Usage Buddies — Productivity skill for Claude Code
Real-time Claude usage limits, session pace, weekly quotas and service health in your KDE panel, tray or Windows desktop.
How to install Usage Buddies
This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no
exact command to give. Open MrSchrodingers/usage-buddies and copy the folder into
~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.
What Usage Buddies does
Real-time Claude usage limits, session pace, weekly quotas and service health in your KDE panel, tray or Windows desktop.
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README
Usage Buddies
KDE Plasmoid · Cross-Platform Tauri Tray · Windows Widget
**Real-time Claude AI usage limits, service health, intelligence score, and spending tracker directly in your taskbar.**
[](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) [](https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/) [](https://v2.tauri.app) [](https://www.microsoft.com/windows) [](https://python.org) [](https://claude.ai)
Three Interfaces, One Collector
| KDE Plasmoid | Tauri Tray App | Windows Widget | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platform | KDE Plasma 6 (Fedora, Kubuntu, Arch) | macOS, Ubuntu GNOME, Fedora, other non-KDE Linux | Windows 10 22H2 / Windows 11 |
| Interface | Native QML panel widget | System tray popup (frameless) | Tray icon + frameless popup docked bottom-right |
| Stack | QML + Kirigami | Rust + Vite + vanilla JS | Tauri v2 (Rust + Vite + vanilla JS) |
| Install | ./install.sh |
./install.sh |
Build + install (see below) |
| Trigger | Click panel widget | Click tray icon or Super+Shift+C |
Click tray icon |
| Data source | ~/.claude/widget-data.json |
~/.claude/widget-data.json |
~/.claude/widget-data.json |
All three read the same file written by the shared Python collector at `scripts/usage-buddies-collector.py`.
**Windows Widget** (`win-widget/`) is a fresh, Windows-first build in Tauri v2 — not a port of the Linux UI. It docks a frameless popup at the bottom-right corner
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