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A local TypeScript CLI called ASU, published to npm as @allixsenos/asu and now at version 0.7.0, lets users check remaining usage on their Claude, Codex, and GitHub Copilot coding-agent subscriptions directly from each provider's account API. ASU requires Node.js 22.13 or newer and runs via npx with flags including --table, --plain, --json, --fresh, and --all, and a maintainer-run snapshot captured on 2026-09-10 at 07:08 UTC showed Claude Max 20x usage at 18% of the 5-hour window and 24% of the weekly window. The tool fetches providers concurrently so a failed provider does not hide results from the others, and it caches usage for five minutes unless --fresh is passed.

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Show HN: See how much of your Claude, Codex, or Copilot subscription is left
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See how much of your coding-agent subscription you used, straight from the provider's account API.

ASU is a local TypeScript CLI for humans and agents. It finds supported installations and credentials, fetches usage from each provider concurrently, and prints bars, a table, plain text, or versioned JSON. Each provider has its own adapter. A failed provider does not hide the results of the other providers.

npx --yes @allixsenos/asu@latest

This is a real run against the maintainer's accounts on 2026-09-10. Bars are green below 70 percent, yellow from 70, and red from 90. Reset times are relative to the moment of the run, with the local clock after the dot. Pass --table for the table view, --utc for full timestamps, --plain for log-friendly text, or --json for agents and scripts. The same view as plain text is in the snapshot section below.

ASU needs Node.js 22.13 or newer and npm. Sign in through the provider's own CLI first.

npx --yes @allixsenos/asu@latest

This runs the newest release of @allixsenos/asu from npm. No token is needed. Your provider credentials, which are separate, let ASU read usage.

npx --yes @allixsenos/asu@latest --plain

npx --yes @allixsenos/asu@latest --json

npx --yes @allixsenos/asu@latest claude

npx --yes @allixsenos/asu@latest claude codex copilot --fresh --table

npx --yes @allixsenos/asu@latest --all --table

To pin a version, name it, for example @allixsenos/asu@0.3.0. The --fresh flag refreshes provider usage. It does not select a newer package revision.

npx --yes github:allixsenos/asu --table

This needs Git. The repository commits the built dist/ directory, so the install needs no build step. For SSH, use git+ssh://git@github.com/allixsenos/asu.git#main. To pin a commit or a tag, append it, for example github:allixsenos/asu#v0.3.0. Each GitHub release also carries the packed tarball, and npx --yes https://github.com/allixsenos/asu/releases/latest/download/asu.tgz --table runs the newest one.

We fetched the snapshot below on 2026-09-10 at 07:08 UTC from the maintainer's authenticated Claude, Codex, and GitHub Copilot accounts on Linux. These are real provider-reported figures, not fixtures or estimates. They become stale as usage changes.

The capture used the local checkout:

node dist/cli.js --provider claude,codex,copilot --fresh --no-cache --json

ASU's own renderers made the bars, the table, and the plain text below from that same JSON snapshot with --utc, so all four examples show identical data. The examples include no credentials and no account identifiers. All reset times are UTC.

Without --utc, the table and the plain text show reset, fetch, and expiry times relative to now, for example 2h30m or 45m. A time a day or more away also names the local calendar day, for example 7d (Tue 15 Sep). A reset time that already passed shows as now. JSON always contains the full UTC timestamps.

Use --bars for this view. It is the default in an interactive terminal. One bar per window, colored by severity in a terminal, with the countdown and the local clock after each bar. The bar shrinks in a narrow terminal, then the clock goes, and below that the default falls back to plain text.

ASU 0.7.0 Β· 2026-09-10T07:08:14.046Z

Claude Β· Max 20x Β· active Β· fresh
  5 hours         ━━━━━─────────────────────────   18%  resets 2026-09-10T09:30:00.000Z
  Weekly          ━━━━━━━───────────────────────   24%  resets 2026-09-15T05:00:00.000Z
  Weekly Β· Fable  ━━━━━─────────────────────────   18%  resets 2026-09-15T05:00:00.000Z
  Extra usage     Disabled
  fetched 2026-09-10T07:08:13.944Z Β· cache expires 2026-09-10T07:13:13.944Z

Codex Β· Plus Β· active Β· fresh
  5 hours               ──────────────────────────────    0%  resets 2026-09-10T12:08:13.000Z
  Weekly                ──────────────────────────────    0%  resets 2026-09-17T07:08:13.000Z
  Gpt Reserve Β· Weekly  ──────────────────────────────    0%  resets 2026-09-17T07:08:13.000Z
  Credits               0 credits left
  Credits available     No
  fetched 2026-09-10T07:08:14.004Z Β· cache expires 2026-09-10T07:13:14.004Z

GitHub Copilot Β· Individual Β· active Β· fresh
  Chat                  ──────────────────────────────    0%  resets 2026-10-01T00:00:00.000Z  0 / 200 requests
  Completions           ──────────────────────────────    0%  resets 2026-10-01T00:00:00.000Z  0 / 2,000 requests
  Premium Interactions  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━  100%  resets 2026-10-01T00:00:00.000Z  0 / 0 requests
  fetched 2026-09-10T07:08:14.045Z Β· cache expires 2026-09-10T07:13:14.045Z

Use --table for this view. When a cell would wrap, the default falls back to plain text. Pass --table to force the table.

ASU 0.7.0 Β· 2026-09-10T07:08:14.046Z
β”Œβ”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”¬β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”¬β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”¬β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”¬β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”
β”‚ Provider         β”‚ Plan / status      β”‚ Window / balance      β”‚ Usage                 β”‚ Resets (UTC)       β”‚
β”œβ”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”Όβ”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”Όβ”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”Όβ”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”Όβ”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€
β”‚ Claude           β”‚ Max 20x            β”‚ 5 hours               β”‚ 18% used              β”‚ 2026-09-10 09:30   β”‚
β”‚                  β”‚ active             β”‚                       β”‚                       β”‚                    β”‚
β”‚                  β”‚ fresh              β”‚                       β”‚                       β”‚                    β”‚
β”‚                  β”‚                    β”‚ Weekly                β”‚ 24% used              β”‚ 2026-09-15 05:00   β”‚
β”‚                  β”‚                    β”‚ Weekly Β· Fable        β”‚ 18% used              β”‚ 2026-09-15 05:00   β”‚
β”‚                  β”‚                    β”‚ Extra usage           β”‚ Disabled              β”‚ β€”                  β”‚
β”œβ”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”Όβ”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”Όβ”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”Όβ”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”Όβ”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€
β”‚ Codex            β”‚ Plus               β”‚ 5 hours               β”‚ 0% used               β”‚ 2026-09-10 12:08   β”‚
β”‚                  β”‚ active             β”‚                       β”‚                       β”‚                    β”‚
β”‚                  β”‚ fresh              β”‚                       β”‚                       β”‚                    β”‚
β”‚                  β”‚                    β”‚ Weekly                β”‚ 0% used               β”‚ 2026-09-17 07:08   β”‚
β”‚                  β”‚                    β”‚ Gpt Reserve Β· Weekly  β”‚ 0% used               β”‚ 2026-09-17 07:08   β”‚
β”‚                  β”‚                    β”‚ Credits               β”‚ 0 credits left        β”‚ β€”                  β”‚
β”‚                  β”‚                    β”‚ Credits available     β”‚ No                    β”‚ β€”                  β”‚
β”œβ”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”Όβ”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”Όβ”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”Όβ”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”Όβ”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€
β”‚ GitHub Copilot   β”‚ Individual         β”‚ Chat                  β”‚ 0% used               β”‚ 2026-10-01 00:00   β”‚
β”‚                  β”‚ active             β”‚                       β”‚ 0 / 200 requests      β”‚                    β”‚
β”‚                  β”‚ fresh              β”‚                       β”‚                       β”‚                    β”‚
β”‚                  β”‚                    β”‚ Completions           β”‚ 0% used               β”‚ 2026-10-01 00:00   β”‚
β”‚                  β”‚                    β”‚                       β”‚ 0 / 2,000 requests    β”‚                    β”‚
β”‚                  β”‚                    β”‚ Premium Interactions  β”‚ 100% used             β”‚ 2026-10-01 00:00   β”‚
β”‚                  β”‚                    β”‚                       β”‚ 0 / 0 requests        β”‚                    β”‚
β””β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”΄β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”΄β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”΄β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”΄β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”˜
Claude: fetched 2026-09-10T07:08:13.944Z; cache expires 2026-09-10T07:13:13.944Z.
Codex: fetched 2026-09-10T07:08:14.004Z; cache expires 2026-09-10T07:13:14.004Z.
GitHub Copilot: fetched 2026-09-10T07:08:14.045Z; cache expires 2026-09-10T07:13:14.045Z.

Read Copilot's premium row with care. The endpoint returned zero entitlement, zero remaining requests, and zero percent remaining. ASU therefore shows 100% used next to 0 / 0 requests. This does not show that anyone consumed a premium request. The internal endpoint can return legacy quota information. Treat its quantities as the provider's reported snapshot, not as a complete billing statement.

Use --plain for readable output in logs and pipes. It is the default when stdout is not a terminal.

Show the complete plain-text output #

ASU 0.7.0 Β· 2026-09-10T07:08:14.046Z

Claude (claude)
  active
  Plan: Max 20x
  5 hours: 18% used; resets 2026-09-10T09:30:00.000Z
  Weekly: 24% used; resets 2026-09-15T05:00:00.000Z
  Weekly Β· Fable: 18% used; resets 2026-09-15T05:00:00.000Z
  Extra usage: Disabled
  Fetched 2026-09-10T07:08:13.944Z; fresh; expires 2026-09-10T07:13:13.944Z

Codex (codex)
  active
  Plan: Plus
  5 hours: 0% used; resets 2026-09-10T12:08:13.000Z
  Weekly: 0% used; resets 2026-09-17T07:08:13.000Z
  Gpt Reserve Β· Weekly: 0% used; resets 2026-09-17T07:08:13.000Z
  Credits: 0 credits left
  Credits available: No
  Fetched 2026-09-10T07:08:14.004Z; fresh; expires 2026-09-10T07:13:14.004Z

GitHub Copilot (copilot)
  active
  Plan: Individual
  Chat: 0% used; 0 / 200 requests; resets 2026-10-01T00:00:00.000Z
  Completions: 0% used; 0 / 2,000 requests; resets 2026-10-01T00:00:00.000Z
  Premium Interactions: 100% used; 0 / 0 requests; resets 2026-10-01T00:00:00.000Z
  Fetched 2026-09-10T07:08:14.045Z; fresh; expires 2026-09-10T07:13:14.045Z

Use --json for agents and scripts. Stdout contains the report. An ASU invocation error goes to stderr. The human output rounds quantities to two decimal places and shows relative times. JSON keeps the normalized numeric precision and the full UTC timestamps.

Show the complete version 1 JSON report #

{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "asuVersion": "0.7.0",
  "generatedAt": "2026-09-10T07:08:14.046Z",
  "warnings": [],
  "providers": [
    {
      "planLabel": "Max 20x",
      "windows": [
        {
          "id": "five_hour",
          "label": "5 hours",
          "percentUsed": 18,
          "resetsAt": "2026-09-10T09:30:00.000Z"
        },
        {
          "id": "seven_day",
          "label": "Weekly",
          "percentUsed": 24,
          "resetsAt": "2026-09-15T05:00:00.000Z"
        },
        {
          "id": "weekly-model-fable",
          "label": "Weekly Β· Fable",
          "percentUsed": 18,
          "resetsAt": "2026-09-15T05:00:00.000Z",
          "scope": {
            "model": "Fable"
          }
        }
      ],
      "balances": [],
      "details": [
        {
          "label": "Extra usage",
          "value": "Disabled"
        }
      ],
      "providerId": "claude",
      "displayName": "Claude",
      "experimental": false,
      "installed": true,
      "credentialsPresent": true,
      "authenticated": true,
      "availability": "available",
      "reason": null,
      "fetchedAt": "2026-09-10T07:08:13.944Z",
      "expiresAt": "2026-09-10T07:13:13.944Z",
      "cached": false
    },
    {
      "planLabel": "Plus",
      "windows": [
        {
          "id": "usage-primary_window",
          "label": "5 hours",
          "percentUsed": 0,
          "resetsAt": "2026-09-10T12:08:13.000Z"
        },
        {
          "id": "usage-secondary_window",
          "label": "Weekly",
          "percentUsed": 0,
          "resetsAt": "2026-09-17T07:08:13.000Z"
        },
        {
          "id": "additional-0-gpt-reserve-primary_window",
          "label": "Gpt Reserve Β· Weekly",
          "percentUsed": 0,
          "resetsAt": "2026-09-17T07:08:13.000Z"
        }
      ],
      "balances": [
        {
          "id": "credits",
          "label": "Credits",
          "unit": "credits",
          "remaining": 0,
          "unlimited": false
        }
      ],
      "details": [
        {
          "label": "Credits available",
          "value": "No"
        }
      ],
      "providerId": "codex",
      "displayName": "Codex",
      "experimental": false,
      "installed": true,
      "credentialsPresent": true,
      "authenticated": true,
      "availability": "available",
      "reason": null,
      "fetchedAt": "2026-09-10T07:08:14.004Z",
      "expiresAt": "2026-09-10T07:13:14.004Z",
      "cached": false
    },
    {
      "planLabel": "Individual",
      "windows": [
        {
          "id": "chat",
          "label": "Chat",
          "percentUsed": 0,
          "resetsAt": "2026-10-01T00:00:00.000Z",
          "used": 0,
          "limit": 200,
          "unit": "requests",
          "unlimited": false
        },
        {
          "id": "completions",
          "label": "Completions",
          "percentUsed": 0,
          "resetsAt": "2026-10-01T00:00:00.000Z",
          "used": 0,
          "limit": 2000,
          "unit": "requests",
          "unlimited": false
        },
        {
          "id": "premium-interactions",
          "label": "Premium Interactions",
          "percentUsed": 100,
          "resetsAt": "2026-10-01T00:00:00.000Z",
          "used": 0,
          "limit": 0,
          "unit": "requests",
          "unlimited": false
        }
      ],
      "balances": [],
      "details": [],
      "providerId": "copilot",
      "displayName": "GitHub Copilot",
      "experimental": false,
      "installed": true,
      "credentialsPresent": true,
      "authenticated": true,
      "availability": "available",
      "reason": null,
      "fetchedAt": "2026-09-10T07:08:14.045Z",
      "expiresAt": "2026-09-10T07:13:14.045Z",
      "cached": false
    }
  ]
}
asu [usage] [provider...] [options]

When you run ASU through npx, put the ASU options after the package name.

Option Behavior
--format plain|table|bars|json Select one output format. Without it, a terminal gets the bars, or plain text when even the narrowest bar layout would wrap. A pipe gets plain text.
--bars ,--table ,--plain ,--json Shortcuts for --format . Use only one.
--utc Print full UTC timestamps in table and plain output instead of times relative to now, such as 2h30m or7d (Tue 15 Sep)
claude codex Select providers by their bare names, in any position. asu claude --plain andasu --plain claude are the same.
--provider claude,codex The same selection as a flag. Repeat the flag or separate the IDs with commas.
--all Include providers with no detected installation or credentials
--fresh Bypass cached usage. Concurrent fresh requests still share one fetch.
--no-cache Do not read or write the persistent cache
--cache-dir PATH Set the usage cache directory
--plugin PATH_OR_PACKAGE Load a trusted provider plugin that you name explicitly. Repeatable.
--help ,-h Show help
--version ,-v Print the package version

Without --all or --provider, ASU omits a provider that has no detected installation, no credentials, and no discovery error. Credentials can work even when the provider's executable is not on PATH. The table and the plain text show one status per provider: active when usage came back, not logged in when credentials are missing or rejected, not installed when neither credentials nor the provider's executable were found, and error when the request failed. JSON keeps installed, credentialsPresent, and authenticated as separate fields, where null means unknown.

Code Meaning
0 At least one selected provider returned available usage
1 No selected provider returned available usage. ASU still prints a report.
2 Invalid invocation or plugin configuration. ASU prints an error to stderr.

A zero exit code does not mean that every provider succeeded. When you automate ASU, examine the availability of each provider. Missing credentials, a timeout, or a malformed response from one provider does not discard the data of the other providers.

npx --yes @allixsenos/asu@latest --json > usage.json
jq '.providers[] | {providerId, availability, planLabel, windows}' usage.json

jq '[.providers[]
  | select(.availability == "available")
  | select(any(.windows[]; .percentUsed != null and .percentUsed >= 80))
  | .providerId]' usage.json

A consumer must examine schemaVersion before it processes a report. Version 1 includes:

Field Meaning
asuVersion The ASU package version that wrote the report. The plain and table headers show it too.
generatedAt ,warnings ,providers Report timestamp, shared warnings, and independent provider results
providerId ,displayName ,experimental Provider identity and live-validation status
installed ,credentialsPresent ,authenticated Separate discovery and authentication observations
availability ,reason available ,unavailable , orerror , with a reason code and a safe message when needed
planLabel Subscription label, or null if unknown
windows Variable-length usage windows with IDs, percentages, UTC resets, optional quantities, and model or surface scope
balances Reported credits or monetary balances with explicit units
details Additional normalized label and value pairs
fetchedAt ,expiresAt ,cached Timestamp and freshness of each provider snapshot

An unknown percentage or reset time is null. A missing quantity or balance does not mean zero. An unlimited allowance is explicit. A percentage can exceed 100 if a provider reports overage. Do not assume a fixed number or order of windows. See the report contract and the schemas for the full model. An agent that wants to watch its own budget can follow Use ASU from an agent. The asu-usage skill measures what one command costs, and npx skills add allixsenos/asu installs it.

ID Provider Credential sources, in precedence order Validation
claude Claude .credentials.json under$CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR ,$CLAUDE_HOME , or~/.claude . macOS Keychain fallback. Live account, Linux
codex Codex $CODEX_HOME/auth.json ,~/.config/codex/auth.json ,~/.codex/auth.json Live account, Linux
copilot GitHub Copilot COPILOT_TOKEN ,GITHUB_TOKEN ,GITHUB_PAT , GitHub CLIhosts.yml Live account, Linux
cursor Cursor CURSOR_ACCESS_TOKEN ,CURSOR_TOKEN , desktop SQLite,~/.config/cursor/auth.json Experimental. Fixture tests only.
zai Z.ai ZAI_API_KEY ,GLM_API_KEY Experimental. Fixture tests only.
grok Grok GROK_API_KEY ,GROK_TOKEN ,~/.grok/auth.json Experimental. Fixture tests only.
kimi Kimi KIMI_TOKEN ,KIMI_API_KEY , credentials under$KIMI_CODE_HOME or~/.kimi-code , legacy~/.kimi Experimental. Fixture tests only.
minimax MiniMax MINIMAX_API_KEY ,~/.mmx/credentials.json ,~/.mmx/config.json Experimental. Fixture tests only.

Only Claude Max 20x, Codex Plus, and GitHub Copilot Individual passed a check against the maintainer's live accounts. The other five adapters always return experimental: true, and the human output marks them. A passed fixture test does not prove a live subscription or every credential-store variant. The macOS and Windows paths have no live test.

Credential lookup details:

  • Claude reads claudeAiOauth.accessToken . On macOS it falls back to the Keychain serviceClaude Code-credentials . It tries the current user's account before the legacy service-only lookup.
  • Codex needs the OAuth tokens.access_token , with an optionaltokens.account_id . This adapter does not support API-key authentication or credentials that live only in the OS keyring.
  • Copilot obeys GH_CONFIG_DIR andXDG_CONFIG_HOME when it reads the GitHub CLI credentials. It does not read credentials that live only in the Copilot CLI's own store. An installedgh alone does not count as an installed Copilot CLI.
  • Cursor reads its desktop state.vscdb in read-only mode. It uses the platform locations, including macOS Application Support and WindowsAPPDATA . The Linux lookup obeysXDG_CONFIG_HOME .
  • Kimi's credential file is credentials/kimi-code.json under its configured or default home.
  • MiniMax supports MINIMAX_REGION=cn or a recognizedMINIMAX_BASE_URL . ASU rejects an arbitrary API destination.

The APIs include undocumented internal endpoints and can change. The request methods, schemas, primary sources, and limitations of each adapter are in provider contracts.

CLI options β†’ provider registry β†’ concurrent provider operations
                                      β”‚
                          read local credentials (read-only)
                                      β”‚
                       five-minute cache or provider usage API
                                      β”‚
                         normalize, validate, and redact
                                      β”‚
                            table / plain text / JSON

Each provider lives in its own file under src/providers/. The shared service handles deadlines, failure isolation, caching, and report validation. The renderers accept any number of windows or balances. All work happens in the local Node process. There is no dashboard, HTTP server, hosted backend, or telemetry.

ASU caches a result for five minutes, separately for each provider and credential identity. It selects the cache directory in this order:

  1. --cache-dir PATH
  2. $ASU_CACHE_DIR
  3. $XDG_CACHE_HOME/asu
  4. ~/.cache/asu

ASU reads the credentials on each invocation. A changed credential changes the cache key. Concurrent calls in one process share one fetch. Concurrent CLI invocations use file locks. ASU also caches an API failure. It examines missing, malformed, and locally expired credentials again on each invocation, without an API request.

Use --fresh to bypass an existing result after you solve a problem. Use --no-cache when ASU must not read or write the persistent cache. The report still includes the five-minute expiresAt of the snapshot when disk caching is off. ASU replaces an expired entry at the next lookup. It does not remove the old entries of unused accounts.

An HTTP request has an eight-second deadline, a one-MiB response limit, and no redirects. Each provider operation has a twelve-second deadline. A wait for the cache lock stops after about 32 seconds. When the cache fails, ASU fetches without persistence and adds a warning.

ASU reads existing credentials and sends them only to the provider endpoint of the adapter. It never refreshes a token, signs in, rewrites a provider file, runs the provider CLI to get usage, or estimates subscription consumption from conversation history. Missing or rejected credentials give an unavailable result. Sign in or refresh through the provider's own CLI.

Once a day, after the report, ASU asks the npm registry for its own newest version and prints one line on stderr when a newer one exists. The request carries only the package name, and the answer is kept in the cache directory. --no-cache, ASU_NO_UPDATE_CHECK=1, NO_UPDATE_NOTIFIER=1, or CI=true turns the check off. This is the only request ASU makes to anything other than a provider.

ASU prints and caches only normalized usage. It excludes tokens, refresh tokens, account IDs, and raw API errors. The cache uses private directory and file permissions on Unix, and SHA-256 filenames derived from the credential identity. A usage report still contains plan and account-usage information. The maintainer shared the examples above on purpose.

Symptom What to examine
GitHub says the repository is missing or access is denied Examine your Git access with git ls-remote https://github.com/allixsenos/asu.git HEAD . The SSH URL needs a GitHub SSH key.
The Git install fails during prepare Examine the Node version, the dependency-registry access, and whether npm permits build scripts. See the local checkout instructions below.
npx exits with code 1 and prints nothing, or npm 9 reportscould not determine executable to run npm 9 cannot run the nested install that a Git dependency with a build orprepare script needs throughnpx . ASU commitsdist/ and has neither script, so a current checkout does not hit this. Clear the npx cache withrm -rf ~/.npm/_npx and retry, or use the release tarball URL.
No supported agents or credentials detected Use --all , examine the credential sources above, and examine the home-directory overrides andPATH .
missing_credentials ,invalid_credentials , orunauthorized Sign in or refresh through the provider's CLI, then run ASU again with --fresh . A successful CLI login helps only if ASU supports its credential store.
credential_read_error Make sure that your current user can read the credential file or store.
timeout ,rate_limited , orhttp_error Examine the connectivity and the provider status. Wait before you retry after a rate limit. Use --fresh to bypass a cached failure.
invalid_response The provider may have a new response schema. See the known limitations .
Usage looks stale Examine fetchedAt andcached , then use--fresh . ASU cannot make the provider update its figures sooner.
One provider fails but the command exits with zero Exit code 0 means that at least one provider succeeded. Examine theavailability of each provider.
npx --yes @allixsenos/asu runs an old version npx reuses the first version it cached for a bare name and never looks again. Use @allixsenos/asu@latest , which resolves on every run, or remove the cache withrm -rf ~/.npm/_npx . ASU prints a one-line notice on stderr once a day when a newer version exists.

A provider is an ESM module with a unique ID, a version, and three operations: detect the installation, resolve the credentials, and fetch normalized usage. An adapter owns its credential format and its API contract. The shared service and the renderers stay provider-independent.

npx --yes @allixsenos/asu@latest --plugin ./my-provider.mjs --provider my-provider --json

A plugin can export default or provider. ASU resolves an installed package name from the current working directory. A plugin is local code that you load explicitly, and it has full access to the process. Load only modules that you trust. ASU does not download plugins and does not search for them. See the plugin contract and example for the details. The package also exports its service, schemas, and TypeScript types as a library.

gh repo clone allixsenos/asu
cd asu
npm ci

npm run compile
node dist/cli.js --table
node dist/cli.js --provider claude,codex,copilot --fresh --json

npm run check
npm test

The tests use synthetic API responses and temporary credential stores. They cover normalization, credential precedence and expiration, malformed responses, failure isolation, timeouts, cache expiry, concurrent requests, account changes, redaction, and real CLI subprocess output. They do not use your accounts and do not call provider APIs. Live verification is a separate step, as the snapshot above documents.

GitHub Actions runs the type checks, the tests, and a packed-package smoke test on Node 22 and 24. It also fails when the committed dist/ differs from a fresh build. To try the packed artifact locally without a publication:

npx --yes --package "./$(npm pack --silent)" asu --help
npx --yes --package "./$(npm pack --silent)" asu --table

Enable the commit-message hook of the repository and prefer rebase on pull:

git config core.hooksPath .githooks
git config pull.rebase true

Conventional Commits are mandatory. Prefer small, scoped commits and squash merges. Rebase merges are permitted, and merge commits are off. CLAUDE.md is a symlink to AGENTS.md, so Claude and other agents share the project instructions.

release-please writes CHANGELOG.md and creates each release from the commit history. Releasing describes the release pull request, the GitHub release with the packed tarball, and the npm publication.

Public repository under the MIT license. The release workflow publishes the package to the public npm registry. ASU has no telemetry and never will. See the security policy for what that means and how to report a vulnerability.

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