statusline

One line under the prompt with what matters.

It comes with the pack and is on from the start.

The moment

You are deep in a session and wonder how full the conversation is, and how much of your plan’s limit is left.

Without statusline

Claude Code doesn’t show either at a glance. You find out when it compacts, or when you hit the limit.

With statusline

One line under the prompt: the model and its effort, how full the conversation is, how much of your plan’s 5-hour and weekly limits you have used and when each resets, and what other mods add, such as smart-compact’s ready or cold. On a narrow terminal it drops the least important parts first.

This is what you would see. Make the terminal narrower and watch which parts go first.

What we measured

Nothing to measure: it only adds a view. It draws nothing in a headless run, so our benchmarks never see it.

Where it doesn’t help

A session watched over Remote Control from the phone or the web gets no line. Where no line can be drawn, the same text becomes the session’s status.

Turn it on or off

placement moves it above the prompt or into Claude Code’s hint, and /mods statusline off turns it off. Every option is in the README; the code is in statusline/.

In a real session

A real Claude Code session: under the prompt the status line shows the model, the context, the plan’s 5-hour and weekly use and a green ready dot; above it, a background job with a bar and a finish time.