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pacenotch is public: Claude usage limits with a vertical pace notch
pacenotch is a new public Go repository: a CLI, tray icon and window for macOS, Windows and Linux that reports Claude’s usage windows (5-hour session, 7-day all models, and the 7-day Sonnet/Opus windows when the plan reports them) with a thin vertical notch drawn at the elapsed fraction of each window — the fill is past the notch when you are ahead of an even pace, short of it when there is room left, and the tray icon turns red on that side of the line (d7d6da6, 371aefc). The first day of commits also landed the usage/pace packages and terminal renderer with a compact mode below 60 columns, parity and coverage tooling, and a CI matrix with packaging and the README (b8f822a, b6c6151). The macOS build learned to raise its window in front of other apps and to reopen it when the running app is launched again (9f9aa5e, 6ca1263). MIT-licensed and unofficial — not affiliated with Anthropic.