I just used Claude to write a plug-in which changed the bottom of the CLI to say:
( ) Usage: 34% (resets in 2h 47m) Context: 56% [Opus 4.6]
auto mode on (shift+tab to cycle)
I coupled that with a hook that watches for usage spiking (basically when I've been talking too long or did something to add a ton of context, so suddenly every turn sends a ton of context back, using up a ton of usage).
Between the two I haven't hit usage caps in weeks.
I have something like this persistent in my waybar, with session, weekly, and fable usage, with little color coded percentage bars for each. Super helpful, highly recommend it.
Great idea on the hook alert.
I feel like the advent of LLMs has made a super customizable OS like Linux so, so much better than the closed source alternatives, and so much better than they were before.
This is actually a built-in Claude Code feature: `/statusline` will ask how you want it to look and set it up for you.
A) Oh nice! that's cool
B) Warning everyone, it slowly eats tokens - If you're like me and on the pro plan, perhaps not a good idea to have its (albeit slow) drain on the tokens.
I didn't think statusline ate tokens, is this true?
Wanna share?