context-bar

A footer for Claude Code. In the slot right of the hint line under the prompt, it shows:

• Cache: how much of the last prompt the cache served, and roughly how long until it expires: 99% ~58m, then cold once it has lapsed or after a compaction.
  • Whether your account caches for 5 minutes or an hour is worked out from the requests themselves, and remembered between sessions.
• Model and effort: ◆ Opus 5.5 (1M) ▆ high, colored by model family and by effort level. Click either one to get a row of chips and pick another. This runs /model or /effort for you.
• Context: how full the context window is, in a bar that is green under 30%, orange under 60% and red after that.
  • After a compaction or a /clear, and in a fresh session, Claude Code has no measured figure until the next response. Meanwhile the bar shows Claude Code's own local estimate (the one /context makes), marked with ~.
• Compact ⇊ and clear ⌫: one click asks first (clear context? yes no). The question goes away by itself after five seconds, so a stray click does nothing.

On a narrow terminal the labels shorten, and when one row can't hold everything the blocks stack.

What other mods put in the same slot, such as warm-compact's on/off chip, goes at the right end of the row, along with the engine's own mode labels.

Install

claude plugin marketplace add ziedgithub/claude-code-mods && claude plugin install context-bar@zied-mods

Then restart Claude Code.

See the repository README for running it from a clone.