meetmaxx.co• Jul 17, 2026• 1 min read
Show HN: Maxx – Live token tracker in the cli (Claude)Token management is a big deal when you have client projects to deliver. I need to have a pulse on what my current burn looks like, especially because I am spawning a bunch of subagents.Agents need to know in real-time what the current utilization is. I went through 10 iterations of this tool - and likely going to do a number of more iterations. The net net is that I needed something to show me if I am on pace to use the tokens alloted to my subscription.Using up the session (maxxing out my session) is not the right way because you run out of tokens by Wednesday at 6pm roughly. So how do you tell your agents that are running in the middle of the night to "not use too many tokens"?So the solution I found was a 5hr ROLLING window. Tokens are allocated across the 7 day period as if they were in chunks. Say 100k tokens an hour for easy math.500k tokens per session, 10 sessions left in the period. 5M tokens remain.Now - the software updates each second. Based on your usage in the window, yo