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Claude Code and Codex both report token usage in their transcripts, and both report the same spend more than once. Adding up every usage block a transcript contains is wrong in two different ways. Claude Code writes one API response as several JSONL lines, one per content block, and every line repeats the same message.usage. Summing them overstates total tokens by about 1.8x on real transcripts (733,601,501 summed against 408,312,692 deduplicated over eight local sessions). Deduplicating on requestId plus message.id fixes it. Codex reports each response twice, as a token_usage_record line and as an event_msg/token_count line, and the token_count event carries total_token_usage, which is cumulative for the session. Summing the cumulative field grows quadratically and sails past the context window. So pick one source per transcript: the per-response records when the file has any, otherwise the newest cumulative value, which needs no summing. The two providers also disagree silently about what input_tokens means. Claude's excludes both cache figures; Codex's includes the cached prompt as a subset. Mapping both onto one field overstates Codex's uncached input by nearly the whole prompt. ChatTokenUsage stores fresh, cache-read and cache-write input separately, and each extractor converts into that shape. No UI and no pricing. Converting tokens to money needs a per-model price table, an answer for subscription plans and a staleness policy, which are product decisions, so this stops at counts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ClaudeTranscript
participant CodexTranscript
participant ChatUsageAccumulator
participant ChatUsageTotals
ClaudeTranscript->>ChatUsageAccumulator: Claude transcript lines
CodexTranscript->>ChatUsageAccumulator: Codex transcript lines
ChatUsageAccumulator->>ChatUsageTotals: normalized usage and report metadata
Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to This change adds token accounting for Claude and Codex transcripts, with no UI or protocol changes. The earlier arithmetic overflow concern has been fixed, and no outstanding issues block merging. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The new accounting API does not appear to control access, spending, or provider execution. Its totals have documented accuracy limits, and the review did not establish that they are used for a security-sensitive decision. Retained concerns Security review detailsSecurity Blast Radius
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Claude Code writes client-side assistant messages (API errors, interrupts) with model <synthetic> and all-zero usage. They are not API responses, so they should not raise the response count or add a <synthetic> entry to the per-model split. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Self-review of the head diff (correctness first), checked against local Claude Code and Codex transcripts. Fixed (72bdab4):
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Review of the first pass found two counting bugs on the paths that carry most real transcripts. The Codex cumulative fallback took the maximum `total_token_usage` it saw. That field counts from the start of a thread, and one rollout holds several: a compaction, a `/new` or a subagent turn restarts it, with no thread id in the payload to separate the runs. On a rollout with three threads the maximum reports the largest single thread. The count is now read as a sequence of monotone runs: a drop banks the run that just ended and starts a new one, and the total is every banked run plus the current one. Claude's per-identity deduplication kept the first report. While a response streams, its early lines carry a placeholder output count and only the last line carries what it generated, so the first copy can say 2 output tokens for a response that generated 6,513 and drop its reasoning tokens entirely. The largest report now wins, folded in as a delta so reading `totals` stays independent of how many lines were fed in. Also from the review: - A usage block with no count key this parser recognizes now counts in `unidentifiedReports` instead of reading as a response that cost nothing. That also stops an unreadable `token_usage_record` from taking over as the source and zeroing a session already accounted for by the events. - `TranscriptJSONValue.int` trapped on a number outside `Int`'s range. Transcripts come from remote and cloud hosts, so `1e30` in a count field is untrusted input; it now answers nil. - Context occupancy reads `last_token_usage.total_tokens` rather than its input alone. The output of the last call is in the window too, because it is the prefix of the next prompt, and the total is the figure Codex itself shows. - `ChatUsageRateLimit` carries the secondary window and `spend_control_reached`. Codex sends a five-hour primary and a weekly secondary, and the weekly one is what actually stops a day of work; showing the primary alone reads "12% used" at 96% of the week. `tightestWindow` picks the one to show. - Claude's `<synthetic>` messages had no API call behind them, so they are no longer counted as responses or given a row in the model split. - Documented that one accumulator holds one transcript, corrected the type doc's claim that the cumulative value needs no summing, and corrected the `usageByModel` comment: a record that arrives before the first `turn_context` also leaves the split short of the total. Tests go from 22 to 32. The record-sum test no longer builds the provider's cumulative figure out of the per-response numbers it checks, so it is an independent check again. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…w fixes # Conflicts: # Packages/Shared/CmuxAgentChat/Sources/CmuxAgentChat/Parsing/ChatUsageAccumulator.swift
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Review (subagent, correctness first): 10 findings, 2 blocking. All 10 are fixed in 3135050 and merged with the branch's catch-up merge in 60edd7b. Fixed:
Also: the "strongest available check" test built the provider's cumulative figure out of the per-response numbers it was checking, so it proved nothing. It now uses the figure read off the same rollout as an independent constant. Left:
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The iOS package convention guard failed on this branch with two violations,
both the same helper: `saturatedSum` was declared as a private free function in
ChatTokenUsage.swift and again in ChatUsageAccumulator.swift. The guard wants
functionality scoped to a type, and the duplicate was going to drift anyway.
It becomes one internal static method on ChatTokenUsage, which is the type whose
arithmetic it protects, and the accumulator calls it there. No behavior change:
the body is identical and both copies were already identical.
Verified with scripts/lint-ios-package-conventions.sh, whose free-function
section is now empty ("OK: no unjustified convention violations"). The package
cannot build on Linux (it imports Darwin), so the type check is CI's on macOS.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A review of the usage-hardening commits found that record mode had stopped reporting what its records said. `codexRecordUsageSinceTransition` was reset once, at the transition, and then incremented at the same site as `codexRecordUsage`, so the two were provably equal and the baseline reduced to `cumulativeTotal - recordUsage`. The total therefore equalled `total_token_usage` exactly, and the per-response records stopped affecting it. That matters because `total_token_usage` is a thread figure, not a transcript one: it survives a fork and a compaction, so a delegated rollout opens with its parent's lifetime spend. Callers sum one accumulator per transcript, so the parent was being counted again in every child. A real rollout on this machine opens at 1,090,320,069 cumulative tokens beside a 29,114-token last call. Records are precise, so they now replace the cumulative reading instead of adding to it, and cumulative events are not read at all once records appear. A cumulative prefix before the first record is dropped: that understates by the handful of tokens spent before the first record, where keeping it overstates by orders of magnitude, and understating is the safe direction. Not reading the stream in record mode also makes a re-read of the same file idempotent, which it was not while replayed monotone runs banked twice, and restores `unidentifiedReports` to meaning the total is short. Same harness, before and after, on the forked-thread input: 1,090,345,709 then 25,640, where the transcript spent 25,640. The saturating arithmetic, the `TranscriptJSONValue.integer` case, the `codexUsage` subtraction rewrite and the file split are all kept. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Two blocking accounting findings remain on exact head eb2ff920973c:
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token_usage_recordfreezes the precedingtotal_token_usageand adds it to all precise response records. Real delegated/forked Codex rollouts can begin with a parent thread's lifetime cumulative snapshot; per-transcript callers then count that parent total again in each child. Once precise records appear, discard the cumulative prefix unless a structured source proves it belongs only to this transcript. compactedis treated as a cumulative reset boundary, but Codex'stotal_token_usagecontinues across compaction. Banking atcompactedand then adding the next lifetime snapshot double-counts all prior usage. Only bank on a proven accounting identity/reset boundary (session/thread change or explicit provider reset), not compaction.
The current regression expecting a ~1.09B inherited prefix plus a 25,640-token child response demonstrates the first overcount rather than preventing it. Please update the contract and tests before merge.
— Mochi
This reverts commit 9a9f104.
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Updated onto current main with the cumulative-usage reset protections and sticky ambiguity regressions intact. The accumulator now rejects component resets even when the total rises, for both inherited and ordinary cumulative streams, and preserves ambiguity through record takeover. Validation after the main merge: CmuxAgentChat passed 346 Swift Testing tests plus 10 XCTest tests; diff checks are clean. — Mochi |
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4e0f7d2 fix(bash): keep $? for PROMPT_COMMAND hooks after cmux's (manaflow-ai#15255) ae49bf5 fix(examples): show custom description in Project Worktrees sidebar (manaflow-ai#15256) a9a229d Add cross-provider token usage accounting for agent transcripts (manaflow-ai#15332) 860619f Add a .worktreeinclude reader for seeding new worktrees (manaflow-ai#15413) 3edbd83 Clear the stale Needs input badge when Claude's permission is decided in the terminal (manaflow-ai#15170) 9ed9294 CodeRouter: hold capacity errors on the same model instead of failing fast (manaflow-ai#15310) 56d4547 docs: add a front door for outside contributors (manaflow-ai#15263) 799f906 fix(ci): recognize GUI token acquisition failures (manaflow-ai#15449) f118d43 ci: age parked builds by measured reuse distance (manaflow-ai#15616) 1f6744d ci: harden overflow switch recovery (manaflow-ai#15617) 9987778 Predicted echo: remote terminals only, withdraw on pasted and sent input (manaflow-ai#15211) d9e199b Subtle selection follow-ups: group header hairline, no focus re-render for legacy rows, cmux.json test (manaflow-ai#15195) c13afe1 test: cover UTF-8 workspace create commands (manaflow-ai#15622) e76a660 fix: preserve Claude remote-control names on restore (manaflow-ai#15619) 900f248 feat: expose cmux-owned scratch metadata in session listing (manaflow-ai#15615) b5604fa ci: say why compiled-product reuse refused an artifact (manaflow-ai#15553) # Conflicts: # .github/workflows/ci-cloud-overflow-probe.yml
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What this is
Normalized token accounting for agent transcripts, as logic only. No UI, no
socket verb, no pricing. It is the piece every "how much did this session
cost" surface needs first, and the part that is easy to get quietly wrong.
ChatUsageAccumulatortakes Claude Code transcript lines or Codex rolloutlines, in order, incrementally, and produces a
ChatUsageTotals.Why this is not a sum
Both providers report the same spend more than once. Adding up every usage
block in a transcript overstates it, and the two shapes of repetition are
different.
Claude Code repeats one response across its content blocks. An assistant
turn that thinks, writes text and calls two tools is written as several JSONL
lines, and each one carries the same
message.usage, the samemessage.idand the same
requestId. Measured over eight local sessions, summing everyblock gives 733,601,501 tokens where the deduplicated figure is 408,312,692.
That is a 1.80x overstatement, and it is not a constant factor: it scales with
how tool-heavy the session was, so it cannot be corrected after the fact.
Deduplicating on
requestIdplusmessage.idis what makes the number meansomething.
Codex reports every response twice, in two record types. A
token_usage_recordline and anevent_msg/token_countline carry thesame counts at different ordinals. On top of that, the
token_counteventcarries
total_token_usage, which is cumulative for the session, right besidelast_token_usage, which is only the most recent call. Summing the cumulativefield grows quadratically. In one ordinary session it ends at 389,684 tokens
against a 258,400 token context window, so it is neither summable nor an
occupancy figure.
The accumulator therefore picks one Codex source per transcript:
token_usage_recordwhen the file has any, otherwise the cumulative events.codexSourcereports which one was used, because the cumulative fallbackcannot be attributed per response or per model.
The fallback is not the largest value reported either.
total_token_usagecounts from the start of a thread, and one rollout holds several: a
compaction, a
/newor a subagent turn restarts the count, and the payloadcarries no thread id to separate the runs by. So the field is read as a
sequence of monotone runs. Each drop banks the run that just ended and starts
a new one, and the total is every banked run plus the current one. On one
measured rollout the runs sum to 1,225,122,320 tokens where the maximum alone
says 759,171,291 and the final value says 240,832,997.
The input_tokens trap
The providers disagree about what "input tokens" means, and the disagreement
is silent: both write a key spelled
input_tokensand the two keys meandifferent things.
input_tokenscache_read_input_tokens, beside itcached_input_tokens, a subset of itinput_tokens + output_tokensMapping both onto one field overstates Codex's uncached input by almost the
entire cached prompt. One measured Codex response:
input_tokens28,202 withcached_input_tokens27,904, so the uncached input is 298, not 28,202.ChatTokenUsagestoresfreshInputTokens,cacheReadTokensandcacheWriteTokensseparately and each extractor converts into that shape, sothe two providers become comparable.
reasoningOutputTokensis stored as abreakdown of
outputTokens, never an addend, because both providers alreadycount reasoning inside their output total.
Deliberate choices
Undercount, never overcount. A usage block with no response identity
cannot be deduplicated. Counting it risks the same overstatement the type
exists to prevent, so it is skipped and surfaced as
unidentifiedReports.A usage block carrying no count key this parser recognizes is treated the
same way, because reading it as zero would be indistinguishable from a cheap
turn. In practice both stay zero. It is not a general format alarm: a
provider that renames only some count keys, or adds a new kind of token,
leaves the counter at zero and quietly undercounts.
Subagent tokens count. Unlike
ClaudeTranscriptParser, which skipssidechain lines because they do not belong in the conversation view, this
counts them. A subagent's tokens are spent tokens. They are hidden from the
transcript view, not from the bill.
Context occupancy comes from the last call, not the total. Codex's
last_token_usage.total_tokensis what is sitting in the window: the lastprompt plus what the model generated, which is the prefix of the next prompt.
total_token_usageis the session's running total and routinely exceeds thewindow, so reading occupancy from it reports a context several times full.
No dollars.
ChatUsageTotalsstops at counts. Money needs a per-modelprice table, an answer for subscription plans where per-token prices do not
apply, and a policy for how stale a bundled table may get. Those are product
decisions. Codex also reports allowance headroom directly, in
rate_limits, which is surfaced asChatUsageRateLimit. Both windows arecarried: the five-hour
primaryand the weeklysecondary, plusspend_control_reached. The weekly one is usually what stops a day of work,so
tightestWindowpicks the one a caller showing a single number shouldshow; the primary alone reads "12% used" on a session at 96% of its week.
Claude Code puts no limit state in its transcript, so the field stays
nilfor Claude rather than reporting a zero it cannot back up.
Tests
32 tests in
ChatUsageAccumulatorTests, built from observed transcriptshapes rather than invented ones. The ones that matter:
duplicateReports == 3requestIdstay two responses90,000 and the last value says 1,000
a response that generated 6,513 tokens is not recorded as 2
input_tokens28,202 with 27,904 cached yields 298 fresh, and thederived total matches the provider's own
total_tokensrunning total, read off the same rollout and not computed from the
per-response numbers, which is the strongest available check that the
deduplication is neither dropping nor double-counting a response
cannot be read does not take over and zero the session
usageByModelempty instead of guessing, anda record that arrives before the first
turn_contextcounts in the totalwithout a row in the split
Int, are reportedrather than read as zero or trapped on
input_tokensBecause the full package needs Darwin-only modules, I also built these three
files as a standalone package under
-swift-version 6and ran the suitethere: 32 tests, all green. CI runs the suite proper.
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Adds cross-provider token usage accounting for agent transcripts so Claude Code and Codex session costs can be compared on the same terms. Both providers report the same spend more than once, so the new
ChatUsageAccumulatordeduplicates rather than sums.total_token_usageas monotone runs that are banked when the count drops, since one rollout holds several threads.input_tokensmeans.unidentifiedReports, so totals deliberately undercount rather than overcount.rate_limitsincluding the secondary window; both stay nil for Claude.Int.maxvia one sharedChatTokenUsage.saturatedSum.TranscriptJSONValueto keep integers asIntso full-range counts are preserved, and moves the saturating-sum helper ontoChatTokenUsage; no behavior change.Written for commit 02a24dd. Summary will update on new commits.
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