Show HN: CLI to budget Claude Code session costs

Category: cli-tool

Tags: cli-tool, token-tracking, budget-management

Score: 5.8/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 5, Documentation: 7, Utility: 6)

Tokenyst is a lightweight CLI tool that tracks token usage and API costs for Claude Code sessions, enabling budget management for AI development. It integrates seamlessly by spawning Claude Code with automatic cost calculation and local-first storage, which is interesting for developers managing API spending in real-time.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, ai developers

Repository: https://github.com/jher7/tokenyst · TypeScript · MIT

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