Just spent $50 in Anthropic API credits using A0 for 2 hours of building...

That's half of my monthly Claude Max subscription I use for Claude Code.

I am very satisfied with the results–built a helpful image generation content agent and Telegram bot interface for it–but I am appalled by how much it cost.

Yes, I am spoiled by Claude Code.

So I have 2 questions here on this topic:

Has anyone found a way to use Claude Code (in particular: your subscription to it) within A0?

I have read of people "hacking" CC to use any model within it; this sounds like it would be somewhere in the same realm?

Now that I'm done "building", I'm switching over A0's default model to Venice's google-gemma-3-27b-it so it'll just be using DIEM to run the recurring tasks...

but damn, that's also horribly inconvenient to have to change the model like that all the time.

Which leads to a second question:

2. Any plans for some kind of "model profiles" in the A0 interface so it's quicker to switch in & out of "building" and "automation" modes?

Some kind of dropdown of frequently used models would also be helpful to speed things up.

(BONUS QUESTION: Maybe there's a way to use A0 more efficiently to bring my Anthropic API calls down? Thanks for any tips)

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