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Guides tagged tokens

2 PrepMint guides tagged tokens — written from using the tools and checked against the vendor's own documentation.

  • How it works · 11 min read

    Why the model can't count the letters in a word

    Strawberry has two r's, your 100-word answer runs to 137, and the limerick does not rhyme. Those are not three mistakes. Text becomes tokens before the model sees it, and everything below the token — letters, characters, sounds — was discarded at the door.

  • Limits and plans · 9 min read

    What actually uses up your Claude usage limits

    Anthropic publishes the plan tiers; it does not publish what a limit is spent on. The meter runs on tokens rather than messages, a long chat re-sends itself every turn, and attachments, project knowledge, tool results and thinking all land in the same budget. Mechanism first, numbers last.