Why a status line is not monitoring
A CLI /usage or /status check answers the next five minutes. It does not tell you that Claude ate the morning and Codex will hit a weekly cap before standup tomorrow.
Monitoring means the numbers stay up without you polling them. UsageAtlas keeps supported windows and local activity in a dashboard, then fires one desktop notification at the threshold you set.
Watch the stack, not one vendor
If you bounce between tools, a Codex-only meter lies by omission. The combined total is the one that matches how the day actually felt.
Filter to one source when you are debugging a single plan. Open it back up when you want the whole picture. See Claude Code and Codex together if that is the split you run.
Questions, answered
Is this an AI coding usage monitor?
Yes. UsageAtlas is a local desktop monitor for supported coding tools: live windows, history, estimated cost, and alerts.
Will it nag me all afternoon?
No. Each usage window gets one desktop alert per reset cycle, at the remaining-capacity threshold you choose.
Do I need another account?
No. It uses the tools already signed in on this computer.