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Claude Code already shows what I spent. I optimized the spending.

A developer known as CraniusMaximus has released session-tax, an open-source tool that analyzes Claude Code session transcripts to identify idle skills and estimate their token overhead. The tool reads local transcript files without network calls and provides a free edition with basic totals, while a paid $19 version names dead skills and supports JSON output. The project is available on GitHub.

read1 min views1 publishedAug 5, 2026

Claude Code already has /usage

(same as /cost

). On a Pro or Max plan it will show session cost estimates, plan bars, and a recent breakdown of usage by skill, subagent, plugin, and MCP server.

But, I wanted to optimize Claude, or have it optimize itself, rather than tell me. Skills I installed months ago were sitting idle, and contributing tokens each turn. /usage

is good at showing what ran and what counted against the plan. It does not answer: what is installed, still loads, and has not fired once across the last stretch of my own transcripts?

That is what session-tax is for.

It reads your Claude Code session transcripts off disk on your machine. No network calls in the free script. Imports are fs

, path

, and os

.

Across a window you choose (default 90 days) it reports: The dollar line is a rough guide. It prices opening context using the cache-read / cache-write mix it sees in your transcripts, and it says so. On a subscription you mostly pay this in overhead.

Free edition: the totals above. It will tell you how many skills look dead and what that listing tax adds up to. It does not print the names.

Paid ($19, one seat): names the dead skills, points at cold servers (connected but almost never called), machine-readable `--json`

, and `--home`

so you can audit a different profile. Shop link lives in the GitHub README on purpose. Some forums quietly filter *.pages.dev

URLs.

Repo: github.com/CraniusMaximus/claude-code-autonomy-pack Does it help? Is it a waste of time? Any inaccuracies?

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