Tokimeter vs BDFL - Benevolent Delegator for LLMs

Tokimeter pulls the usage records your AI coding tools already write into one report. Costs and exact token counts by project, session, day, tool and model. 5-hour and weekly limit windows, with budget warnings in your status line. Covers Claude and Codex in both the CLI and the desktop apps, plus Cursor, Grok Build, Hermes, opencode, Cline and Copilot CLI. No account, no telemetry, nothing leaves your machine. Report: npx tokimeter report Install: Check Below Open source & MIT licensed.

BDFL (Benevolent Delegator for LLMs) is an open-source terminal supervisor designed to orchestrate complex coding sessions using AI agents like Codex, Claude Code, and Ollama. Instead of relying on a single AI window, BDFL separates the workflow into specialized roles. Users interact with a 'planning agent' to create versioned, deliberate plans. Once the human user approves the plan—or specific sections of it—BDFL automatically delegates the tasks to isolated 'worker agents' that execute the code in parallel. Beyond just task delegation, the platform handles the heavy lifting of scheduling, running checks, verifying code, and managing integration. Every worker operates in an isolated environment, ensuring that code changes are properly sandboxed and reviewed before being merged. Because it operates entirely locally without any telemetry or centralized tracking, BDFL offers developers a secure, deterministic, and highly observable way to scale their AI-assisted software development.