Show HN: CC Meter, a Windows Tray Gauge for Claude Code and Codex Limits

CC Meter is a Windows system tray gauge for tracking Claude Code and Codex usage limits. The project is open source on GitHub under silverdolphin863/claude-code-meter and was posted as a Show HN on Hacker News, where it had 1 point and 1 comment at the time of the submission snapshot.

As a tray gauge, CC Meter sits in the Windows notification area and is aimed at live visibility of rate or quota ceilings for Claude Code and Codex rather than buried account pages or CLI status checks. The repo name and Show HN framing present it as a small, always-on monitor for those two AI coding surfaces, not a full IDE plugin or cloud dashboard.

For engineers who run Claude Code or Codex in long local sessions, limit exhaustion is a hard stop mid-task. A tray gauge is meant to surface remaining headroom before a request fails, so builders can pace prompts, switch models, or pause work instead of discovering the cap only after an error.

In the Claude Code and Codex tooling stack, usage controls usually live in vendor UIs, account settings, or terminal output. CC Meter targets the Windows desktop path specifically: a tray-resident gauge rather than another web console or shell wrapper, which positions it next to other lightweight OS-native monitors rather than heavier coding assistants.

If you use Claude Code or Codex on Windows, the practical next step is the GitHub repo at silverdolphin863/claude-code-meter: install and confirm it matches the limits you actually hit, then watch whether the Show HN thread grows beyond its early 1-point, 1-comment state and whether the author documents which limits the gauge reads and how often it refreshes.