Trode
github.com/fernandezbaptiste/trode →You use Claude Code skills — but do you know which one is burning tokens the fastest?
WHAT IT SOLVES
Claude Code skills are powerful, but there's no built-in way to see which skills you're hammering and how many tokens each one consumes. Blind usage adds up — your billing page will teach you the hard way
WHY IT'S INTERESTING
Lives in your menu bar, not another CLI panel
The author didn't build yet another CLI you have to open in a separate terminal. It sits in your macOS menu bar — a glance tells you what's happening. That 'don't break my flow' instinct is rarer than you'd think in dev tools
Not just usage stats — skill evals included
The name says 'skill evals' and the repo ships .claude/tasks and a demo-project structure. This isn't just a token counter — it's attempting to help you judge which skills actually pull their weight. 5 stars, 28 commits, clearly still early and iterating
TECH GUESS
Native macOS menu bar app, likely Swift or Electron, pulling skill usage data from Claude Code's local state
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