agent-usage

Tracks rate-limit / usage data for AI coding agent CLIs (Claude Code, Codex CLI, Antigravity, GitHub Copilot CLI, ...) over time, tells you when each window next resets, and exposes the history over HTTP and MCP, plus a small dashboard.

Why

Codex exposes account limits through its machine-readable app-server protocol, so that provider reads them without starting a conversation. Providers that only expose the numbers in an interactive /usage screen are driven inside a disposable tmux session. Both paths produce the same queryable history.

One exception: Copilot's /usage screen shows a percentage but never a reset time. GitHub's docs say the included AI-credit allowance always resets at 00:00 UTC on the 1st of the month regardless of subscription date, so that provider computes resetsAt directly instead of parsing it — see src/domain/reset-time.ts's nextUtcMonthStart.

Related MCP server: mcp_server_for_claudes_toolbox

Features

• Periodic sampling of every registered provider, stored as a time series in SQLite (via Prisma) — not just the latest reading.

• Every capture attempt records collector health, a stable failure code, and, when the CLI's version command succeeds, the version that produced it. Authentication failures and stale collectors are visible in both the API and dashboard.

• Resolves each provider's raw "resets in..." text into an absolute timestamp, so you can ask "when does this actually reset" instead of doing the math yourself.

• HTTP API (/api/providers, /api/usage/latest, /api/usage/history, /api/usage/next-resets) and an MCP server exposing the same data as tools, so both scripts and agents can read it.

• A dependency-free static dashboard (plain HTML/CSS/TS, hand-rolled SVG charts) served by the same HTTP server. It defaults to 14 days for trend visibility and can switch to a focused 10-hour view or longer ranges.

• New providers are a config object + a parser function away — see docs/providers.md.

Quickstart

bun install
cp .env.example .env
bun run db:migrate:dev   # creates prisma/migrations + the local SQLite db
bun run build:frontend   # bundles frontend/main.ts -> frontend/main.js

bun run dev               # daemon: sampler loop + HTTP API + dashboard
# or, one-off:
bun run sample -- --provider claude
# or, for an MCP client:
bun run src/cli/index.ts mcp

The dashboard is served at http://127.0.0.1:7979/ by default. HTTP_HOST defaults to 127.0.0.1, so the API is not exposed to remote hosts accidentally. See HTTP_HOST, HTTP_PORT, and SAMPLE_INTERVAL_SECONDS in .env.example.

bun run dev shells out to the real claude/codex/agy/copilot CLIs on your machine. Codex uses app-server; TUI-only providers use tmux.

History queries

GET /api/usage/history accepts provider, scope, window, metric, and unit filters. Bound the time axis with ISO-8601 since/until, or use a relative range such as 10h, 14d, or 4w (range may be anchored by until). Results are always the newest matching observations, returned in chronological order:

/api/usage/history?provider=codex&range=14d&limit=100000&maxPoints=480

maxPoints downsamples each logical series independently while retaining its endpoints and local extrema. This keeps browser and MCP payloads bounded as the database grows without making long-term retention inaccessible. The MCP get_usage_history tool exposes the same filters and downsampling option. Each history point also includes cliVersion, so a behavior change can be correlated with the exact CLI release that generated the observation. cliVersion is null when the CLI cannot report its version.

GET /api/providers reports current collector health: status (healthy, failing, stale, or no_data), the last attempt and success times, consecutive failures, the latest stable errorCode, and cliVersion. The dashboard refreshes this table every minute.

Deployment modes

By default daemon is all-in-one: local SQLite database + HTTP API/dashboard

• sampler, all in one process — this is what bun run dev runs.

It can also split into a central server (owns the database, serves read/write HTTP, no CLI dependencies of its own) and one or more standalone collectors (each just captures and pushes to the server, no database or HTTP server of its own). This is useful when you'd rather isolate the credential-bearing CLI processes from the server — e.g. one lightweight collector per provider, each only needing that one CLI's credentials.

# server: owns the database, accepts pushes, serves the dashboard.
# --no-sample makes it a pure server (no CLI/tmux use at all) for hosts
# with none of the agent CLIs installed; omit it to also sample locally.
HTTP_HOST=0.0.0.0 \
INGEST_TOKEN=some-shared-secret \
bun run src/cli/index.ts daemon --no-sample

# collector: only samples codex, pushes to the server, no local database
INGEST_SERVER_URL=http://server-host:7979 \
INGEST_TOKEN=some-shared-secret \
bun run src/cli/index.ts daemon --provider codex

INGEST_TOKEN is an optional shared-secret bearer token — set it on both sides to require it, or leave it unset for an unauthenticated ingest endpoint (fine on a trusted network; put a real auth layer in front otherwise, which neither the server nor its collectors need to know about).

Remote serving is a separate opt-in: set HTTP_HOST=0.0.0.0 (or a specific interface address) only on a central server that must accept remote collectors. Authentication or a trusted network boundary is still required; changing the bind address does not add access control.

How it works

1. Capture: uses a provider's machine-readable capture when available; otherwise src/capture/tmux.ts drives its usage screen in disposable tmux.

2. Parse (src/providers/*/parse.ts): a small regex-based parser per provider turns that captured text into a provider-neutral UsageSnapshot (see src/domain/types.ts).

3. Store (src/storage/sink.ts): each snapshot goes to a SnapshotSink — either a direct Prisma write (createLocalSink) or a push to a remote server's ingest endpoint (createRemoteSink, in src/daemon/), depending on the deployment mode (see below). Local writes persist a Sample with its Windows via src/storage/repository.ts.

4. Serve: src/server/http.ts (REST) and src/mcp/server.ts (MCP tools) both read from the same repository layer, regardless of which collectors fed it.

See docs/architecture.md for more detail, and docs/providers.md for how to add a new agent CLI.

Development

bun run typecheck   # backend + frontend (two separate tsconfigs; the
                     # frontend one adds DOM lib for browser globals)
bun run lint
bun test

Tests that touch storage/HTTP/MCP spin up their own throwaway SQLite file via prisma db push in beforeAll — no shared or checked-in test database.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.