agentsview

Local tool for browsing AI coding agent sessions, transcripts, and token usage.

Recommended for its usage and token-cost metrics123 and searchable transcripts across most coding agents,456 built on local conversation files instead of a proxy.78 The only reported problem is one user who couldn't get filtering by agent to work9 and saw cost figures that differed from ccusage.10
The HN verdict, written from 10 cited comments
5recommend
0warn against
Jun 3, 2026first mention
Oct 19, 2026latest mention
Nov 25 – Oct 26
Used forfor LLM cost trackingfor multi-agent userslocal-firstviewing activity across agentsanalyzing coding agent usage

Why people recommend it

Usage metrics · 3

Shows token usage, visualizations, and what usage would cost at API rates.

“I can highly recommend https://agentsview.io/ for a way to dig into your LLM usage.”

“use one of the many token/session recording tools (I like agentsview)”

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“I recommend https://github.com/wesm/agentsview - its quite good, has usage metrics and nice viewer/search for transcripts from most agents.”

Transcript browsing · 2

Lets users search transcripts and inspect each conversation, including tool calls.

“I can highly recommend https://agentsview.io/ for a way to dig into your LLM usage.”

“I recommend https://github.com/wesm/agentsview - its quite good, has usage metrics and nice viewer/search for transcripts from most agents.”

Multi-agent coverage · 2

Shows activity across all or most coding agents in one place.

“I recommend https://github.com/wesm/agentsview - its quite good, has usage metrics and nice viewer/search for transcripts from most agents.”

No proxy · 2

Reads local conversation files, so it doesn't add a proxy as another point of failure.

“I can highly recommend https://agentsview.io/ for a way to dig into your LLM usage.”

Works well · 2

Users call it the best option they found and say it works well.

“I've been running https://github.com/kenn-io/agentsview for this, works well.”

Caveats and dissent

Agent filtering · 1

One user couldn't get the config change or --agent flag to filter results as expected.

“Hmm, I tried that and made the config file change but it didn't work for me.”

Cost accuracy · 1

One user saw cost figures that differed completely from ccusage and couldn't tell which was right.

“Hmm, I tried that and made the config file change but it didn't work for me.”

All comments 6

“I can highly recommend https://agentsview.io/ for a way to dig into your LLM usage.”

“use one of the many token/session recording tools (I like agentsview)”

“I've been running https://github.com/kenn-io/agentsview for this, works well.”

“Hmm, I tried that and made the config file change but it didn't work for me.”

“I recommend https://github.com/wesm/agentsview - its quite good, has usage metrics and nice viewer/search for transcripts from most agents.”

Threads where it came up

Data: agentsview.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.

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