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Claude Code Usage Monitor (hadufer fork) is a Windows desktop utility published by Hassan Dufer, currently available at version 1.5.3, the sole version recorded in the catalog. It belongs to the system monitoring and developer tooling category, providing a taskbar widget that displays Claude Code usage directly on the Windows taskbar, colour-coded according to consumption pace. The software is a fork of CodeZeno.ClaudeCodeUsageMonitor and retains the upstream project's core functionality, including the taskbar widget itself and the tray badges that surface usage information at a glance. Its distinguishing change lies in how the usage bars are interpreted and coloured: rather than colouring each bar by raw percentage, the fork colours them by consumption pace, which expresses the percentage of the allowance spent relative to how much of the current usage window has elapsed. This approach gives users a more actionable signal, since a high percentage early in a window indicates a different situation than the same percentage near its end. In addition to the existing bars, the fork introduces a third bar that tracks the per-model weekly limit, a figure the usage API reports separately from other consumption metrics. Configuration is handled through a settings file, from which users can adjust the thresholds that define the pace bands, the colours assigned to each band, and the enabling or disabling of both key features, namely pace-based colouring and the additional weekly-limit bar. The tool is suited to Claude Code users on Windows who want continuous, glanceable visibility of their usage without opening a separate application, and who prefer pace-aware feedback over static percentage readings when managing their consumption against rolling limits. As a single-version release with an active upstream lineage, it represents a focused enhancement of an established monitoring widget rather than a ground-up redesign.
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