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Re: Show HN: macOS menu bar gauges for your Claude Code quota

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devsda wrote: post #4
giancarlostoro wrote: post #2

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.

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.

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Re: Show HN: macOS menu bar gauges for your Claude Code quota

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Post by kaliara »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #2

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.

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!

Re: Show HN: macOS menu bar gauges for your Claude Code quota

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Post by ab-dm »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #2

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.

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.

Re: Show HN: macOS menu bar gauges for your Claude Code quota

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Post by grzracz »

tyleo wrote: post #14

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...

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!

Re: Show HN: macOS menu bar gauges for your Claude Code quota

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Post by tyleo »

grzracz wrote: post #15
tyleo wrote: post #14

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...

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!

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.

Re: Show HN: macOS menu bar gauges for your Claude Code quota

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Post by conception »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #6
grzracz wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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…

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

CLAUDE_AUTOCOMPACT_PCT_OVERRIDE

And

CLAUDE_CODE_AUTO_COMPACT_WINDOW

Re: Show HN: macOS menu bar gauges for your Claude Code quota

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Post by oefrha »

tyleo wrote: post #14

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...

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.
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