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How to get a plain text cost summary for a project with Bough

Print a project's sittings, tasks and costs to the terminal or a file.

Short answer: Install Bough as described in the README; then run bough --list to see every project with history; run bough <project-name> --text to print the summary to the terminal. All steps.

  • Money
  • Beginner
  • 15 minutes
  • From the README
  • Any agent

Who it is forA developer or team lead who wants a quick written record of how much agent work went into a project, without opening a browser.

The problemThe browser view is hard to paste into notes or a status update, and a plain list is quicker to scan.

The outcomeAn indented text list with prompt counts, changes to files, hours at the keyboard, commits and the API-rate total, saved to a file if you want it.

What you need first

  • A Claude Code, OpenAI Codex CLI or Pi installation with existing session history on this machine
  • Homebrew on macOS, or the install script on Linux or Windows, or Go installed
  • A terminal to run bough in

Steps

  1. Install Bough as described in the README.
  2. Run bough --list to see every project with history.
  3. Run bough <project-name> --text to print the summary to the terminal. (inferred, check the README)
  4. Run bough <project-name> --text -o notes.txt to save it to a file. (inferred, check the README)

Prompt for your agent

In the bough repo at github.com/nickelsec/bough, run `bough --list` and then `bough <project-name> --text -o summary.txt` for the project named <project-name>. Confirm that summary.txt exists and contains a total dollar figure labelled as API-rate cost.

Caveat. The text view counts what the agent did from its transcripts, so it may not match the number your agent host shows, and Bough says so in its output.

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