Ration: Claude usage in your menubar 0 ▲ Péter Balázs Polgár 37 minutes ago · 6 min read1138 words · Tech · hide · 0 comments I built a Mac menubar app called Ration to see my Claude Code usage. Get it here. This is one of the things with coding agents, building small tools solving a small pain became increasingly easy. It’s also the situation where you are least likely to notice that you’re designing for one person. On one hand it’s cool that more people can build their own things, on the other hand personal tools have idiosyncrasies that make them fairly difficult for others. I kinda hope Ration is a bit different, but it’s also good to be self aware. What I actually wanted to know My use case is simple. 95% of my Claude usage is via Claude Code CLI in a nice customized Ghostty. I have set up a statusline to track my session usage there, so I kinda know how I’m doing. It looks like this: claude-usage-menubar | ctx:12% | 5h:28% | wk:56% -13% | Opus 5 · high Actually when I started to work on this, I didn’t had the wk: pacing yet on my statusline, that came later, as a side effect of building Ration. Also, I… No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.