Been using Claude Code a lot recently and I kept alt-tabbing to the usage page during coding sessions just to see how much of the 5-hour limit I had left. Eventually got annoyed enough to make a tiny statusline script for it. Sonnet 4.6 │ main │ ████░░░░░░ 41% │ ctx 28k │ ↺ 3h22m It shows: model git branch usage % context tokens reset timer Nothing fancy — just a bash script. Claude Code already sends session JSON to the statusline script after every response, so this is basically just parsing that with jq and formatting it nicely. No API calls or background process. Install is: git clone https://github.com/namanpopli/claudepulse cd claudepulse bash install.sh Works on macOS/Linux and Windows through Git Bash or WSL. Repo: https://github.com/namanpopli/claudepulse Sharing in case someone else finds it useful too. 💦 is used to get your attention :P submitted by /u/namanpopli
Originally posted by u/namanpopli on r/ClaudeCode