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Anthropic's Claude 'Reflect' Dashboard Wants to Help You Log Off and Use AI More Mindfully

Anthropic is rolling out a new feature for its Claude AI assistant called Reflect — a personal usage dashboard designed to help users understand their AI habits, optimize their workflow, and ultimately spend less time on the chatbot. Think of it as a cross between Spotify Wrapped and Apple’s Screen Time tool, but for your AI conversations.

The feature, which Anthropic is releasing in beta today, is available to Free, Pro, and Max subscribers through the Claude web client and desktop app. Users can generate their first report by opening Claude’s settings menu and navigating to the new “Reflect” tab.

What the Reflect Dashboard Shows

At the top of the dashboard, users see a paragraph-length summary of their recent conversations with Claude. By default, the dashboard collates the last month of interactions, but users can toggle between views covering the last three, six, or twelve months.

The interface lists key metrics including the user’s most active day, peak usage hour, and total number of chats over the selected time period, complete with visual representations. Below that, there are toggleable break reminders and time limits — configurable independently via a “Time and focus” tab, with the option to dismiss nudges when in the middle of a task.

Claude's new Reflect dashboard provides insight into your AI usage patterns.

A breakdown of topics discussed with Claude follows, showing which subjects come up most frequently and their percentage share. The dashboard also offers personalized AI “fluency” recommendations designed to streamline usage — suggestions grouped around guidelines Anthropic co-created with a group of academics.

Practical Recommendations, Not Just Numbers

What sets Reflect apart from a simple analytics dashboard is its actionability. If Claude detects that a user frequently re-establishes the same context when writing prompts, it may recommend using the Projects feature to group prompts together. In one example, Engadget’s Igor Bonifacic reported that after using Claude to research a story about inference costs, the dashboard recommended creating a custom fact-checking skill — generating a template that ensures Claude always lists its source, confidence level, and any caveats for each claim.

“We were really intentional about building the dashboard with an eye toward how we can upskill people’s usage of Claude, not in a way that encourages them to spend more time with it, but instead enables them to get more efficient at meeting their goals, and hopefully get off of Claude,” said Ryn Linthicum, Anthropic’s head of wellbeing policy, in an interview with Engadget.

Designed for Mindful Usage

The Reflect dashboard emerged from a study by Anthropic’s Societal Impacts team, where participants expressed a mixture of optimism and anxiety around AI usage. Notably, the dashboard does not currently display total time spent using Claude — a metric Anthropic says its product team “didn’t want to maximize.” The company plans to surface that information for users in the future alongside enhanced usage management settings.

For now, Reflect is available in beta on the web and desktop. Anthropic says a mobile version is also in the works, which will reflect usage across devices. The feature represents a growing trend among AI companies to prioritize user wellbeing and intentional tool use over raw engagement metrics — a refreshing stance in an industry that often measures success by time spent.