Banditboard: an old Android as a Claude Code monitor

⚡ The gist in 5 seconds - Banditboard is an always-on display for AI coding limits: it shows how much of your 5-hour session and week has been used, when the reset happens, and whether there's an open incident with the models. - Available on Android 8.0+, iPhone (iOS 17+), Apple Watch (watchOS 10+), Windows 10+, and macOS 11+ — you can use several devices at once, with data synced through a single Claude Code hook. - Limitation: it requires a computer running Claude Code; no tokens or logins are sent to the phone — all stats come from /usage. Some features (e.g., Antigravity on Mac, iPhone, and Apple Watch) are expected in future versions. ### 🔍 What was found The project, introduced in the suiciniv-dev/clawdboard repository, is now called Banditboard and started as a way to revive an old Android smartphone lying in a drawer. It has since grown into a cross-platform monitor: besides Android, there are widgets for iPhone (Home Screen, Lock Screen, StandBy), an Apple Watch app with complications, a compact widget overlaying windows on Windows, and Racco the raccoon with a session percentage in the Mac menu bar. All devices use the same Claude Code hook — after Claude Code responds, the widget updates automatically, and you can also refresh manually with a click. Version 1.17.0 added Google Antigravity support: the Windows widget and Android read the Antigravity quota on the same computer, splitting it between Gemini and Claude/GPT, with separate 5-hour and weekly windows. Starting with 1.17.1, the iPhone also got an Antigravity page and a side-by-side mode. The connection is set up via a QR code at banditboard.pages.dev/conectar, no PIN, with end-to-end encryption. On Android, alerts at 80%, 90%, and 100% of the limit arrive even when the app is closed, and the reset notification fires even when the computer is off. ### 💡 Why it matters Developers usually check their limits only when they remember the /usage command, and a session often gets cut off mid-task. Banditboard keeps the numbers always in view — on the phone by your monitor, on your wrist, or in a corner of the screen — and warns you in advance. No need to keep a terminal open or refresh tabs, and since the data comes directly from Claude Code, you don't have to send tokens or logins to your phone. It's handy both for tracking spend and for planning work in long sessions. ### 🧩 Context Banditboard grew out of the idea of using an old Android smartphone as a dedicated display for quotas. It now runs on multiple platforms simultaneously, and each model got its own pixel raccoon Racco: Haiku, Sonnet, Opus, and Fable (for Antigravity — Gemini Pro with a star, Gemini Flash with a lightning bolt, Claude in glasses, and GPT-OSS in a hat). The raccoons react to the session state: they sleep when the limit is exhausted, sweat from 85%, turn red from 90%, and "explode" at 100%, and in music mode they dance to whatever is playing on the phone. Also available: 7-day history (one value every 30 minutes), a web dashboard on the local network, and inci status

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