toknt

Local-first usage analytics for AI coding harnesses. toknt reads the native telemetry of OpenCode, OpenAI Codex CLI, Claude Code, Cline, pi, Grok Build, Gemini CLI and more (21 harnesses, see Source support) from your machine, normalizes it into a canonical model, keeps a local SQLite index, and renders token, cost and tool-call analytics in the terminal:

• an interactive TUI — booting into a GitHub-style contribution graph of tokens per day, with per-model series, a token-share donut, cache-hit-rate bars, tool outcomes and session rankings one keypress away,
• live 3h/5h/1d views — hour-bucketed model charts with an auto-rescanning background scan, for watching token counts accumulate in near real time,
• true image charts — anti-aliased, high-fidelity graphics via the kitty / iTerm2 / sixel protocols where the terminal supports them (previously-impossible resolution: no botched character cells),
• daily token usage by model, harness or project (line, bar, stacked, cumulative),
• cached-input share, reasoning share and requests over time,
• per-harness and per-project token share, plus the day cards (picked day, peak day) on the contributions view,
• model inventory with reported and estimated costs, kept strictly separate,
• tool-call outcomes with success-rate denominators, rate bars and duration percentiles,
• session rankings with per-session token share, outlier flags and parent/subagent attribution,
• CSV/JSON exports of the canonical records,
• toknt doctor for source discovery, coverage and data-quality issues.

Everything stays on disk. toknt never uploads telemetry, never authenticates to providers, and makes no network requests at any point.

Install

Requires Python 3.12+.

uv tool install toknt        # isolated install from PyPI
pipx install toknt           # or pipx
pip install toknt            # or into a virtualenv
brew install bitpeppr/formulae/toknt   # macOS (Homebrew)

Then:

toknt doctor             # what toknt found on this machine
toknt scan               # import local history (incremental)
toknt                    # interactive: usage explorer, boot view = contributions
toknt -h                 # all commands accept the short help flag

From a checkout, uv sync and prefix commands with uv run (e.g. uv run toknt doctor).

Interactive mode

Running bare toknt in a terminal enters the explorer instead of printing a static dashboard. Every view opens with a bold heading and a hairline rule, so the content reads as one page. The page fills the terminal up to 192 columns and centers itself beyond that, so the margins on the left and the right always match — and a big monitor gets more content rather than stretched rows.

It starts on the contributions view: every day of the chosen window laid out like GitHub's contribution graph, colored by total tokens, with weekday labels and month labels centered over their own month (never colliding, even on dense windows). The calendar stays tight and sits directly against its weekday labels — week columns are two cells wide with a single space between them, never stretched across the page. On wide terminals the page splits in two: the left holds the calendar and the days it inspects (picked day under the cursor with its per-harness amounts, then the peak day), while the right rail carries the window total with its daily average, the share-by-project list, the share-by-harness list (both with inline bars) and a quiet note about toggled-off harnesses. On a wide screen the rail splits into two columns — projects beside harnesses — and project paths show their tail (…/Project/kbd), which is what tells two projects apart. The bars that carry a series colour paint it on the used portion only; the unfilled track is plain space, which respects terminals with a transparent background (halftone shade characters puddle into noise there) and reads as less ink everywhere. Narrow terminals fold back to a single column, and the legend there names the harnesses that carry data as colored swatches, keeps toggled-off ones visible (codex (off)) and collapses the idle ones into a single +N idle tail. A compact tab bar (view chips, window/metric/harness state) marks the active view in its series color; the bottom bar pairs each key with a dim action label.

Key	Action
1–4	contributions · tokens by model · tools · sessions
t	cycle window: 3d → 1d → 5h → 3h → all → 1y → 90d → 30d → 7d
v	cycle metric: total · input · output · reasoning · cached
p	models view: chart unit tokens ⇄ tok/s (derived from message gaps); token charts use a log scale, tok/s stays linear
m	merge the same model served by different providers (one row each)
h	isolate one harness at a time: all → each (that has data) → all
← → ↑ ↓	move the day cursor (contributions) or table selection
r	rescan all sources in the background, then show fresh data
?	key reference overlay (the chart underneath stays put)
q, Ctrl+C	quit

Every launch rescans the sources, so the numbers on screen are the numbers as of now, not as of the last time you opened the app. The rescan runs in its own process: a source that has not changed is skipped in milliseconds, and the interface stays interactive while a busy one is read.

The 3h, 5h and 1d windows are the live views: the tokens-by-model chart switches to hour buckets with clock-time tick labels (19:00 20:00 …), and the app rescans every source in the background every ~30 seconds (quickly on entry, then steadily), sliding the window forward with each completed scan — token counts, the donut and the cache-rate bars move on their own while you watch. The ‣ scanning… chip shows when a refresh is in flight; the UI stays interactive throughout.

The explorer opens on the 3-day window and the t key walks the cycle backwards — 3d → 1d → 5h → 3h → all → 1y → 90d → 30d → 7d — so the shorter, more recent windows are one keystroke away and everything else is one keystroke further.

Windows up to a week (3h, 5h, 1d, 3d, 7d) are charted by the hour, so the day-scale windows still show the working rhythm instead of a handful of flat daily totals; from 30d on, the charts switch to day buckets. The contribution grid always draws calendar days, so a short window shows the days it covers inside the current week.

The models view renders a chart of the current metric split by the top 8 models beside a right rail that holds a donut of the models' token share (on image backends; a colored share ribbon elsewhere), the model's legend chips, and cache hit-rate bars that mirror the per-model table (one bar per visible row, in the table's order; scheme-aware: cache reads are a separate denominator for anthropic-style sources, a subset for openai-style ones, and absent entirely for unknown schemes, shown as —). Below, the per-model breakdown table fills the zone width and ends with a vs max bar showing each model's size relative to the busiest one, and — when the table zone can afford it (about 110 columns or wider) — a tok/s column with each model's mean generation rate. The selected metric drives all of it — the chart, the donut's shares, the table's numbers and the ranking — so switching to input re-ranks the table by input tokens and reports input tokens in every column. Pressing p trades the chart's unit: instead of tokens per bucket it draws the derived tok/s rate per bucket, keeping the same models in the same order (only the lines move, never the colours). Token charts use a logarithmic y-axis — a 5M-token model stays legible next to a 250M one instead of collapsing into the baseline — while the tok/s chart stays linear, because a rate is a ratio, not a magnitude. Piping or scripting (non-tty stdout) gets the old static print; toknt overview forces that dashboard, and TOKNT_TUI=0 disables the interactive boot entirely.

Where tok/s comes from (and how accurate it is)

The harnesses record when each assistant message finished, never how long it took, so a rate cannot be read off a single event. toknt instead pairs every message with its predecessor in the same session and derives

tok/s = Σ (generated tokens) / Σ (gap to the previous message)

Generated tokens follow the source's own reporting scheme, because the categories mean different things: an Anthropic-style source reports reasoning beside output, so both count; an OpenAI-style source reports reasoning inside output, so counting it again would inflate the rate by tens of percent on reasoning-heavy models. Prompt handling (input and cache) is never part of what a rate measures. The pairing excludes a session's first message, gaps longer than five minutes (a person's lunch is not model slowness), and messages that report no generated tokens, so those events hand their predecessor's gap to whoever follows. Events without session attribution have no conversation to pair within and drop out of every rate. In the weighting, a slow message biases its day more than a fast burst, which matches what the wall clock actually spent. Accuracy depends on the work: tool-free bursts land closest to a model's true output speed, while turns dominated by long tool runs bias the rate down, because the wall clock between messages includes the tools. toknt has no way to measure a true duration, so treat the comparisons between models and the trends over time as the signal — never a single number as gospel. In interactive mode the estimate lives behind p on the models view (chart) and the table's tok/s column; on the command line it is toknt models --tps.

Merging models across providers

The same model is recorded under different names depending on who served it: z-ai/glm-5.3-flash (vendor prefix), cline-free/muse-spark-1.3-contributor (harness prefix), glm-5.3-flash-free (provider's free tier), thinkingmachines/inkling:free (routing tag), llama-3-70b-q4_k_m (quantization). Pressing m merges those spellings into one row, one chart series and one cache-rate bar — muse-spark-1.3 from Cline and from OpenCode become one model, and z-ai/glm-5.3-flash and glm-5.3-flash-free become one. The same merge is available on the command line with toknt usage --merge-models (also toknt models --merge-models and toknt overview --merge-models).

The merge is deliberately narrow, because merging the wrong models would quietly distort every number:

• Dropped (they describe how a model was served, not which model it is): a leading vendor/ or harness/ segment, a :free-style routing tag, free-tier and vendor-programme markers (-free, -contributor) and quantization suffixes (-fp8, -q4_k_m, -awq).
• Kept (they identify the model): version numbers, size tiers (flash, mini, ultra), capability markers (vl, instruct), release stages (preview) and exact build tags.

So glm-5.3 and glm-5.3-flash stay apart, muse-spark-1.3 and muse-spark-1.2 stay apart, and nemotron-3-ultra does not swallow nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b. Merged rows are summarized as a whole, so totals, event counts, sessions and reported cost stay consistent.

Terminal graphics

When the terminal understands an image protocol, the models chart and the token-share donut are rendered as anti-aliased bitmaps — soft-edged strokes, transparent background, gridlines — and placed inline (kitty: kitty/ghostty/WezTerm/Warp/rio, iTerm2: OSC 1337, sixel: xterm/foot). Identical charts are re-rendered from a small cache, so navigating never re-encodes the bitmap; when an image's slot disappears (view switch, smaller window) it is erased with the terminal's own background color, so no ghost graphs live behind the text. The help overlay is plain text and deliberately leaves the chart bitmap on screen. Everything else degrades to sharp Braille-dot charts, so the same data views work in a plain screen.

Check what your terminal reports — and whether it actually draws images:

toknt doctor          # the "Graphics" row names the backend and the reason
toknt graphics        # draws a test chart; force a transport with --backend
toknt graphics --alt  # same image inside the alternate screen (like the TUI)

toknt graphics prints the detected transport (kitty / iterm2 / sixel / off) with the reason, then emits a real chart. If no image appears, your terminal does not implement the detected protocol — force another one with TOKNT_GRAPHICS=kitty|sixel|iterm2 or [presentation] graphics = "…". Inside the TUI the same test is one keypress away: g draws the identical test image.

Terminals without image support (Apple Terminal, Alacritty, most tmux setups) use the Braille charts; toknt refuses to send images inside a multiplexer, where they would be swallowed silently.

Detection can be forced:

[presentation]
graphics = "auto"   # auto | kitty | iterm2 | sixel | off

TOKNT_GRAPHICS overrides the same setting per invocation (off restores character-cell charts everywhere). Non-tty output never emits images.

Source support

A harness is the CLI/IDE program that talks to the model (the word "agent" now commonly means plan/build modes, so toknt doesn't use it for this). Every harness below feeds the same canonical model; adapters are parameterized by format family where stores share a shape. Sources are opened read-only and never modified.

Harness	Default location	Status
OpenCode	~/.local/share/opencode (or OPENCODE_DATA_DIR, XDG_DATA_HOME)	validated against real data (2026-10)
Codex CLI	~/.codex/sessions (or CODEX_HOME)	validated against real data (2026-10)
Claude Code	~/.claude/projects (or CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR)	fixtures only (not installed on the dev machine)
Cline (CLI)	~/.cline/data/sessions (or CLINE_DATA_DIR)	validated against real data (2026-10)
Cline / Roo Code / Kilo Code (VS Code)	<globalStorage>/<ext id>/tasks across Code/Insiders/VSCodium/Cursor/Windsurf hosts	documented format; sessions + tools (the format carries no tokens)
pi	~/.pi/agent/sessions	validated against real data (2026-10)
Grok Build	~/.grok/sessions (or GROK_HOME)	validated against real data (2026-10)
Command Code	~/.commandcode/projects	Claude-shaped transcripts; fixtures only
CodeBuddy Code / ZCode	~/.codebuddy/projects, ~/.zcode/projects	Claude-shaped transcripts; fixtures only
TRAE CLI	~/.trae/cli/sessions (or TRAE_HOME)	Codex-shaped rollouts; fixtures only
Gemini CLI	~/.gemini/tmp/*/chats (or GEMINI_CLI_HOME)	documented checkpoint format; fixtures only
Qwen Code	~/.qwen/projects (or QWEN_HOME)	Gemini-shaped; fixtures only
pi-family (senpi, omp, gajae-code, prime, kimchi)	~/.<name>/agent/sessions (~/.config/kimchi/harness/sessions for kimchi)	pi-shaped session trees; fixtures only
Kiro (CLI/IDE/headless)	~/.kiro/sessions, <app support>/kiro-cli/data.sqlite3	documented formats; sessions + tools (no token counts)
Amp (Sourcegraph)	~/.local/share/amp/threads (or XDG_DATA_HOME)	thread JSON files; fixtures only
Goose (Block)	<data>/goose/sessions/sessions.db, legacy JSONL tree	sessions only (the store carries no token counts)

Recognized but deliberately unreadable (encrypted, zstd-compressed or per-project stores without a stable schema): aider, antigravity, cherry studio, codewhale, copilot, crush, cursor, deepseek, devin, hermes, jetbrains, junie, muse, openclaw, reasonix, windsurf, zed — toknt doctor lists them so "known" is never confused with "readable".

Config: [adapters] enabled = [...] accepts any of the harness ids above (default: all); paths overrides a harness's root, e.g. paths = { cline = "/Volumes/backup/cline" }.

Commands

Period options accept 30d, 12h, 8w, calendar dates (2026-10-01) and all; --harness (alias --agent), --model and --project filters repeat.

Command	What it does
toknt	interactive explorer (static overview print when stdout is not a tty)
toknt overview	static overview dashboard: totals, per-day chart by model, model and tool tables; --merge-models
toknt scan [--full]	incremental import; --full reindexes and reconciles deleted rows
toknt usage	token series: --by model|harness|project (agent kept as an alias), --metric total|input|output|reasoning|cache_read|cache_write|cached|requests, --bucket hour|day|week, --chart line|bar|stacked|none, --cumulative, --top N, --merge-models
toknt models	per-model requests, tokens, reported and estimated cost
toknt tools	per-tool calls, success rate (known outcomes only), --limit
toknt sessions	sessions ranked by usage, ! outliers, --limit
toknt export	--what usage|tools|sessions --format csv|json to stdout
toknt doctor	configuration, detected/ingested sources, table counts, quality issues, pricing hint
toknt pricing list|add|remove	per-model prices for cost estimates

Examples:

toknt usage --since 90d --by model --metric cached --chart stacked
toknt tools --since 30d --chart trend --bucket week
toknt export --what usage --format csv --since 7d > usage.csv
toknt pricing add gpt-6-luna --input 1.25 --output 10 --cache-read 0.125

Token accounting

Token categories overlap differently across providers, so every usage event stores a token_scheme and totals are computed per scheme:

Scheme	How tokens add up	Notes
anthropic (OpenCode, Claude Code, Cline, pi, Amp)	input + output + reasoning + cache_read + cache_write	cache reads/writes are separate from input; reasoning is inside output (structural zero)
openai (Codex CLI, TRAE, Gemini CLI, Qwen, Grok)	input + output	cached input is a subset of input; reasoning is a subset of output

Source-specific rules enforced by the adapters:

• OpenCode stores a dual schema (session/message plus session_v2/session_message); records appearing in both are deduplicated by message id and tool calls by call id. Streaming rewrites update the same event instead of adding a second one. Forked sessions copy the parent's message history under new ids while the fork's own session_v2.tokens_* aggregate starts at zero — those copied rows are skipped (and counted in the scan note), so toknt's totals match opencode's own stats screen (verified: 2.68B vs opencode's 2.6B display; before the fix toknt showed 2× because two fork chains re-counted their shared history).
• Codex CLI has two rollout generations. Files containing token_usage_record use only those per-response figures (the adjacent cumulative mirrors are ignored); older files derive per-response increments from last_token_usage (or from cumulative totals as a fallback, flagged with quality=derived). A file that switches generation mid-file triggers a retraction of its legacy rows instead of double counting.
• Claude Code transcripts contain the same response several times while streaming; snapshots are deduplicated by requestId keeping the largest usage. Extended thinking is billed inside output_tokens, so reasoning is reported as a structural zero — it is never guessed. Claude-shaped forks (Command Code, CodeBuddy, ZCode) reuse the parser; Command Code's sidecar streams (.checkpoints.jsonl, .prompts.jsonl, .v2.bak) are skipped so they never become phantom sessions.
• Cline per-response metrics come from each assistant message (metrics/modelInfo); the manifest's session-level metadata.usage is deliberately ignored because it is stale after compaction (verified against a live corpus). tool_result entries with {query, result, error, success} records classify outcomes from their structured success flags.
• pi-family usage follows the models.dev convention (verified: total == input + output + cacheRead + cacheWrite across a live corpus); failed API calls (stopReason == "error") are skipped like Claude Code's API errors.
• Grok per-turn usage comes from each session's usage.json (turns[] with per-model splits); total == input + output (verified), so cached reads map as a subset of input. costUsdTicks has no documented scale and is never converted into a cost.
• Gemini CLI / Qwen record total == input + output + thoughts with cached inside input; toknt records the openai scheme and surfaces the thoughts as reasoning, flagging provider_total_mismatch on every event where thoughts > 0 instead of quietly folding them into a total.
• Kiro, Cline-VS-Code, Goose formats carry no token counts at all: their sessions and tool calls still count, and the missing tokens stay missing (quality-flagged), never estimated.
• Every usage event keeps its provider-reported total when the source reports one; when component math disagrees, the mismatch is recorded as a quality note rather than "fixed". Unknown schemes produce no total at all.
• Session identities keep their source ids; subagent sessions record a parent_session_id and an agent_mode (e.g. subagent:Linnaeus, sidechain) instead of being merged into the parent.

Costs: reported vs estimated

• reported cost is what a source itself recorded per response (OpenCode's cost, Claude Code's costUSD when present). It is stored with the event.
• estimated cost is computed at query time from the pricing table and config overrides, so price updates never rewrite history. Codex rollouts carry no cost, so Codex models only ever show estimates.
• An estimate is produced only when every non-zero token category has a price; otherwise the value stays — and coverage is shown next to totals (e.g. 3 of 17,649 events priced (0%)). Nothing is invented.
• Scheme-aware billing: anthropic-style events bill reasoning at the output rate; OpenAI-style events bill non-cached input at the input rate and cached input at the cache-read rate (never double-billed).

Configuration

The optional config file lives in the platform config directory — run toknt doctor to see the exact path (~/.config/toknt/config.toml when XDG_CONFIG_HOME is set, ~/Library/Application Support/toknt/config.toml otherwise on macOS, XDG on Linux), or point TOKNT_CONFIG anywhere:

[general]
since = "30d"        # default window for all commands
bucket = "day"       # hour | day | week

[adapters]
enabled = ["opencode", "codex", "claude_code"]   # [] disables scanning entirely
paths = { codex = "/Volumes/external/codex" }    # per-agent source overrides

[display]
aliases = { "claude-sonnet-4-5" = "Sonnet 4.5" } # display only; ids stay exact

[privacy]
ignore_projects = ["/work/secret"]   # excluded from analytics

[pricing."gpt-6-luna"]               # override or extend table prices, field-wise
input = 1.25
output = 10
cache_read = 0.125

TOKNT_DATA_DIR relocates the database (default: platform application-data directory, ~/Library/Application Support/toknt/toknt.db on macOS).

Diagnostics and data quality

toknt doctor explains, without reading any source content:

• where the database and config live, and which adapters are enabled,
• which sources exist now and their notes (e.g. archived sessions found),
• what has been ingested, when it was last scanned and with which result,
• table row counts and per-agent coverage (requests, outcome observability),
• aggregated quality issues (toknt doctor footer), recording code, occurrence count and a safe sample reference — never prompt text, tool arguments or outputs. Counts describe the source as last observed: the same defect is never counted twice, different affected records are added up, and a toknt scan --full refreshes them instead of accumulating.

Quality codes: unparsable_row, unreadable_file, missing_usage, missing_token_info, orphan_tool_output, orphan_tool_result, scan_failed. When a source was last scanned with status partial or error, doctor suggests toknt scan --full to rebuild it from scratch.

Tool success rates use only calls with a known final outcome; pending and unknown calls are excluded from the denominator and stay visible in the outcome columns, so a success rate can never flatter the data. (In the TUI's tools table the unknown column counts both — a pending call has no result yet, which is the same "not a known outcome" bucket.)

Privacy

Stored per event: timestamps, token counts, cost fields, model/provider/agent ids, project paths, session ids, tool names, outcome status and quality notes. Never stored: prompt bodies, model responses, tool arguments, tool outputs, file contents, credentials.

Performance

toknt reads sources incrementally (checkpoints with byte offsets and fingerprints for JSONL, per-source watermarks for SQLite) and indexes SQLite for timestamp/model/session/agent/tool queries. Unchanged files are skipped by a stat check.

tests/test_performance.py builds a synthetic six-month history — three harnesses, 30k usage events and 15k tool calls, including duplicate legacy OpenCode rows, both Codex format generations and Claude snapshot dedupe — and measures (Apple Silicon laptop, SSD, 2026-10):

Scenario	Wall time
Cold scan (everything, all agents)	≈2 s
Warm scan (no changes)	~0.07 s
Incremental scan after appending a small batch per agent	~0.07 s
Analytics queries (daily series, tool outcomes, cost estimate over 30k events)	~0.5 s

Real-machine full rescan of ~20k OpenCode events with full-size payloads plus the Codex rollouts takes ≈5 s; synthetic JSON payloads are compact, so treat cold-scan figures as a lower bound. Run uv run pytest tests/test_performance.py -s -q to reproduce; the test also asserts per-agent row counts exactly, so repeated scans can never inflate totals.

Known limitations

• Claude Code and the fixture-validated harnesses above are covered by synthetic tests only (see the source-support table); treat their numbers as best effort until verified on a machine with real transcripts. The three harnesses marked "validated against real data" are regression-tested against the live corpus on the development machine in tests/test_adapters/test_live_harnesses.py (skipped automatically when a store is absent).
• Harnesses whose formats carry no token counts (Kiro, Cline's VS Code task dirs, Goose) show sessions and tool outcomes but no token/cost figures — by design, never estimated.
• Codex rollouts carry no reported cost; cost columns for Codex are estimates once you add prices, otherwise —.
• A reported cost of $0.00 means the source recorded zero (typical for free/subscription models), not that toknt estimated zero.
• Models with unknown token schemes show no total; partial usage stays partial (flagged), never completed by guessing.
• Estimated costs ignore provider pricing subtleties beyond the documented four categories (e.g. batch discounts, long-context surcharges).
• Charts render with plotext; very narrow terminals fold tables but charts need roughly 80+ columns for full legibility. Time-series charts start at your earliest stored event (even with --since all) and, once the span exceeds one year, tick labels carry the two-digit year so the chronology stays unambiguous. Token line charts (toknt overview, toknt usage --chart line) plot on a logarithmic axis with token-unit tick labels (1K, 1M, …) so heavy hitters cannot flatten everyone else; a day with zero tokens sits on the baseline. --chart bar|stacked and rate/percentage charts stay linear so bar lengths keep their proportional meaning.

Development

uv sync                        # create the venv and install dependencies
uv run pytest                  # full suite (hermetic; never reads real history)
uv run pytest tests/test_performance.py -s -q   # benchmark with timings
uv run ruff check .            # lint
uv run toknt doctor            # inspect local database and source detection

Test fixtures are synthetic and sanitized (tests/fixtures, tests/support); the suite covers parsing pitfalls for every source format family, dedupe and rescans, truncated/replaced files, subagents, outcome correlation, pricing strictness, timezone/bucket boundaries, exports and CLI behavior on empty databases. Milestones and their completion gates are recorded in plan.md.