Agent skill · marketing growth · steipete
codexbar
AI service usage/quota via CodexBar CLI: Codex/OpenAI, Claude, Kimi and other provider limits, credits, reset times.
Why this skill is useful
Adds specific commands for tracking usage and limits across multiple AI service providers that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
Requires codexbar installed locally. Requires claude, openai account access. About 2k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-06. 6,510 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
CodexBar Use this when asked about AI subscription usage, rate limits, remaining credits, or "how much Codex/Claude/Kimi do I have left". CLI Binary: codexbar (Homebrew) Default invocation honors the in-app provider toggles: Specific provider (--provider accepts codex, claude, kimi, gemini, copilot, cursor, openrouter, and many more — see codexbar --help): Multiple accounts: --account <label>, --account-index <n>, or --all-accounts (single provider only). Auth model Provider fetches ride existing sessions — OAuth caches, CLI credentials, or browser cookies. No secrets are passed on the command line. Codex: OpenAI web dashboard via oauth; falls back to Codex CLI. Claude: claude.ai API via browser session cookie; falls back to Claude CLI. "No Claude session key found in browser cookies" means log in to claude.ai in a supported browser (or rely on the CLI fallback). Token-based providers read the CodexBar config file. Dashboard endpoints The menu bar app serves its dashboard on loopback. The page pulls /dashboard/v1/snapshot and /cost; there is no /api/ namespace, so those paths 404 rather than telling you that you guessed. The snapshot endpoint requires auth, so when the CLI is unavailable the quickest honest check is to open the dashboard in a browser. usage --all-accounts polls every account serially and takes well over ninety seconds. If it produces zero bytes on both stdout and stderr, it is not slow, it is blocked: the CLI is a helper inside CodexBar.app, and a pending macOS Gatekeeper prompt stops it dead with no output. Screenshot the screen before debugging the command. Interpreting output Errors for providers that were never configured are noise, not failures — only report providers the user actually uses. Report percentage left, pace vs. expected, and reset time; the pace line ("in deficit"/"in reserve") is the actionable bit. Claude rows read claude-swap stored backups, which produces two confusing readings. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills steipete/codexbar