Claude Code Fuel Gauge

Claude Code Fuel Gauge

**Everything Claude Code makes you stop and type a slash command to check — context, cache, model, effort, usage — sits in your VS Code status bar instead. Every session, every window, no commands.**

• Context % — how full your window is, live from 0% and color-coded green → yellow → red. Covers claude sessions in the integrated terminal, which Claude Code's own indicator doesn't. No /context.
• Cache countdown — time until your prompt cache goes cold and your next message turns slow (pricier too, on an API key). Nothing else surfaces this.
• Model · effort — which model each session runs, at what reasoning effort (gold at max). Seeing opus·max on a medium-sized task is what makes you dial it down — and effort is a big lever on tokens burned. No /model.
• Usage limits — session (5-hour) and weekly usage in the hover, with an alert dot when a limit crosses 70%. No /usage.
• One per window, always on — several sessions across projects, each window shows its own. No network calls, no telemetry, ever.

What's in the status bar

Fuel Gauge shows up to four items, right-aligned, and on