usage

A command for reading usage statistics from a local SQLite session database. It summarizes text, image, video, audio, token, cost-estimate, and context-length information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking current or specific-session usage, viewing token and context details, estimating costs, and exporting the results as JSON.
Why use it?
It lets you inspect local session consumption without manually opening the database or contacting the provider account service.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/moore-developers/grok-cli/usage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Moore-developers/grok-cli
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 461 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.00461
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00230
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00046

Measured 2d ago against content hash 308ef28fd83c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

usage scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

docs/commands/usage.md · 78 lines

What it actually says

grok-cli usage

Purpose

Inspect local session usage. The command reads the SQLite session store and summarizes text, image, video, and audio usage, along with token, cost estimate, and context-length information.

Default database:

~/.grok-cli/session.db

Common Usage

grok-cli usage

Only read local stats and skip any provider account lookup:

grok-cli usage --local-only

Note: usage now defaults to local-only behavior. --local-only exists for compatibility and is not needed day to day.

Script or skill usage:

grok-cli usage --json

Inspect a specific session:

grok-cli usage --session-id sess_01_example

Parameters

  • --json: use the standard JSON envelope.
  • --auth-file <PATH>: override the OAuth state file path.
  • --session-db <PATH>: override the SQLite session database path.
  • --session-id <ID>: inspect a specific session instead of the active session.
  • --timeout <SECONDS>: hidden compatibility parameter; the command no longer queries account limits.
  • --local-only: compatibility parameter; the command already shows local stats only.

Behavior

  • Successful local statistics still count as a successful command.
  • Text commands report token and cost estimates.
  • Image, video, and audio commands report request count, model, and rate-limit snapshots; when no token data exists, values show as 0 or n/a.
  • Token values are abbreviated with K, M, or B, such as 124.8K or 2.8M.
  • The command does not query, display, or return account limits.

Human-Readable Output

Default output includes:

  • Session Usage
  • Usage Breakdown
  • Session metadata

JSON Fields

data contains:

  • provider
  • session
  • local_usage
  • breakdown
  • recent_rate_limits
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 78 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 308ef28fd83c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

usage is a command published in the GitHub repository Moore-developers/grok-cli (52 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 461 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.