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# Notchmeter Notchmeter is a macOS app that shows AI coding-tool usage beside the MacBook notch. It also answers from the terminal, in JSON, without the app running and without a Keychain prompt. Use it before starting anything that will take a while, and whenever the user asks about their limits. ## When to use - Before a long task (a large refactor, a migration, a research pass): check the Claude session and weekly windows and the advice line, and say what you found in one sentence. - When the user asks "how much do I have left", "will this fit before the reset", "which model should I use", or "what has today cost". - When a task is running out of quota: the advice names the tool or model with room and when the window resets. ## The command Prefer the command-line tool when it is installed (Settings › General › *Install command line tool…* links it into `~/.local/bin` or `/usr/local/bin`): ```bash notchmeter --json # every tool notchmeter claude --json # one tool ``` It answers from the running app's cached report (the same object, at most a few minutes old) or its local API, and only asks the vendors when the app is not running; `notchmeter --force` reads afresh. If `notchmeter` is not on the PATH, the app's own executable is the same command under `--cli`: ```bash /Applications/Notchmeter.app/Contents/MacOS/Notchmeter --cli --json ``` If the app is built from source instead, the path is `build/Notchmeter.app/Contents/MacOS/Notchmeter` inside the re