Show HN: ClaudeStatsBar: your session is 486k deep and nothing told you
ClaudeStatsBar is a new tool designed to monitor the context window usage of Claude Code sessions in real-time. It helps developers understand the cost and capacity of their sessions to avoid hitting limits mid-task.
Why it matters
As LLM-based coding agents become more prevalent, managing context window efficiency is critical for cost control and workflow continuity.
A Claude Code status line for the number that actually bites. Not how full the context window is - Claude Code will tell you that in one command - but what the next turn costs before you type a word, and when it is worth clearing rather than finding the limit mid-task.
Opus 5 (1M context) · my-project · ▕██████░░░░░░▏ 486k · 49k/turn · 88t · 5h 15% ~162t left · 7d 3% ⚠ 486k context — every turn now costs 49k before you type. /clear if you have switched task, /compact to keep going Pure Python stdlib. No dependencies, no network, no transcript parsing, no proxy. ~25ms per render.
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