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Context Health Bar — Development skill for Claude Code

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A Chrome extension that visualizes Claude context health as a compact orb and helps you hand off long chats to a fresh conversation.

How to install Context Health Bar

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

What Context Health Bar does

A Chrome extension that visualizes Claude context health as a compact orb and helps you hand off long chats to a fresh conversation.

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README

Context Health Bar for Claude

A Chrome extension that visualizes Claude context health as a compact orb and helps you hand off long chats to a fresh conversation.

![Orb UI](docs/screenshots/refresh_context.png)

What It Does

Context Health Bar gives a real-time, heuristic signal for when Claude may start degrading due to instruction drift and long context. It does not read Claude's internal state and does not track or send data anywhere.

![Hover Panel](docs/screenshots/yellow_50.png)

Features

Compact orb UI with colored ring and percentage (green, yellow, red)
Hover panel with char/token/message stats
Manual pinning of important user messages
Auto-detect core instructions
Refresh Context handoff (opens a new chat with a formatted summary)
Copy Handoff button (clipboard fallback)
Auto-load history (pulls older messages into the DOM)
Handoff detail level: compact / standard / rich

Installation (Local)

Open chrome://extensions/
Enable Developer mode
Click "Load unpacked"
Select this folder

Usage

The orb appears at the top-right. Hover to see stats and settings.
Click Refresh Context when health drops. It opens a new Claude chat and inserts a formatted handoff.
Click Copy Handoff if you want to paste the handoff manually.
Hover over a user message to pin it; pinned messages are treated as core instructions.

Release Zip (GitHub)

Create a clean zip for releases:

.\scripts\package.ps1

This outputs `dist\context-health-bar.zip`. Upload that file to a GitHub Release.

How Health Is Calculated

Health starts at 100 and drops based on three factors:

Instruction distance
- If the last core instruction is far back in the conversation, health drops.
- If no instructions are detected, a small penalty ramps with length.
Length penalty (uses the maximum of these three):
- Token estimate (chars / 4)
- Visible conversation character count
- Message count
Noise penalty