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  "articleBody": "You can now [ask Puck](https://ampcode.com/puck) about your token, credit, and orb usage.\n\nTry questions like:\n\n- Which threads used the most tokens today? Orb time?\n- Which models did I use the most in my 5 most expensive threads today?\n- In my monorepo, based on my latest threads, can I use a smaller orb size or would that make stuff too slow?\n- Is it orbin' time? To the millisecond, how much orbin' time have I had in my threads from the last 3 hours?\n\nPuck reads your [personal usage](https://ampcode.com/settings/usage) and per-thread usage to answer these questions for you. Just ask Puck, or click **Explain Usage** on those pages.\n\nYou can also run `amp usage --details` and `amp threads usage <thread-id> --details` to get the data yourself, or to make a cool visualization of your Amp usage in an [orb portal](https://ampcode.com/manual/orbs#portals).\n",
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  "content_html": "<p>You can now <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https://ampcode.com/puck\">ask Puck</a> about your token, credit, and orb usage.</p>\n<p>Try questions like:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Which threads used the most tokens today? Orb time?</li>\n<li>Which models did I use the most in my 5 most expensive threads today?</li>\n<li>In my monorepo, based on my latest threads, can I use a smaller orb size or would that make stuff too slow?</li>\n<li>Is it orbin' time? To the millisecond, how much orbin' time have I had in my threads from the last 3 hours?</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Puck reads your <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https://ampcode.com/settings/usage\">personal usage</a> and per-thread usage to answer these questions for you. Just ask Puck, or click <strong>Explain Usage</strong> on those pages.</p>\n<p>You can also run <code>amp usage --details</code> and <code>amp threads usage &lt;thread-id&gt; --details</code> to get the data yourself, or to make a cool visualization of your Amp usage in an <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https://ampcode.com/manual/orbs#portals\">orb portal</a>.</p>\n",
  "content_markdown": "You can now [ask Puck](https://ampcode.com/puck) about your token, credit, and orb usage.\n\nTry questions like:\n\n- Which threads used the most tokens today? Orb time?\n- Which models did I use the most in my 5 most expensive threads today?\n- In my monorepo, based on my latest threads, can I use a smaller orb size or would that make stuff too slow?\n- Is it orbin' time? To the millisecond, how much orbin' time have I had in my threads from the last 3 hours?\n\nPuck reads your [personal usage](https://ampcode.com/settings/usage) and per-thread usage to answer these questions for you. Just ask Puck, or click **Explain Usage** on those pages.\n\nYou can also run `amp usage --details` and `amp threads usage <thread-id> --details` to get the data yourself, or to make a cool visualization of your Amp usage in an [orb portal](https://ampcode.com/manual/orbs#portals).\n",
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