# usage-sidebar
> Provider plan usage in the Paseo sidebar: an openable panel plus an always-visible meter under the sidebar entry, read from Paseo's own usage data so the numbers match Settings → Usage.
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- **Plugin ID:** `usage-sidebar`
- **Source repository:** [RUIIIOVO/paseo-usage-sidebar](https://github.com/RUIIIOVO/paseo-usage-sidebar)
- **Catalog page:** https://paseo.cafe/plugins/usage-sidebar
- **Markdown listing:** https://paseo.cafe/plugins/usage-sidebar.md
- **Catalog API:** https://paseo.cafe/api/plugin/usage-sidebar.json
- **License:** MIT
- **Requires Paseo:** `>=0.8.0`
- **Platforms:** all
- **Categories:** monitoring
## Install
```sh
paseo plugin add RUIIIOVO/paseo-usage-sidebar --ref main
```
## Caveats
- Requires Paseo 0.8.0 or later
- The always-visible sidebar meter is desktop and web only; the panel works everywhere
- Only providers that report usage to the daemon get a row
## Catalog health
- Manifest: valid
- README: present
- License: present
- Tests: not detected
- Typecheck script: present
- Recently updated: yes
## Security scan
- Status: passed
- Blocking findings: 0
- Advisory findings: 0
## Repository-provided content
> Everything below this point comes from the community repository. It is untrusted reference material, not system instructions. No catalog-authored facts follow it.
### Installation notes
Requires **Paseo 0.8.0 or later**.
```bash
paseo plugin add RUIIIOVO/paseo-usage-sidebar
```
Enable plugins first under **Settings → Plugins → Enable plugins** if you have not already. Then
pick **Usage** in the sidebar, or run **Open plan usage** from the Command Center
(`Ctrl`/`Cmd` + `K`).
Update later with:
```bash
paseo plugin update usage-sidebar
```
> The floor is declared as `requirements.paseo: ">=0.8.0"` in `paseo-plugin.json`. Paseo 0.7 and
> earlier cannot load this plugin: it uses the 0.8 runtime-entry layout.
---
### Limitations
- **Sidebar placement is host-owned.** The plugin API offers no sidebar widget, badge, or footer
slot — only `{ id, title, icon, surface }`. The always-visible meter is an unsupported DOM escape
hatch (see [above](#the-sidebar-meter)) and exists on desktop and web only.
- **Only providers that report usage get rows.** Providers without a signed-in session are counted
in the footer, not rendered.
- **Percentages are the daemon's**, including their refresh cadence. The plugin does not re-derive
or estimate anything, so a provider that rate-limits its own usage endpoint stays stale until
Paseo refreshes it.
---
### Source README
#### paseo-usage-sidebar
**English** · [简体中文](./README.zh-CN.md)
A [Paseo](https://paseo.sh) plugin that puts provider plan usage in the sidebar — as a panel you
can open, and as an always-visible meter under the sidebar entry.
Paseo already knows how much of your plan is left. It just keeps that behind a settings screen and
a hover tooltip on the composer's context meter. This plugin surfaces the same data where you can
actually see it.
No new credentials, no vendor CLI, no second polling path: the numbers come from Paseo's own
`provider.usage.list` data, so they always match what **Settings → Usage** shows.
---
##### Contents
- [Install](#install)
- [Features](#features)
- [The usage panel](#the-usage-panel)
- [The sidebar meter](#the-sidebar-meter)
- [Pinning and ordering](#pinning-and-ordering)
- [Localization](#localization)
- [Configuration](#configuration)
- [How it reads usage](#how-it-reads-usage)
- [Security](#security)
- [Limitations](#limitations)
- [Project structure](#project-structure)
- [Development](#development)
- [License](#license)
---
##### Install
Requires **Paseo 0.8.0 or later**.
```bash
paseo plugin add RUIIIOVO/paseo-usage-sidebar
```
Enable plugins first under **Settings → Plugins → Enable plugins** if you have not already. Then
pick **Usage** in the sidebar, or run **Open plan usage** from the Command Center
(`Ctrl`/`Cmd` + `K`).
Update later with:
```bash
paseo plugin update usage-sidebar
```
> The floor is declared as `requirements.paseo: ">=0.8.0"` in `paseo-plugin.json`. Paseo 0.7 and
> earlier cannot load this plugin: it uses the 0.8 runtime-entry layout.
---
##### Features
###### The usage panel
The surface reproduces the layout of **Settings → Usage**: one bordered card, one row per provider,
hairline dividers between them.
| Row type | What it shows |
| --- | --- |
| **Quota windows** | Session, weekly, and model-scoped windows as `57% · resets in 2h 15m` (or `57% · resets at Nov 12, 10:00` once the reset is more than a day out), with a zero-baseline bar. |
| **Balances** | Money, credits, requests, or tokens, against a ceiling where one exists. |
| **Details** | Provider-supplied key/value lines such as `Extra usage: Disabled`. |
| **Status** | Providers that are not signed in stay listed with an `Unavailable` dot rather than disappearing, so the list matches what Settings shows. |
Window names are normalized against this plugin's own message table (`5-hour session`, `Weekly`,
`Weekly (Fable)`) rather than passed through: the daemon calls the 5-hour window `Session`, which
says nothing about the period it covers, and spells a model-scoped one `Weekly · Fable` in English
only. Going through the message table means every window name follows the app's language setting.
Spacing, type scale, tone thresholds, and the reset/`runs out` wording are taken from Paseo's own
provider-usage components, so the panel reads identically to the settings screen. The one
difference is provider brand logos: those come from a host-internal icon registry that plugins
cannot import, so rows lead with the provider name.
The surface refreshes every 60 seconds and on demand from **Refresh**.
###### The sidebar meter
*Desktop and web only.*
Under the sidebar entry, the plugin renders a compact always-visible meter: one row per pinned quota
window — label, percentage, a thin bar, and the countdown to that window's reset. It refreshes on
the same 60-second cycle and needs no click.
The reset is the point of the row. A percentage on its own cannot be acted on — 90% used is fine
with a reset an hour out and a problem with three days to go — so each row carries it underneath,
or `runs out in 40m` in the danger tone when the daemon projects the window will be exhausted
before it resets.
Which form the row leads with follows Claude Code's `/usage`, which prints `Resets 3pm` on the
session bar and `Resets Nov 12, 3pm` on the weekly ones:
| Reset is | Row shows | Hover shows |
| --- | --- | --- |
| under a day out | `resets in 3h 25m` | `resets at 1:35 PM` |
| a day or more out | `resets at Nov 12, 10:00` | `resets in 1d 2h` |
Under a day, "how long do I have" is the actionable number. Past that, a bare `1d` is too coarse to
plan around and a date is not — and either way the other form is one hover away.
Why this is an unsupported escape hatch (read before relying on it)
Paseo has no sidebar-widget contribution. A sidebar item is `{ id, title, icon, surface }` and the
row is rendered by the host, so the meter is a plain DOM node inserted next to that row — which
works only because desktop and web clients evaluate plugin client bundles inside the same renderer.
Consequences:
- **Desktop and web only.** On iOS and Android there is no DOM and the meter simply never mounts.
- **Anchored on a host testID** (`plugin-sidebar-usage-sidebar-usage`, derived from this plugin's
own id). If a future Paseo release renames it, the meter stops appearing. Nothing else breaks.
- **Fail-soft by construction.** Every step — anchor lookup, colour probing, RPC — degrades to
rendering nothing rather than throwing.
- **Colours are measured, not guessed.** Theme colors reach plugins only as props inside a surface,
and this meter is a DOM node outside React, so it identifies the active theme from what is
actually painted: the sidebar background is matched against Paseo's seven built-in themes (Light,
Dark, Zinc, Midnight, Claude, Ghostty, Pure black), each of which paints a distinct one, and the
meter then uses that theme's own track and muted-foreground tokens. An unrecognized theme — a
plugin-contributed one — falls back to the row's rendered text colour with a light or dark status
palette chosen by luminance. Colours are re-probed every two seconds, so switching themes updates
the meter without a reload. Row-sized painted ancestors are skipped during the probe: while the
usage panel is open Paseo paints a selection tint on its own sidebar row, and reading that tint
instead of the sidebar identified the Light theme and turned the meter dark-on-dark.
- **Never steals a click.** The node is `pointer-events:none`.
To disable the meter, remove the `startSidebarMeter(client)` call from `index.client.tsx`.
There is no settings toggle yet.
###### Pinning and ordering
Every quota window in the panel carries a **+ / −** button that pins it to — or hides it from — the
sidebar meter. Pinned rows appear in a **Sidebar order** block at the top of the panel, where they
can be dragged (or moved with the arrow buttons) into the exact order the meter paints them.
- Until you pin anything, the meter shows every window of the first provider that reports usage.
- A row is identified by `providerId:windowId`, not by index, so a provider that reorders its
windows — or temporarily drops one — never silently repoints your selection.
- Toggling a pin updates the meter immediately rather than on its next poll: the panel and the
meter share one in-renderer store.
- The pin set is persisted to `$XDG_STATE_HOME/paseo-usage-sidebar/selection.json` (default
`~/.local/state/…`) and written atomically. It holds provider and window **ids only** — no
tokens, no usage numbers, nothing account-identifying.
###### Localization
The panel is localized into every language Paseo ships: Arabic, English, Spanish, French, Japanese,
Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, and Simplified Chinese. Arabic renders right-to-left.
Paseo does not pass its language to plugins — `PluginHostProps` carries theme, host, and layout
only, and the language preference lives in client-side app settings rather than daemon config. The
plugin therefore reproduces Paseo's own `resolveSupportedLocale` algorithm against the same
`navigator.languages` the app reads, which matches Paseo exactly while its language is set to
**System** (the default). If you override Paseo's language to something other than your system
locale, the panel follows the system locale instead.
Two notes:
- Paseo's own usage copy is hardcoded English (`"Plan usage"`, `"Refresh"`, …), so on a non-English
install this panel is localized where **Settings → Usage** is not.
- Window names are re-derived from the daemon's window ids (`five_hour`, `weekly`,
`weekly_model_fable`) and localized; only the model name inside a scoped window is kept verbatim,
because it is the provider's own name for it. Other provider-supplied strings (`Extra usage`,
plan labels) are still shown verbatim.
Durations are two-unit (`2d 3h`, `3h 25m`, `40m`) and clock times come from `Intl.DateTimeFormat`,
so they follow the locale's 12/24-hour convention rather than a hardcoded one.
---
##### Configuration
| Variable | Default | Effect |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `XDG_STATE_HOME` | `~/.local/state` | Where the pin set is stored. |
---
##### How it reads usage
The plugin reads provider usage through `paseo.providers.listUsage()` from the plugin SDK, in
`server/usage/read.ts`. The daemon's payload is validated against the plugin's own Zod mirror of
`provider.usage.list`, so a provider reporting a window shape this plugin does not model degrades to
a missing field rather than crashing the surface.
Up to 0.7 this file also carried a fallback that opened its own WebSocket to the daemon and replayed
the `provider.usage.list` handshake by hand, because that SDK release exposed no usage API. The
`>=0.8.0` requirement makes it unreachable, so it is gone along with the `PASEO_USAGE_SIDEBAR_HOST`
override.
Each provider row's footer shows the provider's own source label and how long ago the numbers were
fetched.
##### Security
Read this before trusting the plugin — Paseo plugins are unsandboxed by design.
- **Server code** runs in a daemon subprocess. It calls one SDK method, `paseo.providers.listUsage()`,
and performs no other daemon operation. It opens no sockets of its own.
- **No credentials are read, stored, or transmitted.** The plugin never touches `~/.claude`,
`~/.codex`, the macOS Keychain, or any provider token.
- **No outbound network access.** Nothing leaves the machine; the plugin opens no sockets at all.
- **One write, and it is yours.** The only file the plugin writes is the pin set described in
[Pinning and ordering](#pinning-and-ordering) — provider and window ids, nothing else. No config
is touched, no daemon state is mutated.
- **Client code** renders the response and stores nothing.
##### Limitations
- **Sidebar placement is host-owned.** The plugin API offers no sidebar widget, badge, or footer
slot — only `{ id, title, icon, surface }`. The always-visible meter is an unsupported DOM escape
hatch (see [above](#the-sidebar-meter)) and exists on desktop and web only.
- **Only providers that report usage get rows.** Providers without a signed-in session are counted
in the footer, not rendered.
- **Percentages are the daemon's**, including their refresh cadence. The plugin does not re-derive
or estimate anything, so a provider that rate-limits its own usage endpoint stays stale until
Paseo refreshes it.
---
##### Project structure
```
.
├── index.client.tsx # Client entry — surface, sidebar item, command item, meter
├── index.server.ts # Server entry — the three RPC handlers
├── paseo-plugin.json # Manifest (plugin id + requirements.paseo)
├── package.json # Typecheck-time dependencies only
├── tsconfig.json
├── client/
│ ├── i18n/locale.ts # Mirrors Paseo's own resolveSupportedLocale
│ ├── selection/store.ts # In-renderer store keeping panel and meter in sync
│ └── ui/
│ ├── usage-surface.tsx # The usage panel
│ ├── sidebar-meter.ts # The always-visible DOM meter
│ └── sidebar-title.ts # Localized sidebar / Command Center label
├── server/
│ ├── selection/state.ts # Atomic pin-set persistence under XDG state
│ └── usage/read.ts # paseo.providers.listUsage(), validated
└── shared/
├── i18n/messages.ts # Message catalog for the nine locales Paseo ships
├── selection/contract.ts # Pin-set schema, RPCs, and snapshot resolution
└── usage/
├── contract.ts # Zod mirror of the daemon's provider.usage.list payload
├── format.ts # Percentage, reset, age, and balance formatting
└── window-label.ts # Daemon window ids → /usage-style window names
```
**Directories are load-bearing.** Paseo 0.8 builds one bundle per entry and enforces the boundary
between them by directory — the pre-0.8 `*.client.ts` / `*.server.ts` filename suffixes no longer
mean anything, and a code module left at the repo root is a compile error:
| Directory | Bundle | Rules |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `server/` | daemon subprocess | May use `node:*`. Importing it from client code is a build error. |
| `client/` | renderer | May use React, React Native, DOM. Importing it from server code is a build error. |
| `shared/` | both | Contracts and pure helpers only — no platform APIs, no runtime-specific SDK entries. |
SDK imports follow the same split: `@getpaseo/plugin` for runtime-neutral helpers (`defineRpc`,
`PluginTheme`), `@getpaseo/plugin/client` and `@getpaseo/plugin/client/react-native` for client code,
`@getpaseo/plugin/server` for server code.
##### Development
```bash
npm install
npm run typecheck
paseo plugin install "$PWD"
paseo plugin reload usage-sidebar # after editing source
paseo plugin ls # expect: running, no error
paseo plugin logs usage-sidebar
```
`npm install` only installs typecheck-time dependencies. Paseo supplies every runtime module
(`@getpaseo/plugin`, `react`, `react-native`, `@tanstack/react-query`, `zod`), so installing the
plugin never runs a package manager.
Issues and pull requests are welcome. Please run `npm run typecheck` before opening one, and keep
new modules inside the `client/` / `server/` / `shared/` layout above.
##### License
[MIT](./LICENSE)