu --warn-at 70   # tighter warning threshold
nu ~/.claude/skills/quota-gate/gate.nu --block-at 85  # tighter block threshold

Or invoke as a skill — I will run it and interpret the output for you.

What it shows

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  QUOTA GATE — pre-delegation check
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  Claude Code   5h  ████████░░  82%  ⚠  reset in 1h 12m
                7d  █████░░░░░  53%  ✓

  Codex CLI     session  ██░░░░░░░░  21%  ✓
                weekly   ███░░░░░░░  34%  ✓

  Gemini CLI    Pro   █████░░░░░  48%  ✓

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  RECOMMENDATION
  ⚠  Claude 5h window at 82% — consider Codex for next wave
  ✓  Codex has 79% headroom — good for 3–5 subtask specs
  ✓  Gemini has 52% headroom — available for parallel specs
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  GO — dispatch with caution (Claude 5h near limit)

Thresholds

Level	Usage	Symbol	Meaning
OK	<70%	✓ green	Full headroom, dispatch freely
WARN	70–89%	⚠ amber	Caution — prefer alternative provider
BLOCK	≥90%	✗ red	Do not dispatch to this provider

Overall verdict:

GO — at least one provider has <70% on primary window
CAUTION — all providers 70–89%; dispatch small batches only
HOLD — all providers ≥90%; wait for reset before dispatching

Integration with dispatch.nu

Add to the top of any dispatch wave:

# Check quota before launching wave
nu ~/.claude/skills/quota-gate/gate.nu
if $env.LAST_EXIT_CODE != 0 {
    print "⚠ quota gate blocked dispatch — check providers"
    exit 1
}

As a pre-delegation reflex

Before saying "dispatch spec 035" or "run the next wave", I will automatically invoke this gate and report headroom. If Claude 5h is >80%, I will recommend routing to Codex or Gemini instead.

---name: quota-gatedescription: Pre-delegation quota check. Run before dispatching Auto-Claude specs or bop cards. Shows all provider headroom, recommends the best provider, warns at >80%, and blocks dispatch suggestions at >90%. Use when about to delegate a task, start a wave, or queue specs. Trigger phrases: "can we dispatch", "quota check", "headroom", "before we delegate", "what has capacity", "which provider", "are we ok to run".---# quota-gate — Pre-Delegation Quota CheckRun this before dispatching Auto-Claude specs, bop dispatcher waves, or anymulti-agent work session. It reads live quota from `bop providers` and givesa go/warn/block recommendation.## Usage```bashnu ~/.claude/skills/quota-gate/gate.nunu ~/.claude/skills/quota-gate/gate.nu --warn-at 70 # tighter warning thresholdnu ~/.claude/skills/quota-gate/gate.nu --block-at 85 # tighter block threshold```Or invoke as a skill — I will run it and interpret the output for you.## What it shows```━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ QUOTA GATE — pre-delegation check━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Claude Code 5h ████████░░ 82% ⚠ reset in 1h 12m 7d █████░░░░░ 53% ✓ Codex CLI session ██░░░░░░░░ 21% ✓ weekly ███░░░░░░░ 34% ✓ Gemini CLI Pro █████░░░░░ 48% ✓━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ RECOMMENDATION ⚠ Claude 5h window at 82% — consider Codex for next wave ✓ Codex has 79% headroom — good for 3–5 subtask specs ✓ Gemini has 52% headroom — available for parallel specs━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GO — dispatch with caution (Claude 5h near limit)```## Thresholds| Level | Usage | Symbol | Meaning ||-------|-------|--------|---------|| OK | <70% | ✓ green | Full headroom, dispatch freely || WARN | 70–89% | ⚠ amber | Caution — prefer alternative provider || BLOCK | ≥90% | ✗ red | Do not dispatch to this provider |Overall verdict:- **GO** — at least one provider has <70% on primary window- **CAUTION** — all providers 70–89%; dispatch small batches only- **HOLD** — all providers ≥90%; wait for reset before dispatching## Integration with dispatch.nuAdd to the top of any dispatch wave:```nushell# Check quota before launching wavenu ~/.claude/skills/quota-gate/gate.nuif $env.LAST_EXIT_CODE != 0 { print "⚠ quota gate blocked dispatch — check providers" exit 1}```## As a pre-delegation reflexBefore saying "dispatch spec 035" or "run the next wave", I will automaticallyinvoke this gate and report headroom. If Claude 5h is >80%, I will recommendrouting to Codex or Gemini instead.

Frequently asked questions