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Keep a reserve for yourself

Lend a subscription to your agents and keep a share for yourself: agents stop at the reserve line, and the rest waits for your own chat and your laptop. Near the end of the week, lift the reserve with one press and the agents spend what the reset would wipe out anyway.

Set a reserve

  1. Open Subscriptions & keys.
  2. On the account's row, open the menu and pick Keep a reserve.
  3. Under Keep for myself, enter a share of the 5-hour limit and of the week, from 0 to 95. A subscription with limits for single models, such as Claude's weekly Fable limit, has a third field for them.
  4. Pick Save reserve.

With 20 in the 5-hour field, agents stop at 80 % of the 5-hour limit. The editor shows that line before you save, and the row then reads Keep 20% of 5h. Enter 0 in every field to turn the reserve off.

What happens at the line

  • Agents on that subscription get Esc, and detachbox removes the login file it put on your Compute for that account.
  • The terminal shows a line such as "Stopped to keep 20 % of your 5-hour limit", and its row reads Stopped to keep your reserve.
  • The account row reads Reserved until the reset time.
  • After the window resets, the account goes back to the launches that run on it. With Continue after the limit resets on, the terminals continue.

A launch with rotation moves to another account instead of stopping. A launch set to ignore the Fable limit runs past the Fable line; the 5-hour and weekly lines still stop it.

Move a held terminal to another subscription

While the account holds its reserve, a notice over each of its terminals says until when, and the row reads Reserve held with the time it comes back. Pick Switch subscription in the notice to move the launch to another account with room. With none, the list says so and offers Connect another subscription.

Lift the reserve until the reset

A few hours before the week resets, the reserve guards a share that will be gone anyway. Pick Lift reserve until 8:00 PM beside Save reserve; the button names the time the subscription's week resets. A reset more than six days away, as on a monthly limit, shows as a date, such as Dec 6, 3:55 PM. Until then:

  • No reserve line stops an agent, and launches with rotation stay on the account.
  • The account goes back to its launches at once, as after a reset. Terminals stopped at the line continue if their launch continues after the limit resets.
  • The row reads Reserve off until 8:00 PM, and the editor says how long is left and that the reserve comes back by itself.
  • Your numbers stay as you saved them. The lift lasts until the limit resets, even when the provider postpones that reset. Then the whole reserve holds again by itself, single-model shares included, from the first reading of the new week.
  • The switch line of a launch with rotation, and the provider's own limit, still count.

To turn the reserve back on before the reset, pick Restore reserve. Saving 0 in every field ends a lift too, and a reserve saved again the same week holds at once.

If detachbox does not know yet when the week resets, the button reads Lift reserve until reset. Pressing it reads the limits again; if they still can't be read, the editor says so.

Lower the reserve for good

Lower the numbers under Keep a reserve and save. The account goes back to its launches at once, and the agents use it again.

How close to the line

Near the line, detachbox reads the limits every minute, so a fast agent can go a few percent past the reserve before it stops. On a launch with rotation, the reserve and the switch line both hold, and the larger of the two counts.

What a reserve needs

An account connected in the dashboard, with its limits read. Activity records each change of a reserve, each time an account reached it or came back after the reset, and each time you lifted or restored it.