Thank you! For me, I wish it was just a simple command that outputs how much I have used out of my plan already.
Also I feel it’s a bummer that I need python when CC is a node.js tool.
Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs
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#12How it does it monitor usage?
Check directory ~/.claude/projects/*/*.jsonl ;) hah very interesting topic. I have a plan to write blog post about it (all conversations history with metadata inside json lines files) What do you think about this idea? Interesting?
Is there anyway to ensure these logs are output in a current project folder? Would like to store a copy in git for reference
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#13Claude is cool, they focus on cool and useful things.
But man do I just want a way to quickly glance at my API credits and to just occasionally chat with a model from those credits without librechat of openwebui. Or set some limits, or see some usage metrics.
And please please use "forever auth" with passkeys or something, what is up with that auth email that just takes ages for a quick glance?! It always takes me 3 attempts to find what address I used at sign-up...
Oh and make it clearer why you have that API/credits system and a subscription, why is it so difficult to understand when you start using Claude that it's 2 different unrelated worlds?? First time I started my subscription I just couldn't figure out where the API section was, until I realized it just wasn't there.
I feel like I'm "holding it wrong", but please make it easier to hold it right then.
Re: Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs
#14How it does it monitor usage?
I keep the credits page open and refresh it from time to time, because I honestly only care about money, not about tokens whatever these are.
Re: Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs
#15For cursor users, a similar extension to monitor usage:
Re: Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs
#16Claude is cool, they focus on cool and useful things. But man do I just want a way to quickly glance at my API credits and to just occasionally chat with a model from those credits without librechat of openwebui. Or set some limits, or see some usage metrics. And please please use "forever auth" with passkeys or something, what is up with that auth email that just takes ages for a quick glance?! It always takes me 3…
>And please please use "forever auth" with passkeys or something, what is up with that auth email that just takes ages for a quick glance?! It always takes me 3 attempts to find what address I used at sign-up...
As a person with the simple but brilliant technology of a freaking password manager, I LOATHE email to login/no-password websites. They are dreadful, we've somehow managed to come up with something worse in UX rather than move forward.
If you're working on a product that does this, or wants to do this, please please PLEASE reconsider, it's such a PITA for technical users and normies alike.
Re: Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs
#17Claude is cool, they focus on cool and useful things. But man do I just want a way to quickly glance at my API credits and to just occasionally chat with a model from those credits without librechat of openwebui. Or set some limits, or see some usage metrics. And please please use "forever auth" with passkeys or something, what is up with that auth email that just takes ages for a quick glance?! It always takes me 3…
>And please please use "forever auth" with passkeys or something, what is up with that auth email that just takes ages for a quick glance?! It always takes me 3 attempts to find what address I used at sign-up... As a person with the simple but brilliant technology of a freaking password manager, I LOATHE email to login/no-password websites. They are dreadful, we've somehow managed to come up with something worse in U…
Yeah, it's the reason I eventually tuned out of Slack too (obviously I don't use it day to day). I used it for some things, some community stuff, every now and then.
So when I open it up on a new machine or after months, you have to go through that magic link bs multiple times! For all your accounts/channels! I did that 2 or 3 times and then I just stopped using it.
I don't even remember what I signed up for over the years, I know some of it was nice (like an LoRa IOT channel, an "AWS professionals" channel, I set something up for the LoRaWan network in the previous city I lived in... All just tuned out because of the login bs.
Re: Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs
#18Claude is cool, they focus on cool and useful things. But man do I just want a way to quickly glance at my API credits and to just occasionally chat with a model from those credits without librechat of openwebui. Or set some limits, or see some usage metrics. And please please use "forever auth" with passkeys or something, what is up with that auth email that just takes ages for a quick glance?! It always takes me 3…
>And please please use "forever auth" with passkeys or something, what is up with that auth email that just takes ages for a quick glance?! It always takes me 3 attempts to find what address I used at sign-up... As a person with the simple but brilliant technology of a freaking password manager, I LOATHE email to login/no-password websites. They are dreadful, we've somehow managed to come up with something worse in U…
Another reason to ditch email-to-login: It decreases active user count because login is such a chore. I only use those websites if I absolutely have to and there are no alternatives.
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#19How it does it monitor usage?
Check directory ~/.claude/projects/*/*.jsonl ;) hah very interesting topic. I have a plan to write blog post about it (all conversations history with metadata inside json lines files) What do you think about this idea? Interesting?
It's definitely interesting. Probably, one could also see how much of the context is unnecessary to optimise usage. I wonder if one could also detect whether cache was used.
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#20Anyone else have a bunch of fun with Claude Code's Github integration... until you realized it spends from your API wallet balance?
Oops, when I saw the /install-github-app command, I assumed that since I'm on a max plan and Claude Code in my terminal is free, then the Github integration would be free.
So I hooked it up to my repo and tagged @claude in everything. It was a lot of fun tagging it in backburner issues and seeing it solve issues I couldn't be bothered to do for years. Or just seeing what it would come up with on really low effort poorly explained issues.
But not worth spending 50+ cents every time.