The 7 defaults quietly burning your money — and the exact keystroke that plugs each one

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Claude Code ships 7 defaults that favor quality over cost — great when you need it, a quiet drain when you don't. This one-page-per-fix playbook hands you all 7 leaks ranked by real dollar impact, each with the exact command to plug it: the right model (/model sonnet), resetting context (/clear + /compact), dialing reasoning (/effort low + ultrathink), a lean CLAUDE.md, cutting dead MCP servers (/mcp), keeping your cache stable, and seeing spend (/usage). Plus the nuance the tutorials get wrong, the live pricing math (Opus $25 vs Sonnet $15 vs Haiku $5 per 1M output tokens), and the free ccusage setup that x-rays where your money actually went. Every command verified against the official docs.

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