Get USAGE Miner

1. 1Run the commandIn PowerShell or Terminal. It downloads the current release from npm and opens the USAGE Miner window. Nothing is installed system-wide.
2. 2Sign in to USAGEThe app opens your browser, you approve this PC, and it finishes on its own. There is no key to copy.
3. 3Connect an eligible AI providerYour own provider account, connected once on the website. Connecting is not yet earning -- it is what makes earning possible.
4. 4Start your AI tool with USAGEClaude Code and Codex are launched by the app, one click each, so the routing lives in that session and nowhere else.
5. 5Watch verified compute liveYour dashboard fills in as you work. Run the same command whenever you want to mine again; it always starts the newest release.

USAGE has no code-signing certificate yet, so any .exe it offered would stop you at a Windows SmartScreen warning — and Windows would be right to ask. The command removes the reason for that warning rather than hiding it: nothing unknown is executed, the code runs under the node.exe you already trust, and npm checks its integrity on the way.

Prefer a permanent command? npm install -g usage-miner, then usage. Update it later with the same install command.

• Open source, with provenanceApache-2.0. Every npm version is published by a GitHub-hosted workflow with a provenance attestation, so anyone can check which commit produced it.
• No provider key on your PCYour provider credential stays on USAGE's servers. The app never receives it and never writes it to a file.
• The device credential stays localEncrypted with Windows DPAPI and scoped to your user account. It is never printed and never logged.
• Compute, not conversationsUSAGE records models, token counts and timestamps. Prompts, responses, tool arguments and source code are not recorded.
• Only eligible verified compute earnsFree compute, unpriced models and self-reported usage are measured where possible and earn nothing.

• Its sign-in and settings live in %APPDATA%\USAGE. Nothing outside your own user account is touched, and nothing needs administrator rights.
• Your AI tools are started by USAGE, not reconfigured by it. The routing lives in the environment of the session it launches and is gone when you close the tool; your own sign-in is left alone and no credential touches your disk.
• The one exception is a switch you turn on yourself: “Measure Claude Code everywhere” adds telemetry-only settings to ~/.claude/settings.json and puts back what was there when you turn it off.
• The device credential can only route requests, read its own configuration, send a heartbeat and replace itself. It cannot change account settings, read a provider key, create a proof, or alter a reward.
• No service, no scheduled task, and it does not start with Windows.

You will never be asked to paste an API key, a credential, a token or an environment variable. If something asks you to, it is not USAGE.

USAGE Miner on GitHub — the code, release notes and build workflow. The npm package shows each version's provenance.