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Context Meter — AI skill for Claude Code

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A tiny status-line script that renders a colored context-window bar under your AI coding agent's prompt.

How to install Context Meter

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open ethanplusai/context-meter and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Context Meter does

A tiny status-line script that renders a colored context-window bar under your AI coding agent's prompt. Claude Code + Codex CLI.

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README

context-meter

A tiny status-line script that renders a colored context-window bar under your AI coding agent's prompt.

![context-meter bar at four color thresholds](docs/preview.svg)

<50% green · 50–65% yellow · 65–80% orange · 80%+ red
The percentage is normalized to usable context: 100% lines up with the auto-compact threshold, not the absolute window.
Single file, no dependencies, no npm install.

Supported tools

Tool	What you get	Status
Claude Code	The full custom bar from `statusline.js` — green/yellow/orange/red thresholds, normalized to the auto-compact buffer.	✅ tested in CI
Codex CLI	Codex's built-in `context_usage` indicator. Codex has no command-backed status-line hook yet (openai/codex#17827), so we can't run the same script there — but the installer optionally enables Codex's own context display so you still see progress.	✅ tested in CI