---
title: "Review Pioneer AI usage and conversations"
description: "See what Pioneer AI has used by person, feature, source, model, or conversation, and read a technician's conversations as a reviewer."
url: "https://support.outpostplatform.com/pioneer-ai/usage/"
product: "depot"
type: "how-to"
status: "draft"
ai_summary: "Settings > AI > Usage (ai:manage) reports Pioneer AI calls for a date range by Person, Feature, Source, Model, or Conversation, with calls, input, output, cached and thinking tokens, and estimated cost. Settings > AI > Conversations (ai:review) lists every technician's conversations and opens them read-only, auditing each view."
availability:
  plans: ["home-lab", "essentials", "enterprise", "msp"]
  permission: "ai:manage"
  preview: false
source: "https://gitlab.com/outpostplatform/docs/-/edit/main/src/content/docs/pioneer-ai/usage.md"
license: "CC BY 4.0"
---

# Review Pioneer AI usage and conversations

Every model call Pioneer AI makes is recorded in your Outpost, whichever
source answered it. This page shows how to see that usage, so you can find
where AI spend goes, and how a reviewer reads a technician's conversations.

## Before you begin

- **Usage** needs `ai:manage`. **Conversations** needs `ai:review`. The owner
  holds both by default. Without the permission, the tab is shown but cannot
  be opened, and says which permission it needs.
- Usage counts every source. What Outpost bills for Outpost Cloud AI appears
  on your invoice. See [Invoices, taxes, and payments](/account/invoices/).

## See usage

1. Go to **Settings** > **AI** > **Usage**.
2. In **From** and **To**, choose the dates. The default is the first of this
   month (UTC) to today.
3. In **Group by**, choose **Person**, **Feature**, **Source**, **Model**, or
   **Conversation**.

Each row shows **Calls**, **Input tokens**, **Output tokens**, **Cached
tokens**, **Thinking tokens**, and **Cost**, with a **Total** row. Select a
column heading to sort by it.

Grouped by **Feature**, the rows name what each call was for:

| Feature | What made the calls |
| --- | --- |
| **Chat** | Pioneer AI answering in conversations |
| **AI safety review** | [Automatic approval](/pioneer-ai/automatic-approval/) reviewing proposed actions |
| **Summarizing long conversations** | Pioneer AI summarizing earlier messages to stay within the model's context |
| **Conversation titles** | Titling a conversation after its first reply |
| **Ticket summaries** | Writing the note for **Save to ticket** |
| **Remote control** | Pioneer AI reading screenshots and choosing actions while it [controls a remote session](/remote-access/pioneer-control/) |
| **Shell command checks** | Judging the impact of a shell command that the fixed rules do not cover. See [Shell commands](/pioneer-ai/approve-actions/#shell-commands). |
| **Workflow AI steps** | The **Ask AI** step in [workflows](/service-desk/workflow-ai-steps/) |
| **Verify** | **Verify** on **Settings** > **AI** |

Sub-agent work and web searches appear as their own rows. Grouped by
**Person**, each workflow's AI steps appear as **Workflow:** followed by the
workflow's name.

**Cost** is an estimate. For Outpost Cloud AI it is calculated at your rates
for each call, and your invoice is the bill. For your own endpoint it is
calculated from the prices entered on **Settings** > **AI**, and is zero when
no prices are entered. Outpost never bills your own endpoint.

A technician sees the tokens and cost of their own conversation on the meter
under it. See [Use Pioneer AI](/pioneer-ai/use-pioneer-ai/#follow-what-pioneer-ai-does).

## Review a technician's conversation

1. Go to **Settings** > **AI** > **Conversations**. The list shows every
   technician's conversations, newest activity first, with the
   **Technician**, **Last activity**, **Tokens**, and **Cost**.
2. Select a conversation.

It opens read-only, with the banner **You are reviewing** followed by the
technician's name and **It is read-only, and this view is recorded in the
audit log.** You cannot send messages, answer its approval cards, or change
it. Each conversation you open is recorded in the
[audit log](/depot/audit-log/).

Under the conversation, **Trace** lists every model call, tool call, and web
search in it, in order. Select **Show trace** to load it. Each step shows its
**Time**, **Step**, **What**, **Tier**, **Decision** (how an action was
approved or refused), **Outcome**, **Duration**, **Tokens**, and **Cost**.
Showing another technician's trace is recorded in the audit log.

Conversations past their retention period are deleted and no longer listed.
See [Pioneer AI data and privacy](/pioneer-ai/data-and-privacy/).

## Verify

**Usage** for the current month shows a **Chat** row once anyone has used
Pioneer AI, and **Conversations** lists that conversation.

## Next steps

- [Set budgets for your own endpoint](/pioneer-ai/set-up/#set-budgets-for-your-own-endpoint)
- [Pioneer AI data and privacy](/pioneer-ai/data-and-privacy/)