claude-usage-panel: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

claude-usage-panel CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code, Codex from fschmutz/claude-usage-panel. It costs 9,116 tokens per session, scanned D, original, MIT.

A project instruction file for four clients that display Claude Code usage limits from Anthropic’s official usage endpoint.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working on the GNOME extension, macOS menu-bar app, Node status line, or MCP server, including their tests and formatting checks.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents the project’s scope, setup expectations, and required test commands when changing the repository.

Instructions file for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: UserPromptSubmit hook event, but also reads $CODEX_HOME. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions .claude-plugin; mentions CLAUDE.md.

This is fschmutz/claude-usage-panel's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on claude-usage-panel itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything claude-usage-panel configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to fschmutz/claude-usage-panel. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fschmutz/claude-usage-panel/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fschmutz/claude-usage-panel

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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When invoked 9,116 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan D 3 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.09116 $0.09116
Opus 5.5 $0.03646 $0.03646
Sonnet 5.5 $0.01823 $0.01823
Haiku 4.5 $0.00912 $0.00912

Measured 4d ago against content hash 6fa3a215fcff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

claude-usage-panel CLAUDE.md scanned grade D with 3 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 4d 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

# curl -fsSL https://fschmutz.github.io/claude-usage-panel/install | bash [-s -- target…])

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

./install.sh statusline # status line → merges into ~/.claude/settings.json

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

# curl -fsSL https://fschmutz.github.io/claude-usage-panel/install | bash [-s -- target…])
CLAUDE.md · 528 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 528 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

What this is

Four native clients that surface Claude Code plan-usage limits from the official Anthropic usage endpoint: a GNOME Shell extension, a macOS SwiftUI menu-bar app, a Node status line for under the Claude Code prompt, and an MCP server (mcp/server.js) exposing a get_usage tool to Claude Code / Cursor (installable as a Claude Code plugin from .claude-plugin/marketplace.json + plugin/, or via npx -y github:fschmutz/claude-usage-panel - package.json has a bin entry). All read a locally-stored OAuth token read-only and render the same limits[] data. An optional Cursor team-spend section is available in the two desktop clients. linux/usage-bar.mjs is a one-line printer for waybar/tmux/polybar (no install target), and the macOS app also ships as a Homebrew cask (Casks/claude-usage-panel.rb is the unpinned template; release.yml pins and publishes it via scripts/make-cask.sh / publish-cask.sh).

Commands

# JS unit tests (GNOME lib + status line) - the primary test gate
npm test                          # node --test tests/*.test.js
node --test tests/pure.test.js    # single file
node --test --test-name-pattern="sparkline" tests/pure.test.js  # single test

# Swift core unit tests (runs on Linux CI too - no macOS needed)
cd macos && swift test

# Lint / format everything (same set runs in CI on every push, as the `lint` job)
pre-commit run --all-files
pre-commit run eslint --all-files   # single hook
pre-commit run zizmor --all-files   # workflow security audit (actionlint = validity)
scripts/knip.sh                     # unused files/exports/deps (pinned knip, knip.jsonc); also a pre-commit hook

# Dependency freshness + advisories (network; the CI `deps` job, weekly too)
node scripts/check-deps.mjs            # both
node scripts/check-deps.mjs freshness  # every pin vs upstream; exceptions in .github/dependency-holds
node scripts/check-deps.mjs audit      # OSV for direct pins + npm audit of every .github/<tool> tree

# Install - one unified entrypoint for all clients (also reachable with
# curl -fsSL https://fschmutz.github.io/claude-usage-panel/install | bash [-s -- target…])
./install.sh                 # auto-detect OS → install the sensible set
./install.sh gnome           # GNOME extension only → then log out/in (Wayland)
./install.sh statusline      # status line → merges into ~/.claude/settings.json
./install.sh mcp             # MCP server → claude mcp add + ~/.cursor/mcp.json
./install.sh cli             # claudectl: `account` (named logins) + `session` (snapshot/reopen as tabs) + `codex` (Codex logins) + 30-min autosave
./install.sh macos           # build macos/ClaudeUsagePanel.app
./install.sh autoupdate      # schedule the daily update check (systemd timer / launchd / cron)
./install.sh sessionping 05:30 10:35 --days=mon-fri  # scheduled claude pings that open the 5h session window (opt-in)
./install.sh cost            # pinned ccusage (.github/ccusage, Dependabot) + cost line on (opt-in)
./install.sh waiting         # Claude Code hooks for "Waiting on you" + the panel section on (opt-in: node per tool call)
./install.sh pause           # Claude Code hooks for `claudectl session pause|resume` (opt-in: asyncRewake waiter + node per tool call)
./install.sh update [target...]        # reinstall installed targets (upgrade); --pull to git pull first
./install.sh --uninstall [target...]   # reverse it (default: all installed)   |   --list (detected + installed)   |   -h
./install.sh --dry-run [target...]     # print actions without touching anything

# Screenshots are GENERATED - after any UI-visible contract change:
node scripts/screenshots/render.mjs          # rewrites docs/screenshot.svg + og.svg
node scripts/screenshots/render.mjs --check  # what CI runs; exits 1 on drift

# GNOME i18n: after changing any _() string in the extension (needs gettext)
scripts/update-po.sh          # regenerate po/*.pot, merge into every .po
scripts/update-po.sh --check  # the i18n-catalogs hook / CI

# Release: only on a ci-gate-green commit, batched, on demand (PUBLISHING.md)
scripts/release.sh --dry-run   # the version the commits imply, the guards
scripts/release.sh             # bump, commit, push, wait for ci-gate, then tag

# Daily auto-update worker (what the timer runs) - safe to run by hand
./scripts/auto-update.sh --status    # installed vs newest released tag, last check
./scripts/auto-update.sh --check     # check only; exit 10 = update available

# Session-ping worker (what the sessionping schedule runs) - safe to run by hand
./scripts/session-ping.sh --status   # configured times/days, last ping, log path
./scripts/session-ping.sh --force    # ping now, whatever the day is

Read the full file on GitHub · 528 lines

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.

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  9. 29d ago Changed · +83 lines · +1,542 tokens per session db1200390336
  10. 1mo ago First seen · 358 lines · 5,810 tokens per session scan D db5b39b5323a

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claude-usage-panel CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository fschmutz/claude-usage-panel (7 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9,116 tokens to every session, about $0.0365 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it D with 3 findings (downloads and executes remote code, reads agent configuration directories, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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