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Developer builds custom tool to monitor Claude Code usage and costs

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A developer has created a custom tool to monitor their usage and costs associated with Claude Code. This tool, implemented as a shell script, displays real-time session vitals directly in the terminal footer. It extracts information such as model name, context window usage, token counts, cost, and rate limits from JSON data provided by Claude Code on each render. The script also includes a warning for exceeding 200K tokens, which can trigger higher pricing tiers, and monitors plan-level usage against rate limits. AI

IMPACT Enables users to better track and manage their AI service costs and usage patterns.

RANK_REASON The item describes a custom tool built by a developer to monitor their usage of an existing AI product.

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Developer builds custom tool to monitor Claude Code usage and costs

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  1. dev.to — Claude Code tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Prateek Rai ·

    Building a Vitals Monitor for Claude Code

    <p>A Slack thread about our climbing AI bill, plus word that per-user usage limits were landing soon, sent me to check what I was actually spending on Claude Code. The answer was that I had no idea.</p> <p>The cost only showed up after the fact, in a dashboard I never opened. So …

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