--- title: How do I check my Claude usage or add a second Claude account? question: claude usage and accounts area: settings order: 7 surface: desktop audience: beginner keywords: [claude usage, usage bar, rate limit, 5-hour, weekly, percent used, resets in, claude account, multiple accounts, second account, switch account, use everywhere, follow system, signed out, sign in again, per quadrant account, hit my limit] related: [cloud-account-sign-in, per-project-vs-global-settings] updated: 2026-07-21 --- # How do I check my Claude usage or add a second Claude account? Look at the bottom-right of the app. The status bar shows a **Claude** button with a small bar and a percentage. Click it to open a panel with two parts: **Usage** shows how much of each account's limit you have used, and **Accounts** lets you sign in to more Claude accounts and choose which one your agents run on. This lives in the status bar, not in the settings page. ## The usage bars Click the **Claude** button at the bottom-right. Under the **Usage** heading you get one row per Claude account. Each row shows up to three bars for the different limit windows: - **5-hour** (the window that usually runs out first) - **weekly** - a per-model **weekly** bar Each bar shows **X% used** and, below it, when it resets, like "resets in 3h 20m" or "resets in 2d 4h". The colour is a traffic light: calm while low, amber from 70%, and red from 90%. A window with no limit reads **no cap**. Click the **↻** at the top of the panel to refresh the numbers now instead of waiting for the automatic check. The account whose numbers show on the collapsed **Claude** button is the one that is actually being used for the quadrant you are focused on. ## Adding another Claude account You can sign codus into more than one Claude account and switch between them, which is useful when one account hits its limit. 1. Click the **Claude** button to open the panel. 2. Under the **Accounts** heading, click **+ Sign in**. 3. A browser tab opens. The panel shows: > A browser tab opened — pick the account you want and approve, then come back here. 4. Choose the Claude account you want and approve, then return to codus. The new account appears in the list. While the sign-in is running, the button reads **Cancel** if you need to stop. Your first, original account is marked with a small **default** tag. ## Choosing which account an agent uses There are two ways to point agents at a particular account. ### One quadrant Focus the quadrant you want to change first (click into it), then open the panel. Under **Accounts** you see **Quadrant N uses** with a row of choices: - **Default login** (or **Follow system (email)** if you have set a system-wide account), which means no special override for this quadrant. - One button per signed-in account. Click an account to assign it to that quadrant. A note reminds you: > Relaunch this quadrant's agent to apply the switch. If you had not focused a quadrant, the panel reads **Focus a quadrant to assign an account** instead. ### Every quadrant at once To move everything (all quadrants and the Brain) onto one account in a single click, find that account's row under **Usage** and click **Use everywhere**. The account that everything runs on is tagged **everywhere**. A note reads: > Every quadrant + the Brain run on . Relaunch an agent for it to take effect. To go back, click **Use everywhere** on your default account's row. ## Applying a switch in a running quadrant If you switch the account for a quadrant whose agent is already running, a bar appears on that quadrant: > Claude account switched to ****. This agent is still running on ****. Click **Restart & keep conversation** on that bar. codus relaunches the agent on the new account and resumes your conversation, so you do not lose your place. ## When an account is signed out If Claude can no longer log in as an account, a warning dot shows on the **Claude** button and that account's row is tagged **signed out**. Agents on it will fail. Open the panel and click **Sign in again** on that row to fix it. Usage bars alone are not proof an account is healthy; the **signed out** tag is what to watch for. ## Common problems - **The bars look fine but agents say they cannot log in.** An account can still read its usage after its login has gone stale. Look for the **signed out** tag and click **Sign in again**. - **I switched account but the agent kept using the old one.** A switch needs the agent to relaunch. Use **Restart & keep conversation** on the quadrant's bar, or relaunch the agent yourself. - **This is not my codus sign-in.** Correct. The Claude account here is separate from your codus cloud account. See [How do I sign in to my codus cloud account?](cloud-account-sign-in.md).