Show HN: macOS menu bar gauges for your Claude Code quota

Posted by grzracz 7 hours ago

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Comment by tyleo 4 hours ago

I recommend people just update their Claude Code status line so that changes like this are in Claude Code itself.

https://www.tyleo.com/blog/love-letter-to-the-claude-code-do...

Comment by oefrha 3 hours ago

My status line shows 5h and 7d quota usage among other things like model, context usage, git branch, etc. Unfortunately the whole status line disappears half of the time from CC’s broken ass UI.

Comment by grzracz 4 hours ago

Personally I have multiple instances of Claude on my PC dedicated to different areas (split between my private subscription and my work one) and it is useful to see both at a glance. And I don't have to keep the terminal open to see how much time is left for quota to be reset. But for single-Claude users this is indeed a valid solution!

Comment by tyleo 4 hours ago

I also use multiple. Your statusline is per Claude session so it can show separate quotas/file info/context use/etc.

It’s just a script you write to modify the last line of the Claude Code program.

Comment by max8539 56 minutes ago

Created the same tool some time ago for Codex and Claude code: showing percents for both in the menu bar and detailed stats when you click on it. Using it literally every day, feel free to try: https://github.com/max2697/RateLimited Feedback greatly appreciated!

Comment by rippeltippel 3 hours ago

I use CodexBar, which supports more providers: https://github.com/steipete/codexbar

Comment by grzracz 3 hours ago

Wasn't aware this exists, good one!

Comment by cpursley 2 hours ago

Something has gone haywire with that one recently and it constantly freezes and crashes.

Comment by justAnotherHero 1 hour ago

I've forked it so that I can see the old cursor 500 requests plan and haven't merged any of their changes after that for the last few months.

Seems to me the way to go with these apps that keep pushing daily updates.

Comment by BowBun 3 hours ago

I use codeburn, has both terminal and menu bar versions. Works quite well - https://github.com/getagentseal/codeburn

Comment by artdigital 3 hours ago

> curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grzegorz-raczek-unit8/clau... | bash

Can we stop with this way of installing things? This is already on brew and it’s a menu bar app. Just let me download it instead of executing some arbitrary bash script

When did this trend start?

Comment by grzracz 3 hours ago

While I agree it's not super safe, even CC is installed this way: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/quickstart

Comment by VladVladikoff 1 hour ago

Funny you should mention homebrew in this complaint.

Comment by fosron 2 hours ago

CodexBar seems to do that good enough (and supports Codex), plus https://github.com/daniel3303/ClaudeCodeStatusLine this also adds data straight into CC

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Comment by navels 1 hour ago

lol how many of these things are there. I've been using https://github.com/f-is-h/usage4claude which includes Codex usage (I use Claude and Codex).

Comment by tskulbru 3 hours ago

Im using https://github.com/mryll/claudebar myself on my Linux desktop setup using Hyprland and Waybar. Will try this one out on my laptop though!

Comment by smy-hn 3 hours ago

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Comment by mahoro 3 hours ago

Unexpected: reading the code was entertaining (no sarcasm): pixel fonts, png encoder.

Comment by tuo-lei 2 hours ago

how does this pull the quota data? reading from the CC process output or is there an actual API for it?

Comment by bicepjai 1 hour ago

Codexbar app and ccstatusline

Comment by giancarlostoro 5 hours ago

Honestly drives me crazy that CC doesnt show this on the bottom status bar a simple percentage “Weekly Quota Left: 99%” would be useful. Also noticed and idk if it was me or some mishap, a lot of my Claude sessions were not autocompacting, maybe its /loops fault not sure, but it made sense why I finally reached my weekly limit so insanely quickly recently.

Comment by kaliara 4 hours ago

I wanted the same thing and recently saw this blog post on how to customize the bottom status bar: https://www.aimhuge.com/blog/claude-code-status-line.

I now show my current context window, five-hour quota, weekly quota, current branch and current PR.

It's quite handy!

Comment by Doublon 2 hours ago

Their documentation explains how to customize CC statusline and display the quotas: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/statusline#rate-limit-usage

Comment by devsda 5 hours ago

From their perspective, they don't want

1. Standard tier users increasing their usage just to minimize "wasted" token credits.

2. Higher tier users with extra usage enabled to use and pay for those extra tokens instead of planning to stay within limits.

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Comment by giancarlostoro 5 hours ago

I just want to know if my next prompt is about to eat shit at the last token. The number of times it like half works on something and falls apart halfway through.

Comment by xienze 4 hours ago

You likely still wouldn't be able to figure that out even if you had a percent usage view available. Will your request take 1K tokens or 10K? Who knows! That's the magic of non-deterministic black boxes.

Comment by grzracz 5 hours ago

Doesn't it autocompact only if it is about to run out of context? On these newer models the context is 1M tokens so it's quite difficult to reach. I run compacts manually when I stop in a good place and tokens are over 300k

Comment by giancarlostoro 5 hours ago

1m is too high, they used to autocompact a little too soon, maybe I tweaked defaults, it was kind of annoying, 200k tokens is too soon for me, I feel like the sweet spot is around 400k tokens.

Funnily enough Groks API charges less when you are below 400k tokens.

Half a million can get you reasonably far with enough of your codebase within the models context window.

I lowkey blame the 1m context window as the start of Anthropics worse woes earlier this year.

Comment by conception 4 hours ago

You can change your compaction token limit to 400k if you want.

CLAUDE_AUTOCOMPACT_PCT_OVERRIDE

And

CLAUDE_CODE_AUTO_COMPACT_WINDOW

Comment by ab-dm 4 hours ago

The Claude app has a usage indicator when you switch to code mode. I’ve been using this more and more now that their sandbox functionality has Improved.

Comment by CPLX 5 hours ago

Casinos don't have clocks in them.

Comment by sturges 4 hours ago

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Comment by cute_boi 2 hours ago

What is benefit of this over https://github.com/steipete/codexbar?

Comment by grzracz 2 hours ago

It's literally a single file that only supports multiple Claude instances :) so I guess simplicity

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