Do you talk to your agents, or type at them?

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After a few weeks of driving agents you start to wonder about your own habits. How much of this do you speak rather than type? How often are you steering from your phone? Which repositories is the work really going into? You could guess, and you would probably be wrong, because the quick typed one-liners are the ones you forget.

Your Throttle is a private dashboard of how you drive your fleet. Open it from the menu behind your name at the bottom of the Cockpit's left rail: Usage (Your Throttle).

It shows activity, not money

Worth saying first, because it is the opposite of most usage pages. Your agents run on your own subscriptions and keys, so this page counts turns, never cost or tokens. A turn is one submitted message: one spoken utterance and one typed message each count as one, which is what makes the comparison fair.

Two rings, two questions

  • Voice vs typing is how much of your driving you speak.
  • Mobile vs desktop is how much of it comes from your phone.

Under them sit your turns, the sessions you started, and the most sessions you have ever had running at once. The page states which stretch of time it covers, and you can change the length.

The tabs that change what you do

  • Activity is the shape of your working day: turns per hour, voice stacked over typed, and sessions per hour beside it. If the fleet is busy at hours when you are not, that is the sign it is working without you.
  • Repos ranks the codebases you work in by how much driving each one took, with every worktree and machine rolled into one row. It is badged Private - only you, since which repositories take your time is nobody else's business.
  • Agents gives the same ranking by agent tool. Turns one agent drove into another are counted separately from yours, never added in, and once any exist a Leverage card says how many turns the fleet spent off the back of each of yours.

Why it does not show time spent

An idle hour looks the same as a heads-down hour, so a time figure would lie. Turns track what you pushed through. The Agents tab adds up to the same totals as the rings, over the same window. A session that never recorded which agent it ran under is counted as unknown rather than dropped, so nothing is guessed and nothing is hidden. A dashboard that says what it does not know is one you can believe.

What to do with it

Leverage is the number to watch over time. If it climbs, more of your fleet is running on each instruction you give. If your voice share surprises you, try a walk. And if one repository takes far more driving than the work seems to justify, that is where better standing instructions would pay off first.

Your Throttle is how you drove. For what the fleet did, see what did your agents do this week. Each tab is walked through on Your Throttle.

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