Quotas and cost

The status bar

The bar sits at the bottom of the window. From left to right:

Quotas

Reading the bars

Escouade follows the two quota windows of your Claude subscription: the 5-hour window and the weekly window. Each one is written compactly, a label, a bar and a countdown:

5h … reset 3h01 | W … reset 4d 12h

• “5h” is the 5-hour window, “W” the weekly window (7 days).
• The bar fills with the share of the quota used. It turns amber above 80%.
• “reset 3h01” is the time left before the window resets: 3 hours and 1 minute. From one day on, the countdown reads “4d 12h”. The word “reset” is the same in both languages.
• The percentage isn’t written: it shows when you hover the label, the bar or the countdown, with the date of the reset. For example: “42% · resets on 10/10 at 6:00 PM”.
• With a single account, Tab focuses each bar, which screen readers announce as “5-hour quota” or “7-day quota” with the same value.
• As long as Escouade has read nothing, the bar is empty, a “—” replaces the countdown and the tooltip says “Quota unavailable”.

With several accounts

As soon as there is more than one account in the list of accounts, the bar writes the current account’s name in front of the two quotas: it is the account a new agent would start on right now, leaving out the accounts reserved to projects.

The group then becomes a button, “Quota by account (current account: Pro)”. A click (or Enter with the keyboard) opens the “Claude accounts quota” panel above the bar. Esc or a click outside closes it. It shows each account, the current one first, then the others in the order of the settings:

• its name, with the “current” tag for the current account and “past the pause threshold” when one of its windows has passed “Pause above quota”;
• what its turns cost today, for example “Today: $1.20” (with “≈” while a turn is running);
• its two windows, this time with the percentage written next to the bar;
• dimmed, the reason when the account isn’t fully read: “Inactive”, “Not signed in”, “Sign-in expired: run Claude Code again for this account.”.

Where the quotas come from

Escouade reads each account’s quotas again every minute, a first time two seconds after startup. The figures come from two sources:

• A Claude process of the account, when an agent of the account is running: Escouade queries it, and Claude Code also reports the state of the windows by itself during a turn. It is the most direct source.
• Anthropic’s usage service, for an active account no agent is running on. Escouade queries it with the sign-in Claude Code keeps for the account, which it reads without changing, and at most once every 5 minutes per account. The request goes through the proxy of the network settings if there is one.

When an account has just been signed in, its quota is read right away.

When a quota isn’t read

For an account that is “Not signed in” or whose sign-in has expired, the last values read stay shown until the end of their window.

Cost

Amounts are in US dollars.

Today

“Today” is the sum of the turns finished since midnight, your computer’s time, across all accounts, including those you have removed since. It updates at the end of each turn. With several accounts, the quota panel gives the same total account by account.

Live during a turn

While Claude works, tokens and cost rise live. Claude Code only gives a turn’s exact cost when it ends; until then, Escouade estimates it from the models’ public prices (input, output, cache read and cache write). An estimate is written with “≈” in front of the amount, and the tooltip explains it: “Estimate (public prices) while Claude works; exact cost at the end of the turn”.

When the turn ends, Claude Code’s exact figure replaces the estimate. For a model whose price Escouade doesn’t know, tokens rise but the cost only appears at the end of the turn.

Where to see an agent’s figures

The statistics add all this up by day, week or month.

When a quota nears its limit

Escouade reacts in three ways. The first two depend on the “Pause above quota” threshold, which you set in Settings › Kanban, “Autopilot” group: 80, 90, 95 or 100% of a window, 100% by default, the same for all projects (the Kanban settings). An account is at the threshold when one of its windows reaches it and its reset is still to come.

1. New agents change account. When the current account passes the threshold and another one is available, new agents and tickets start on the other. A notification says so: “The Main account has reached 91%: new agents now go to Pro.” (Several Claude accounts).
2. The autopilot pauses. When every account a ticket can use is at the threshold, no ticket starts. The Kanban then writes, under its header, a line such as “Autopilot paused: 5-hour quota at 92% (resumes at 3:00 PM)”, with the names of the accounts concerned when there are several, and the “Resume now” button to override it. The pause lifts by itself at the reset. When a ticket’s agent hits the usage limit with no resume planned (auto-resume off, or the reset time unknown), no ticket starts either for 30 minutes on its account. See the autopilot.
3. An agent reaches the limit mid-turn. It stops and resumes by itself after the reset, or on another account if you ask for it. See Resume an agent stopped by the usage limit.