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How can I see how much time I spend supervising AI agents?

Short answer

Most AI coding tools log what the agent did, not what you did while it ran. To see supervision time, you need something that reads those logs and separates the minutes you were writing and editing from the minutes you were prompting, waiting, reviewing and approving. Ascenda Flow does this on your Mac for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Gemini CLI.

Why it matters

When an agent writes the code, your job shifts towards directing it, checking what comes back and deciding what to keep. That work is real and it takes attention, but it doesn't appear in commits, tickets or token counts. If you can't see it, you can't tell whether a week with agents was lighter or just differently heavy.

How Ascenda helps

Flow reads the local history and live activity of the AI tools you already use and splits your time into two kinds:

  • Hands-on: you writing, editing and running things yourself.
  • Supervising: agents running while you prompt, wait, review, and answer permission and idle prompts.

It shows the split by day and by week, alongside how many sessions you had in flight and how often an agent stopped to ask you something. Flow imports the history your tools already keep, so the first read covers weeks you've already worked.

What else you'd need

The split tells you where your time went. Whether that felt sustainable is yours to say, which is why Flow asks for a ten-second check-in rather than guessing.

Next step

See it on your own weeks

Flow is free for macOS. It imports the history your AI tools already keep, so the first read covers weeks you've already worked.