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What you have used, and how to use less
/usage shows how much of your allowance you have used, as two bars, one for the five-hour window you are in and one for the week, with when each resets.
Under that it says what has been eating it.
resets in 2 hours
resets in 6 days
resets in 6 days
What is contributing, over the last day
- 71%of the usage was at more than 150k context. Longer chats are more expensive even when cached. Compact mid-task, and start fresh when switching to a new task.
- 49%of the usage came from chats that spawned subagents. Each subagent runs its own requests. Be deliberate about spawning them, and give the simpler ones a cheaper model.
- 11%of the usage came from one kind of subagent, general-purpose. If one runs often, give it a cheaper model or tighten its brief.
Independent readings, not a breakdown, and approximate, from the chats on this machine only.
What it went on
- Skills/update-config1%
- Subagentsgeneral-purpose11%
- ConnectorsComposio
What /usage showed on my own machine on a Monday afternoon, on the Max plan.
It is indicative, and a useful thing to look at now and again.
You have already set the model and the effort, so this is just a feel for how token hungry what you are doing is.
The way people run out does not tend to be steady daily work.
It tends to be one very long chat, because every message you send carries the whole chat with it, so the same question costs more the longer the chat gets.
Three habits keep it down:
- Shorter chats. Start fresh when the task changes, because it costs less and the answers are better, which the next part explains.
- Plain files. A page of plain text or markdown costs a fraction of the same page as a PDF or a Word document, because the formatting takes tokens too, which is why the files on this course are plain.
- Only the context it needs. Name the file you want it to read rather than having it read the whole folder, and a file it reads once from the folder is cheaper than the same text pasted into every chat.
If you do hit the limit, you come back when it resets, and in the meantime every file is sitting on your own computer for you to read and browse as you please.