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ggrzracz about 5 hours ago 22 commentsRead Article on github.com

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tyleo•about 2 hours ago

I recommend people just update their Claude Code status line so that changes like this are in Claude Code itself.

https://www.tyleo.com/blog/love-letter-to-the-claude-code-do...

oefrha•about 1 hour ago

My status line shows 5h and 7d quota usage among other things like model, context usage, git branch, etc. Unfortunately the whole status line disappears half of the time from CC’s broken ass UI.

grzracz•about 2 hours ago

Personally I have multiple instances of Claude on my PC dedicated to different areas (split between my private subscription and my work one) and it is useful to see both at a glance. And I don't have to keep the terminal open to see how much time is left for quota to be reset. But for single-Claude users this is indeed a valid solution!

tyleo•about 2 hours ago

I also use multiple. Your statusline is per Claude session so it can show separate quotas/file info/context use/etc.

It’s just a script you write to modify the last line of the Claude Code program.

fosron•22 minutes ago

CodexBar seems to do that good enough (and supports Codex), plus https://github.com/daniel3303/ClaudeCodeStatusLine this also adds data straight into CC

BowBun•28 minutes ago

I use codeburn, has both terminal and menu bar versions. Works quite well - https://github.com/getagentseal/codeburn

rippeltippel•29 minutes ago

I use CodexBar, which supports more providers: https://github.com/steipete/codexbar

grzracz•26 minutes ago

Wasn't aware this exists, good one!

tskulbru•about 1 hour ago

Im using https://github.com/mryll/claudebar myself on my Linux desktop setup using Hyprland and Waybar. Will try this one out on my laptop though!

mahoro•about 1 hour ago

Unexpected: reading the code was entertaining (no sarcasm): pixel fonts, png encoder.

artdigital•about 1 hour ago

> curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grzegorz-raczek-unit8/clau... | bash

Can we stop with this way of installing things? This is already on brew and it’s a menu bar app. Just let me download it instead of executing some arbitrary bash script

When did this trend start?

grzracz•34 minutes ago

While I agree it's not super safe, even CC is installed this way: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/quickstart

giancarlostoro•about 3 hours ago

Honestly drives me crazy that CC doesnt show this on the bottom status bar a simple percentage “Weekly Quota Left: 99%” would be useful. Also noticed and idk if it was me or some mishap, a lot of my Claude sessions were not autocompacting, maybe its /loops fault not sure, but it made sense why I finally reached my weekly limit so insanely quickly recently.

kaliara•about 2 hours ago

I wanted the same thing and recently saw this blog post on how to customize the bottom status bar: https://www.aimhuge.com/blog/claude-code-status-line.

I now show my current context window, five-hour quota, weekly quota, current branch and current PR.

It's quite handy!

devsda•about 3 hours ago

From their perspective, they don't want

1. Standard tier users increasing their usage just to minimize "wasted" token credits.

2. Higher tier users with extra usage enabled to use and pay for those extra tokens instead of planning to stay within limits.

giancarlostoro•about 3 hours ago

I just want to know if my next prompt is about to eat shit at the last token. The number of times it like half works on something and falls apart halfway through.

xienze•about 2 hours ago

You likely still wouldn't be able to figure that out even if you had a percent usage view available. Will your request take 1K tokens or 10K? Who knows! That's the magic of non-deterministic black boxes.

ab-dm•about 2 hours ago

The Claude app has a usage indicator when you switch to code mode. I’ve been using this more and more now that their sandbox functionality has Improved.

grzracz•about 3 hours ago

Doesn't it autocompact only if it is about to run out of context? On these newer models the context is 1M tokens so it's quite difficult to reach. I run compacts manually when I stop in a good place and tokens are over 300k

giancarlostoro•about 3 hours ago

1m is too high, they used to autocompact a little too soon, maybe I tweaked defaults, it was kind of annoying, 200k tokens is too soon for me, I feel like the sweet spot is around 400k tokens.

Funnily enough Groks API charges less when you are below 400k tokens.

Half a million can get you reasonably far with enough of your codebase within the models context window.

I lowkey blame the 1m context window as the start of Anthropics worse woes earlier this year.

conception•about 1 hour ago

You can change your compaction token limit to 400k if you want.

CLAUDE_AUTOCOMPACT_PCT_OVERRIDE

And

CLAUDE_CODE_AUTO_COMPACT_WINDOW

CPLX•about 3 hours ago

Casinos don't have clocks in them.