Clawdmeter turns your Claude Code usage stats into a tiny desktop dashboard

Silicon Valley’s tokenmaxxing epoch present has its ain hardware. A caller unfastened root task brings your Claude Code utilization stats into a tiny desktop dashboard, allowing AI powerfulness users to support an oculus connected their usage.

Sure, you tin way Claude Code usage straight successful the terminal utilizing commands oregon different external tools and apps, but that’s not arsenic amusive arsenic seeing a pixel-art mentation of the Clawd sprite creation connected a surface earlier showing at-a-glance token usage info, is it?

The “Clawdmeter,” arsenic the instrumentality is called, is some a amusive broadside task for AI powerfulness users and a timely denotation of however thoroughly Anthropic’s Claude has infiltrated the developer assemblage and the increasing involvement successful tokenmaxxing. This caller “productivity” inclination sees bundle engineers astatine assorted tech companies maximizing the fig of AI tokens consumed astatine enactment arsenic a measurement of however overmuch they’ve embraced AI.

As 1 Reddit idiosyncratic joked erstwhile seeing the project for the archetypal time: “At this point, Anthropic should conscionable message these to america for free.”

Another suggested adding a fastener to summation capableness oregon apical up much tokens utilizing your paper connected file. (Ha, that could beryllium dangerous!)

The thought for the task comes from Reykjavik, Iceland-based bundle developer Hermann Haraldsson, who says helium had ever wanted to play astir with embedded devices, but ne'er earlier had the time.

“I’m not an embedded developer oregon thing similar that,” Haraldsson told TechCrunch successful a call. But Claude was capable to locomotion him done the task successful conscionable a fewer days, helium said. “It’s truly democratized entree to programming, truthful that anyone tin present bash what developers utilized to do. I deliberation that’s truly positive, actually.”

Most of the clip helium spent gathering the instrumentality was focused connected design, making definite to get the font, colors, and small animations conscionable right.

To physique your ain dashboard, you tin usage a tiny lithium-ion battery-powered display similar the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-2.16, which pairs with your laptop implicit Bluetooth. When the instrumentality is turned on, the splash surface plays pixel-art Clawd animations that get busier arsenic your usage complaint climbs. You tin besides propulsion the mediate fastener to rhythm done antithetic types of animations if you choose.

“I similar it erstwhile I’m working, and I spot it going brainsick — it’s similar a small dopamine loop,” notes Haraldsson.

The animation remains connected the surface until you property the mediate button, which past displays your league and play Claude utilization information successful elemental charts.

You tin property this fastener again to rhythm to the Bluetooth screen, which displays the transportation presumption and offers a reset feature. From there, you tin pat the surface to instrumentality to the archetypal splash surface animation.

Image Credits:Hermann Haraldsson

Meanwhile, 2 different broadside buttons nonstop Space and Shift+Tab implicit Bluetooth for Claude Code’s dependable mode and mode-toggle shortcuts. The second lets you determination betwixt the default Normal mode, “Accept Edits” mode, Plan Mode, and Auto Mode.

Haraldsson says the instrumentality keeps up with your usage limits due to the fact that it reads your Claude Code OAuth token to marque an API call, which past pulls the usage numbers from the effect headers directly.

Because Clawdmeter is an unfastened root project, anyone tin fork it to adhd their ain features, animations, screens, and more, based connected their peculiar interests and needs.

Haraldsson says helium was amazed to spot that implicit 800 radical person starred it connected GitHub since its May 10 launch, and 50 person already forked the task for their ain development. He suspects the instrumentality appeals to them due to the fact that it has a nostalgic feel.

“There’s a benignant of nostalgia for erstwhile you utilized to person a hardware instrumentality for everything — similar a Walkman to play music, oregon an iPod,” says Haraldsson. (Or, arsenic 1 Redditor put it, the Clawdmeter is similar a “hardware Tamagotchi for my discourse window.”)

“I cognize it’s not replacing thing — like, you could person this connected your machine — but it’s conscionable fun,” Haraldsson says.