claude -p alternative for CI/CD: a 50-line fix for June 15 Pricing Split

This is a follow-up to my previous post where I built poor-claude to keep my AI family alive. That solution uses MCP Channels and a persistent session daemon — powerful, but a lot of machinery. After publishing, I realised: most people using claude -p in CI/CD pipelines don't need any of that. The use case You have a script. It calls claude -p "review this PR diff" or claude -p "generate release notes". It runs in GitHub Actions. It runs on a cron job. It doesn't need conversation...