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".
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- 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 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
```bash
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:
```nushell
# 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.
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