This is not a hack around the usage limit system. It's just catching the tool wasting tokens in an unexpected way, and preventing it.

As one commenter put it:

> This might actually explain why a bunch of people are having insane usage-limit issues while many other people are having no problems at all.

This seems like potentially valuable information.

How possible is it to make Claude Code use ripgrep instead (which obeys all .gitignore rules by default)?

alias grep=rg ? Given that Claude Code is intelligent enough to use --help for cases where rg's flags aren't compatible with grep, it might just work well enough