claude-code - 💡(How to fix) Fix [v2.1.118] /usage redesign removed monthly usage visibility — this contradicts the transparency commitment [2 comments, 2 participants]

What changed

In v2.1.118 (April 23, 2026), /usage was redesigned. The previous display showed monthly usage percentage and time to quota replenish — the two numbers a paying customer actually needs to manage their relationship with this product.

Both were removed. Replaced with a 5-hour and 7-day rolling-window dashboard that does not answer the question "how much of what I'm paying for have I consumed this month."

Why this is a problem

This isn't a UI refresh. It's a deliberate transfer of visibility away from the customer and toward the vendor. Anthropic still has every byte of telemetry on my usage. I, as the paying customer, no longer have a way to see, in the tool I'm using, what I've spent.

The "workaround" — open a browser tab, log into the Console at platform.claude.com/usage — is not acceptable. The whole point of in-CLI usage tracking was that it surfaced the number where the work happens. Pushing it to a separate website, behind a separate login, is friction by design.

The mission-statement contradiction

Anthropic's public posture emphasizes transparency, honesty, and building AI that users can trust. Removing user-facing cost transparency from the tool — while the vendor retains full visibility — directly undermines that posture. You cannot claim transparency as a value while making your customers' own usage opaque to them.

What I want

1. Restore monthly usage percentage and time-to-replenish in /usage, or expose them via:
   • a CLI flag (claude --usage --monthly)
   • a statusline variable
   • an env var that opts into the legacy display
2. Document the change in the changelog with the actual reasoning, not just the version bump line.
3. Acknowledge that pulling a customer-facing metric without notice or substitute was a regression, not an improvement.

Context

I am a paying Max subscriber ($200/month). I would not have renewed at this tier if I'd known monthly usage visibility was going to be silently revoked. The trust cost of this change is larger than whatever engineering simplification motivated it.

This needs to be reverted or replaced with an equivalent in-CLI view. The Console URL is not an answer.

Shame.

You charge $200 a month and you hide the meter. You write "transparency" into your mission and then quietly delete the one display that gave it to your customers. There is no reading of this that flatters you.

I trusted this company. I don't anymore.