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@gwienerA minimal 5-slot block bar showing context-window usage with a green/yellow/red status dot.
MIT licensed · original source
Updated 2026-06-29
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Clean repo
5h ▓░░░░ 🟢
New session
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Dirty branch
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Near-full
5h ▓▓▓▓▓ 🔴
1M context
5h ▓▓▓░░ 🟡
Post-compact
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Worktree
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Non-git
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Source
#!/bin/bash
# Claude Code context-window status bar.
# Reads the Claude Code status line JSON from STDIN and renders
# a compact 5-slot bar for the context window (5h) usage.
set -euo pipefail
input=$(cat)
PCT=$(echo "$input" | jq -r '.context_window.used_percentage // 0' | cut -d. -f1)
# Build a 5-slot progress bar: each slot = 20%.
filled=$(( (PCT + 10) / 20 ))
[ "$filled" -gt 5 ] && filled=5
bar=""
for i in 1 2 3 4 5; do
if [ "$i" -le "$filled" ]; then
bar="${bar}▓"
else
bar="${bar}░"
fi
done
# Icon: green <50%, yellow 50-90%, red 90%+
if [ "$PCT" -ge 90 ]; then
icon="🔴"
elif [ "$PCT" -ge 50 ]; then
icon="🟡"
else
icon="🟢"
fi
printf "5h %s %s\n" "$bar" "$icon"
What it shows
- Context window usage as a five-slot block bar, one filled block per roughly 20% used
- A traffic-light dot for context usage: green under 50%, yellow from 50%, red from 90%
- A fixed '5h' text label at the start of the line
Requirements
- bash
- jq, used to parse the status line JSON from stdin
- cut, used to strip decimals from the percentage
- A terminal font that renders the block characters and the colored circle emoji
- No network access; the script declares no network hosts and makes no network calls
Behavior notes
- Only context_window.used_percentage changes the output; model, git repo, worktree, vim mode, PR state, cost, and rate limits are ignored and every scenario prints the same single-line format
- Blocks fill by rounding to the nearest 20%: 22% shows one block, 37% and 48% show two, 64% shows three, 91% shows all five
- The dot turns yellow at 64% usage and red at 91%; it stays green at 48% and below
- When used_percentage is null or missing (brand-new session, just after /compact), the jq fallback treats it as 0, printing an empty bar with a green dot and still exiting 0
- Despite the '5h' label, the bar tracks context-window usage, not the 5-hour rate limit: the post-/compact scenario had the 5-hour limit at 52% but printed an empty bar because context usage was null
More status lines
Dreambase Panel
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╭─ CONTEXT ────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ ████▊░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 22% of 200K · GOOD │
├─ STATS ──────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ ↓ 44.0K ↑ 1.4K │ $0.41 │ ⏱ 10m 12s │ +128/-34 │
├─ REPO ───────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ ◆ Opus 4.8 · main · 16:21 │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
Single-line usage
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app · main · Opus-4.8 · effort high · ctx 22% · 5h 26% ↻2h6m · 7d 7% ↻2d0hPace Dot Meters
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Opus 4.8 [high] ~/app main
16:20:55 | ⛁ ██░░░░░░░░ 22% | 5h ●◔○○○ 26% ↻2h7m | 7d ◔○○○○○○ 7% ↻2d1h │ $0.41 ⏱ 10m
Catppuccin Frappé
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Opus 4.8 │ main │ app │ ▓▓░░░░░░░░ 44k/200k │ $0.41
Activity Feed
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Opus 4.8 high ✦ │ ctx 22% │ app (main) │ PR #1287 ● │ $0.41 · 10m +128 -34
Session ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ○ ○ ○ 74% left Resets in 2h 6m
Weekly ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ○ 93% left Resets in 2d 0h
Fable ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ○ ○ 85% left Resets in 2d 0h
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Dreambase Flat
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████▊░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 22% of 200K · GOOD │ ↓ 44.0K ↑ 1.4K │ $0.41 │ ⏱ 10m 12s │ +128/-34 │ ◆ Opus 4.8 · main · 16:22