auto-usage

auto-usage is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Jerry0022/dotclaude. It costs 64 tokens per session (1,786 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that retrieves current token-usage information for a completion card. Tokens are the text units used by an AI model while processing a conversation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to refresh usage data, check token consumption, and provide the usage value shown in a completion card.
Why use it?
It helps show how much of the available usage has been consumed, using a local usage file first and other sources when needed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the devops plugin — 23 skills, 12 agents, 5 hooks, 3 MCP servers shipped together

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 skills/jerry0022/dotclaude/auto-usage
Any agent
npx skills add Jerry0022/dotclaude --skill auto-usage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jerry0022/dotclaude

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install devops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 skills, 12 agents, 5 hooks, 3 MCP servers.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for auto-usage

README.md
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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,786 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 $0.00064 $0.01786
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00893
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00357
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00179

Measured 3d ago against content hash 86bf819a7ccf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

auto-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 3d 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.

plugins/devops/skills/auto-usage/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Refresh Usage Data

Fetch live token usage for the completion card's battery line.

Step 0 — Load Extensions

Check for optional overrides. Use Glob to verify each path exists before reading. Do NOT call Read on files that may not exist — skip missing files silently (no output).

  1. Global: ~/.claude/skills/auto-usage/SKILL.md + reference.md
  2. Project: {project}/.claude/skills/auto-usage/SKILL.md + reference.md
  3. Merge: project > global > plugin defaults

Step 1 — Fetch data

1·0. Native source first (no scrape)

~/.claude/usage-live.json is kept minute-fresh by the native statusLine writer (statusline-usage.js, registered by ss.statusline.ensure) — it maps Claude Code's rate_limits JSON onto the usage schema with no browser and no extra Claude turn. If the file's timestamp is recent (≤ a couple of minutes), just read it — you are done; skip the Edge scrape entirely. Only when it is stale/absent (pre-first-API response, an unsupported login, weeklySonnet needed, or a host without the statusLine writer) fall through to the Edge scraper below. The dotclaude-completion MCP server applies this same warm-read-first logic automatically in get_usage / render_completion_card.

Automatic path is zero-interaction. The MCP fallback always runs the scraper with --no-login, so the completion card never opens a login window — a logged-out profile just serves statusLine/cached data. A one-time login is offered only when you run this skill manually (the command in 1a omits --no-login). The card itself renders only the 5h + weekly numbers, which the native statusLine source already provides token-free; weeklySonnet is a manual-summary extra, not a card field.

1·1. Edge CDP fetcher (fallback)

The script spawns a dedicated, isolated Edge instance with its own user-data-dir under ~/.claude/edge-usage-profile. It is completely independent from the user's main Edge — separate cookies, separate processes, no tabs touched. It fetches usage via a cookie-authed in-page call to the internal API (GET /api/organizations/{id}/usage + /rate_limits) — the settings page became an SPA overlay (2026-05) that never renders headless, so DOM parsing is only a single-grab last resort. Runs headless; the hidden instance is reused across runs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 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.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 131 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 86bf819a7ccf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

auto-usage is a skill published in the GitHub repository Jerry0022/dotclaude (4 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,786 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-08-31.

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