Observed arrival · 2026-09-19
Aura Wire puts the AI bill inside VS Code
A local Windows tool for chatting with AI models from VS Code while monitoring spend, latency, tokens, and secret redaction.
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- Windows developers using multiple AI coding models
- Worth noticing
- The homepage displays $0.0943 estimated spend, 148 recent events, and one API key redacted before transmission.
Field notes
The product’s visible workflow centers on inspection rather than opaque AI automation: each conversation turn is associated with a model, token count, latency, and estimated spend. The page also demonstrates a redaction event and says processing occurs in memory over loopback, while presenting routing and context compression as optional controls. A companion product, Aura Terran, is described as indexing local project folders for MCP and REST access.
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