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ux: clarify dashboard budget display for different plans#198

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Summary

  • On Max plan: Show daily spend without confusing percentage (costs are informational)
  • On usage plan: Show budget bar capped at 100%, with clear "target" labeling
  • Add contextual guidance when over target instead of alarming red bar

Problem

The budget display showed a percentage (e.g., "284%") that looked like an over-budget alert, causing user confusion. On Max plan, costs are just informational tracking, not a hard limit.

Before

Budget $50 [████████████████████████████████] 284.0%
$141.81 used  │  $-91.81 idle

This reads as "over budget by 184%" which is alarming.

After (Max Plan)

Daily spend $141.81 (target: $50)

Clear, informational, no red flags.

After (Usage Plan)

Daily target $50 [████████████████████████████████] $141.81
⚠ 284% of target - consider increasing SQUADS_DAILY_BUDGET

Clear labeling with actionable guidance.

Changes

  • src/commands/dashboard.ts: Updated budget bar rendering logic

Testing

  • Build passes
  • Manual test: run squads dash on Max plan
  • Manual test: run squads dash on usage plan

Closes #121

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- On Max plan: Show daily spend without confusing percentage (costs are informational)
- On usage plan: Show budget bar capped at 100%, with clear "target" labeling
- Add contextual guidance when over target instead of alarming red bar

Before: "$141.81/50 today ████████████████████ 284%" (confusing, alarming)
After on Max: "Daily spend $141.81 (target: $50)" (clear, informational)
After on usage: Clear bar + yellow warning with actionable guidance

Closes #121

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Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
@kokevidaurre kokevidaurre merged commit c136b85 into main Jan 25, 2026
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- On Max plan: Show daily spend without confusing percentage (costs are informational)
- On usage plan: Show budget bar capped at 100%, with clear "target" labeling
- Add contextual guidance when over target instead of alarming red bar

Before: "$141.81/50 today ████████████████████ 284%" (confusing, alarming)
After on Max: "Daily spend $141.81 (target: $50)" (clear, informational)
After on usage: Clear bar + yellow warning with actionable guidance

Closes #121

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Co-authored-by: Squads Cloud Worker <cloud@agents-squads.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
kokevidaurre added a commit that referenced this pull request Feb 20, 2026
- On Max plan: Show daily spend without confusing percentage (costs are informational)
- On usage plan: Show budget bar capped at 100%, with clear "target" labeling
- Add contextual guidance when over target instead of alarming red bar

Before: "$141.81/50 today ████████████████████ 284%" (confusing, alarming)
After on Max: "Daily spend $141.81 (target: $50)" (clear, informational)
After on usage: Clear bar + yellow warning with actionable guidance

Closes #121

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Co-authored-by: Squads Cloud Worker <cloud@agents-squads.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
kokevidaurre added a commit that referenced this pull request Feb 20, 2026
- On Max plan: Show daily spend without confusing percentage (costs are informational)
- On usage plan: Show budget bar capped at 100%, with clear "target" labeling
- Add contextual guidance when over target instead of alarming red bar

Before: "$141.81/50 today ████████████████████ 284%" (confusing, alarming)
After on Max: "Daily spend $141.81 (target: $50)" (clear, informational)
After on usage: Clear bar + yellow warning with actionable guidance

Closes #121

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Co-authored-by: Squads Cloud Worker <cloud@agents-squads.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
kokevidaurre added a commit that referenced this pull request Feb 20, 2026
- On Max plan: Show daily spend without confusing percentage (costs are informational)
- On usage plan: Show budget bar capped at 100%, with clear "target" labeling
- Add contextual guidance when over target instead of alarming red bar

Before: "$141.81/50 today ████████████████████ 284%" (confusing, alarming)
After on Max: "Daily spend $141.81 (target: $50)" (clear, informational)
After on usage: Clear bar + yellow warning with actionable guidance

Closes #121

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Co-authored-by: Squads Cloud Worker <cloud@agents-squads.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
kokevidaurre added a commit that referenced this pull request Feb 20, 2026
- On Max plan: Show daily spend without confusing percentage (costs are informational)
- On usage plan: Show budget bar capped at 100%, with clear "target" labeling
- Add contextual guidance when over target instead of alarming red bar

Before: "$141.81/50 today ████████████████████ 284%" (confusing, alarming)
After on Max: "Daily spend $141.81 (target: $50)" (clear, informational)
After on usage: Clear bar + yellow warning with actionable guidance

Closes #121

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Co-authored-by: Squads Cloud Worker <cloud@agents-squads.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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ux: Dashboard budget display is confusing - '284%' looks like over-budget alert

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