Best Claude Code statuslines

The latest test, lint and build runs: whether each passed, how long it took and how long ago.

Context growth per turn as a chart, with a prediction of how many turns are left before compaction.

A status line under the prompt: context, cache hit rate, cache TTL countdown, today's spend for this project, and why a turn missed the cache. /usage prints the project ledger.

A Claude Code widget mod that adds a star to a night sky each turn and joins them into a named constellation after nine.

A tally of this session's permission checks: what was allowed, what you were asked about and what was denied.

Shows context fill and usage limits in the footer under the prompt in the desktop app, where no status line exists

A Claude Code mod that renders the context window as a stacked bar, with one colour per /context category and six view modes toggled by /context-widget.

Pinned notes that stay on screen and survive restarts; add one with /note.

A Claude Code plugin that draws the transcript row of an answer the workflow-gates mod sent as the question and the answer, replacing Claude Code's framing of a plugin's prompt, with rows persisted per conversation.

Claude Code mod widget that renders the project directory as an expandable file tree card beneath the prompt.

A Claude Code widget mod that renders a pixel map of tracked repository files, lighting blue where Claude has read and green where it has edited.

Live progress bars above the prompt for multi-step work: one row per plan, with stages, percent, waiting and failed colors, and sounds