The setup that pushed me to build this was embarrassingly low-tech. Two terminal windows, side by side. One running the Claude Code CLI on a refactor. One running Codex on a different repo. Two live coding agents, two different repos, two different ways of telling me what just happened.
Each window has its own dialect for reporting a turn. Claude prints a tidy result line with tokens and a dollar figure. Codex streams whole messages and reports tokens but no money. So at any given moment I had a pair of agents running and no single place that could answer the one question I actually cared about: how much have I spent today, and on what.
I kept Alt-Tabbing between windows trying to add that up in my head. That is a stupid way to run a studio. So I built a cockpit.
This post is about that cockpit, which I call HoneyHub, and specifically about the part that was much harder than the windowing: making a single cost view that pulls from two tools which measure cost in completely different units, without lying to me about either of them.
What HoneyHub Is
