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Advisor — a new panel in the dashboard with ranked, money-quantified tips to
cut waste, computed entirely from your local usage data (no network, no API key,
no prompt text). Toggle with advisor.enabled (on by default). It surfaces:
Routing routine turns to a cheaper model — when a period's spend includes a
run of short turns on an expensive model, it estimates what those same turns
would have cost one tier down (e.g. Opus → Sonnet) and shows the saving.
Long sessions re-processing context uncached — sessions with many turns but
low prompt-cache reuse, where context was paid for at full input price instead
of read back at ~1/10th.
Sessions running near the context limit — a habit of peaking above 80%
context, where Claude has to compact or drop earlier context to keep going.
A month-end spend forecast at your current pace.
Subscription-aware framing — on a Pro/Max plan (flat fee, no per-token billing)
the dollar figures are labeled estimated API-equivalent usage (a gauge, not a
bill) and the advice — local cards and the AI explanation alike — is framed around
your 5-hour / weekly session limits instead of a bill. The Today / This Month /
All Time cost cards also carry a subtle "≈ API-equivalent" caption.
Explain with AI (opt-in) — a button on the Advisor panel that turns the
computed signals into written, prioritized coaching. It calls Anthropic's Messages
API with your own API key (stored in VS Code Secret Storage via the new Set
Anthropic API Key command; never the Claude Code OAuth token). Only usage metadata
is sent by default; prompt text is included only if you enable advisor.ai.includePrompts and confirm each time. The model is configurable with advisor.ai.model (default Sonnet). Needs a pay-as-you-go Anthropic API key (a
Pro/Max subscription doesn't include API credit); the call surfaces Anthropic's
actual error — e.g. a 400 "credit balance is too low" with a one-click link to
billing — instead of a bare status code.