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Claudecode Cost Usage Panel — Development skill for Claude Code

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Live cost/usage panel + auto-split Ghostty launcher for Claude Code CLI sessions.

How to install Claudecode Cost Usage Panel

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open andrewbakercloudscale/claudecode-cost-usage-panel and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Claudecode Cost Usage Panel does

Live cost/usage panel + auto-split Ghostty launcher for Claude Code CLI sessions.

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README

Claude Code Cost & Usage Panel

Live, always-visible cost and token tracking for **[Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)**, running in a right-hand [Ghostty](https://ghostty.org/) split next to your terminal session — so you can watch what a coding agent is actually costing you, turn by turn, instead of finding out at the end of the month.

This came out of a simple problem: AI coding agents burn tokens and money per turn, per session, per day — and none of that is visible while you're working. You only find out later, from a dashboard or an invoice, by which point the expensive session is long over and you've learned nothing you can act on. This repo is the fix: a live panel that sits next to your terminal and updates every few seconds.

The same panel for OpenCode lives in **[opencode-cost-usage-panel](https://github.com/andrewbakercloudscale/opencode-cost-usage-panel)** — the two were one repo until they were split apart, which is why the design notes here and there cross-reference each other.

Full write-up and motivation: **[AI coding costs are guesswork without this: instrumenting OpenCode and Claude Code](https://andrewbaker.ninja/2026/08/22/ai-coding-costs-are-guesswork-without-this-instrumenting-opencode-and-claude-code/)**

What you get

`claude-panel-setup.sh` installs a live panel for Claude Code, built on top of [`ccusage`](https://github.com/ryoppippi/ccusage):

Per-turn breakdown of the current session — turn number, model, context size, context growth (Δ) since the last turn, cache hit %, and estimated cost per turn, read straight out of the session transcript and priced against Anthropic's published per-model rates (including cache read/write multipliers).
Live status line — current session value, today's value, active-block burn rate, 7-day average session cost, 30-day value, and the current project folder. ("Value" because these are priced at pay-as-you-go API rates regardless of what plan you're actually on — see note bel