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id: waiting-on-owner/the-ai-usage-panel-works-for-one-account-the
title: "The AI usage panel works for one account; the multi-account half is unproven"
theme: waiting-on-owner
status: open
created: 2026-08-18
date_source: stated
order: 1
---

**The AI usage panel works for one account; the multi-account half is unproven.** Landed and verified
live 2026-08-18 — click the harness pill in the chat composer and it shows Claude Code's own usage
display, limits with countdowns, tokens by day and by model.

What is NOT proven is the reason it was built: a second Anthropic login, the account tabs, and a
stored row surviving a switch. **Group C of `docs/ai-usage-panel.md`** is that, and test 10 is the one
most likely to be wrong — a refresh must not overwrite an account it could not measure, and that
failure is silent.

Deliberately deferred rather than forgotten: the owner switches accounts when the work needs it, and
the worst case is one wrong tab. Run Group C the first time a second login lands on this machine.

Also unexercised: the model dropdown no longer renders the literal string `claude-code` for a chat
that named no tier. Needs `officer-claude-code` restarted, not just `officer` — the parser in the
sidecar is what emits it.