wyattmcph-claude-monitor 3.2.1

Real-time terminal monitor for Claude Code token usage — with keyword analytics, gradient UI, and animated display

🎯 Claude Code Usage Monitor

A real-time terminal monitor for Claude Code token usage — with keyword analytics, gradient progress bars, an animated Rich UI, and burn-rate sparklines. Track exactly where your tokens and budget are going, broken down by topic.

Fork of Maciek-roboblog/Claude-Code-Usage-Monitor — extended with keyword analytics and visual improvements in v3.2.0.

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✨ What's New in v3.2.0

Feature	Description
🔍 Keyword Analytics	See how many tokens and dollars went to conversations about unreal, python, git, or any topic you care about
🎨 Gradient Progress Bars	Bars fill green → yellow → red so you instantly know how urgent each metric is
✨ Rich Panel Header	Bordered header with plan-colour coding and an animated LIVE dot
📈 Burn Rate Sparkline	Inline ▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ chart of your last 20 burn-rate samples
🎛️ Animation Levels	--animation none/subtle/moderate/full — pick how much motion you want

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🚀 Installation

Recommended — uv (fastest, no environment issues)

# Install uv if you don't have it (Windows)
powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"

# Install uv (macOS / Linux)
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

# Then install the monitor
uv tool install wyattmcph-claude-monitor

# Run it
claude-monitor

pip

pip install wyattmcph-claude-monitor
claude-monitor

pipx

pipx install wyattmcph-claude-monitor
claude-monitor

Install from source (latest changes)

pip install git+https://github.com/wyattmcph/wyattmcph-claude-monitor.git

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📖 Usage

claude-monitor          # default (custom plan, auto-detects limits)
cmonitor                # short alias
ccm                     # shortest alias
claude-code-monitor     # full alias

All CLI Options

Flag	Default	Description
--plan	custom	pro · max5 · max20 · custom
--custom-limit-tokens	—	Explicit token cap for custom plan
--view	realtime	realtime · daily · monthly
--animation	subtle	none · subtle · moderate · full
--keywords	—	Comma-separated topics to track (e.g. "unreal,python")
--timezone	auto	Any valid timezone, e.g. America/New_York
--time-format	auto	12h · 24h · auto
--theme	auto	light · dark · classic · auto
--refresh-rate	10	Data refresh in seconds (1–60)
--refresh-per-second	0.75	Display refresh in Hz (0.1–20)
--reset-hour	—	Override daily reset hour (0–23)
--log-file	—	Path to write log output
--log-level	INFO	DEBUG · INFO · WARNING · ERROR
--debug	—	Shorthand for --log-level DEBUG
--clear	—	Wipe saved preferences
--version / -v	—	Print version and exit

Your preferences (theme, timezone, animation level, etc.) are saved automatically to ~/.claude-monitor/last_used.json and restored on the next run. Pass any flag explicitly to override just for that session.

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🔍 Keyword Analytics

Track exactly how much of your Claude budget went towards specific topics.

Quick start

# Track a few topics right now
claude-monitor --keywords "unreal,python,git"

Persistent keyword list

Create ~/.claude-monitor/keywords.txt — one keyword per line, # for comments:

# My keyword list
unreal
blueprint
python
git
debugging

The CLI --keywords flag always overrides the file for that session.

What the panel shows

Once keywords are configured a panel appears below the live display:

╭─ 🔍 Keyword Analytics ──────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│  Keyword      Convos  Mentions    Tokens      Cost    % Cost  Bar        │
│  #unreal          12       143   842,301   $14.23     31.2%  ████████░░  │
│  #python           8        67   421,050    $7.88     17.3%  █████░░░░░  │
│  #git              5        31   187,200    $3.12      6.8%  ██░░░░░░░░  │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

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🎛️ Animation Levels

claude-monitor --animation subtle    # pulsing LIVE dot only (default)
claude-monitor --animation moderate  # LIVE dot + burn-rate sparkline
claude-monitor --animation full      # everything on
claude-monitor --animation none      # completely static

The setting is remembered between runs.

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📊 Plan Reference

Plan	Token Limit	Cost Limit	Best For
custom	P90 auto-detect	~$50	Default — adapts to your history
pro	~19,000	$18	Claude Pro subscription
max5	~88,000	$35	Claude Max5 subscription
max20	~220,000	$140	Claude Max20 subscription

The custom plan analyses the last 8 days of your sessions and uses the 90th-percentile token and cost values as your limits, so it adapts to how you actually work.

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🖥️ Usage Views

claude-monitor --view realtime   # live monitor (default)
claude-monitor --view daily      # daily usage table
claude-monitor --view monthly    # monthly usage table

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🌍 Common Examples

# US East Coast, dark theme, track Unreal work
claude-monitor --timezone America/New_York --theme dark --keywords "unreal,blueprint"

# Max5 plan with sparkline enabled
claude-monitor --plan max5 --animation moderate

# Daily usage summary
claude-monitor --view daily --timezone UTC

# Debug mode with log file
claude-monitor --debug --log-file ~/.claude-monitor/debug.log

# Reset all saved settings
claude-monitor --clear

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🔧 How Sessions Work

Claude Code uses 5-hour rolling session windows:

• A session starts with your first message and lasts exactly 5 hours
• Token and cost limits apply per session window
• You can have multiple overlapping sessions simultaneously
• The monitor tracks the active session and predicts when it will run out

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🛠️ Development Setup

# Clone this fork
git clone https://github.com/wyattmcph/wyattmcph-claude-monitor.git
cd Claude-Code-Usage-Monitor-and-Analyze

# Install in editable mode with dev dependencies
pip install -e ".[dev]"

# Run tests
python -m pytest src/tests/ -q

# Run from source
python -m claude_monitor

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🐛 Troubleshooting

"externally-managed-environment" error on Linux Use uv tool install claude-monitor or pipx install claude-monitor instead of bare pip.

claude-monitor command not found after pip install

echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc

No active session / no data showing Send at least one message in Claude Code first, then wait one refresh cycle (default 10 seconds).

Keywords panel not appearing Make sure you've either created ~/.claude-monitor/keywords.txt or passed --keywords "...". The panel only shows when at least one keyword is configured.

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📝 License

MIT — use and modify freely.

🙏 Credits

Built on top of the excellent original by Maciek-roboblog. Extended with keyword analytics and visual improvements by wyattmcph.

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