Claude Modern Status Bar

claude-modern-status-bar

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A native C status line for [Claude Code](https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/claude-code) on Windows. Single ~430-line source file, compiles to a ~160 KB self-contained `.exe`, renders in **~21 ms** per invocation — roughly **70× faster** than the bash + python + git + awk pipeline most people start with.


What you get

folder  |  branch  |  model  |  [bar] 47%  |  5h 23% · 4h 26m  |  wk 41%

• Folder — basename of the current working directory (bold blue)
• Branch — current git branch, or short SHA if detached HEAD (cyan)
• Model — the active Claude model from Claude Code's input JSON (purple)
• Context bar — 30-char bar showing free space remaining before auto-compact, with the matching percentage (bold pink)
• 5-hour usage — the same percentage /usage shows for the rolling 5-hour limit, plus the time until it resets. White under 70%, yellow at 70–89%, red at 90%+. Reset countdown formats as 47m / 3h / 1h 47m / <1m. Omitted entirely if Claude Code doesn't pipe in the rate_limits.five_hour field; the countdown half is omitted independently if resets_at is missing or already in the past.
• Weekly usage — same as above for the rolling 7-day limit, without the countdown. Same color thresholds.
• Separator — gray vertical bar between segments

The context bar shows *free* space (not used), to match what Claude Code's `/context` command labels "Free space". The math accounts for the ~33 k-token autocompact buffer Claude Code reserves before auto-compaction fires — 16.5% on a 200 k window, 3.3% on a 1 M extended-context window. The reserve is computed from the `context_window_size` Claude Code reports, so it stays correct on any window size.

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