Building a Vitals Monitor for Claude Code
A Slack thread about our climbing AI bill, plus word that per-user usage limits were landing soon, sent me to check what I was actually spending on Claude Code. The answer was that I had no idea.
The cost only showed up after the fact, in a dashboard I never opened. So I built a gauge instead. My terminal footer now reads out the session's vitals on every render, and the whole thing is one shell script.
