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Show an estimated AI‑credit cost for the next message on the usage gauge

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### Feature summary

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### What problem are you trying to solve?

Cost per turn varies depending on the selected model, the reasoning effort, how much context is loaded, and how the assistant is being run (e.g. a single interactive reply vs. a longer autonomous run). Today users only learn the cost *after* spending it, which makes it hard to make informed choices (switch to a cheaper model, lower reasoning effort, trim context, etc.) before sending.

### Proposed solution

Add a lightweight **"Next message" estimate**: a single, compact prediction of what the upcoming turn will roughly cost, learned only from the user's own recent usage (on‑device, no server calls or extra data collection). Changing the model, reasoning effort, or run mode should visibly move the number.

**UX**
- Visualized in a usage popover, e.g. **"Next message — ~X credits (est.)"**, on a single line alongside "Session" spend.
- Framing: it's an estimate of the *typical* next turn, not a guarantee.

**How the estimate is built**
1. **Learn a typical cost ("anchor") at several granularities.** Maintain a smoothed, geometric (log‑space) moving average of realized per‑turn cost so a few unusually large or small turns don't dominate. Track and blend it at a few levels:
- **Per‑configuration** — keyed by the cost‑relevant choices the user controls: model, reasoning effort, context size tier, and run mode. This is what makes the estimate react when the user switches any of those.
- **Per‑session** — captures the "weight" of the current conversation (a heavy session tends to keep being heavy), ramped in as the session accumulates turns.
- **Global** — a cross‑session fallback used before a given configuration has any history.

2. **Cold start.** Before any history exists, fall back to a context‑proportional approach.

3. **Self‑calibrate.** After each turn, compare what actually happened to what was predicted and fold the realized cost back into the averages, so the estimate improves over time and adapts to the user's habits.

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Piste de recherche

Start by locating the usage popover and the existing per-turn cost data. Trace how model, reasoning effort, context, and run mode are represented, then determine where session and global usage history can be read and updated. Done means the popover shows a clearly framed next-message estimate that responds to those choices and calibrates from later turns without server calls.

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Évaluation

Domaine
ai, desktop
Type d'issue
Fonctionnalité
Difficulté
5/5
Temps estimé
Plus d'une semaine
Activité
Calme
Clarté
Plutôt claire
Accessibilité débutants
38/100

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