Problem

The Session Reports documentation says:

Sessions are sorted by cost (highest first) by default

But actually running pnpx ccusage session shows entries sorted by Last Activity timestamp instead of by Cost. This was confusing because the expensive sessions were not at the top like I was expecting.

What I changed

In apps/ccusage/src/data-loader.ts, the loadSessionData function was using sortByDate on lastActivity field:

// before
return sortByDate(sessionFiltered, (item) => item.lastActivity, options?.order);

Changed to sort by totalCost using fast-sort directly:

// after
const sorted = sort(sessionFiltered);
const order = options?.order ?? 'desc';
switch (order) {
  case 'asc':
    return sorted.asc((item) => item.totalCost);
  case 'desc':
    return sorted.desc((item) => item.totalCost);
  default:
    unreachable(order);
}

Also updated:

• The JSDoc comment that said "sorted by last activity" to say "sorted by cost"
• The 3 related tests to use different costUSD values per session so they actually verify sorting by cost and not just any order

Testing

• All 252 tests pass (127 in data-loader.ts)
• pnpm run format passes
• Tests now use costUSD: 0.01, 0.05, 0.10 to verify cost ordering works correct

Closes #903

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Improvements
  • Sessions are now sorted by total cost (highest to lowest) by default, making it easier to spot expensive sessions.
  • Sorting can be reversed to show lowest-cost sessions first.
  • Display-mode session lists now align ordering with the displayed cost values for consistent viewing.