Release 0.2.18 — Ambient time-to-empty, burn attribution, and top 10 quota pipeline improvements · tilorahdotco/meterusage

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[0.2.18] - 2026-09-12

Ambient time-to-empty — dynamic ETA calculations (~47m left at current pace / Paced to last until reset) directly in the menu bar and side notch, warning of rapid burn cliffs before limits expire.
Window burn attribution — real-time token breakdown by project, model, and message turns for the active window.
Context waste hints — diagnostic metadata highlighting cache hit rate %, average tokens per turn, and long-chat flags (≥ 10 turns or ≥ 100k tokens).
Durable daily history store — local summary database (~/Library/Application Support/MeterUsage/durable-daily-history.json) persisting token tallies and spend across CLI transcript cleanups.
Unified AI coding today strip — high-level summary in popover displaying aggregate tokens today, 7-day volume, and estimated USD spend across all active providers.
Claude live quota companion — reliable companion script (Scripts/claude-companion.sh) maintaining live limits[] arrays with stale-file detection.
Expanded tool coverage — native local quota and session sources for Cursor, GitHub Copilot CLI, and Google Gemini CLI.
Smarter pace alerts — native macOS notifications for fast burn cliffs (< 30m) and 50% soft warning thresholds.
Cross-provider failover recommendations — headroom suggestions when current provider burns fast.
Agent budget API — structured JSON CLI export via meterusage json reporting remaining_percent, eta_seconds, pacing, and burn_rate.

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