Show running weekly USD spend in a persistent status bar at the bottom of the Warp window

[nslonim]

Summary

Add a persistent indicator at the bottom of the Warp window that shows the user's running weekly USD spend on Agent usage, so users can budget their AI spend and avoid surprises without having to navigate into Settings > Billing and usage.

Problem

Today, AI spend visibility in Warp is split across two surfaces:

• A per-turn credit count chip at the bottom of an Agent response, which only covers the most recent turn.
• The Settings > Billing and usage dashboard, which covers monthly totals and is several clicks away from a normal terminal/Agent workflow.

Neither surface gives a continuously visible signal of how much money has been spent recently. For users on Build/Business plans (and especially anyone using Add-on Credits, where AI usage maps directly to dollars), this makes it hard to:

• Track spend over a shorter horizon than a full billing cycle.
• Notice mid-week when usage is running hot before it becomes a surprise on the bill.
• Stay within a personal weekly budget without proactively opening Settings.

The user filing this feedback explicitly said: "I want to budget my usage and avoid surprises."

Reproduction steps or desired workflow

Desired workflow:

1. Use Warp normally throughout the week (Agent conversations, Generate, AI Autofill, etc.).
2. At any time, glance at the bottom of the Warp window and see something like This week: $4.20 (USD).
3. Optionally hover or click the indicator to expand a small breakdown by model (e.g., Claude Opus, Claude Sonnet, GPT-5), since model choice is the dominant driver of credit/dollar consumption per the credits docs.
4. The weekly total resets at the start of each week (a clearly documented boundary, e.g., user's local Monday or the start of the billing week).

Acceptance-style notes:

• Indicator must be persistent (always visible) at the bottom of the Warp UI, not gated behind opening Settings.
• Default unit is USD spend (dollars), not raw credits or tokens. Credits are non-deterministic and harder to reason about as a budget; the user explicitly asked for dollars.
• Default view shows only the weekly total. An optional expanded/hover view can break the total down by model.
• Setting to hide the indicator would be welcome for users who don't want it visible (e.g., screen sharing, pair programming).
• Should respect team vs. personal accounting where applicable (a user on a team with Add-on Credits should see their personal slice, not the entire team pool).

Artifacts

None attached

Warp version

Unknown

Operating system

macOS (specific version not collected)

Possible source references

• Settings > Billing and usage surface (referenced throughout the credits and add-on credits docs): the existing source of truth for spend totals; a weekly aggregation likely lives near the same data path that powers the monthly view.
• Credits transparency footer / per-turn credit count chip (referenced in the Credits docs): the existing in-app spend surface that today is per-turn only; the proposed indicator would extend the same telemetry to a persistent, weekly, USD-denominated view.

[oz-for-oss]

@nslonim

Here's what I found while triaging this issue:

This is a well-specified feature request. Existing usage surfaces appear to be per-response/per-conversation credits or Settings-based billing/usage, not a persistent weekly USD spend indicator.

Maintainer details

I concluded that feature request for a persistent bottom-of-window weekly USD spend indicator for Warp AI/Agent usage, with optional model breakdown and hide control..

Triage summary

This is a feature request for always-visible weekly AI spend tracking in USD at the bottom of the Warp window, with optional drill-down by model and an opt-out/hide control. The request is well specified enough for product/design review and should be treated as a cross-platform Agent/Billing/UI feature rather than a macOS-specific bug.

Current behavior observed from code

• Settings > Billing and usage already renders plan/request usage, add-on credit balance, monthly spend limit controls, purchased-this-month amounts, and usage history.
• Usage history fetches recent conversation usage and renders per-conversation credits, but it is Settings-scoped and credit-denominated.
• The Agent usage footer renders credits for the current/last conversation response, not a persistent weekly USD aggregate.
• Pricing and billing GraphQL models expose add-on credit options, monthly add-on spend, overage pricing, and current monthly overage cost, but no obvious client-facing weekly personal USD spend aggregate.

Likely implementation areas

• Add or reuse backend/GraphQL data that returns the current user's personal AI spend for a defined weekly window, ideally already USD-denominated or with an authoritative conversion path.
• Add a client model/cache/subscription for the weekly aggregate and refresh behavior.
• Add a persistent bottom-window/status-bar UI entry that remains visible during normal terminal/Agent workflows without depending on opening Settings.
• Add a hide/preference control for screen sharing or users who do not want the indicator visible.
• Clarify product/design details before implementation: weekly boundary, whether base-plan included usage should display as $0 vs allocated value, how team/shared add-on credits map to a personal slice, and how model breakdown appears on hover/click.

Duplicate check

I scanned open issues and recently closed issues for weekly spend, USD/budget, billing/credit tracking, and status-bar usage indicators. #7575 requests daily/weekly usage analytics in Settings-like reporting, and #8405 requests a CLI/API for credit usage, but neither is the same persistent bottom-bar weekly USD spend indicator. No duplicate label is recommended.

This is my automated analysis and may be incorrect. A maintainer will verify the details.

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