---
title: "Introducing: usage-band 🎉 A Claude Code mod that puts your usage right above th"
url: "https://claudemods.dev/en/builds/introducing-usage-band-a-claude-code-mod-that-puts-your-usag-63973f"
source: "https://github.com/Rishit30G/usage-band"
source_type: "github"
repo: "https://github.com/Rishit30G/usage-band"
author: "Rishit Gupta 🗽"
author_handle: "rishit30g"
stars: 1
category: "Usage & costs"
categories: ["cost"]
tags: ["context-window", "cost", "plugin", "statusline", "usage-tracking"]
permission_level: 3
scan_complete: true
install: "claude plugin marketplace add Rishit30G/usage-band\nclaude plugin install usage-band@rishit-plugins"
added: "2026-10-12T00:30:01.282Z"
updated: "2026-10-12T00:30:01.282Z"
locale: "en"
content_locale: "en"
---

# Introducing: usage-band 🎉 A Claude Code mod that puts your usage right above th

A Claude Code mod that puts your usage right above th

## Description

Introducing: usage-band 🎉 

A Claude Code mod that puts your usage right above the prompt

🤖 Shows the model you’re on

📊 Context window bar: green, then amber, then red as it fills

⏳ 5-hour plan limit, reset time, and a ▲ warning if your pace would hit it first

🧊 Prompt cache timer and hit %, read from real API data

💰 Session cost at API prices

✂️ “Summarize & new” button: Haiku writes a hand-off summary, clears the session, and drops it in your prompt box

How is it different from a traditional status line?

📝 A status line is a script that prints text. A mod runs inside Claude Code

🖱️ It has a clickable button, which a status line can’t do

⚡ The cache countdown ticks every second instead of only refreshing on updates

🔌 It reads usage, limits, and cost from the plugin hooks API, so there’s no hardcoded price table

🖥️ Works in the terminal and the desktop app’s Code tab

Install:
claude plugin marketplace add Rishit30G/usage-band
claude plugin install usage-band@rishit-plugins

Open source: https://t.co/zmpN0mwG9M

🎬 Made a video about it, built with Claude Opus 5.5

## Install

```
claude plugin marketplace add Rishit30G/usage-band
claude plugin install usage-band@rishit-plugins
```

## Original README

Introducing: usage-band 🎉 

A Claude Code mod that puts your usage right above the prompt

🤖 Shows the model you’re on

📊 Context window bar: green, then amber, then red as it fills

⏳ 5-hour plan limit, reset time, and a ▲ warning if your pace would hit it first

🧊 Prompt cache timer and hit %, read from real API data

💰 Session cost at API prices

✂️ “Summarize & new” button: Haiku writes a hand-off summary, clears the session, and drops it in your prompt box

How is it different from a traditional status line?

📝 A status line is a script that prints text. A mod runs inside Claude Code

🖱️ It has a clickable button, which a status line can’t do

⚡ The cache countdown ticks every second instead of only refreshing on updates

🔌 It reads usage, limits, and cost from the plugin hooks API, so there’s no hardcoded price table

🖥️ Works in the terminal and the desktop app’s Code tab

Install:
claude plugin marketplace add Rishit30G/usage-band
claude plugin install usage-band@rishit-plugins

Open source: https://t.co/zmpN0mwG9M

🎬 Made a video about it, built with Claude Opus 5.5