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source at e6da26c

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MIT licence

Live session cost odometer above the prompt: a burning fuse, real-world comparisons, threshold alerts

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Or run it yourself:

claude plugin marketplace add https://statuslin.es/marketplace.json
claude plugin install burn-meter@statuslines

Preview

Terminal

BURN ▁ ▂ *▂▆ ▃ $0.41 = 0.04 burritos [-] 5h 26% in 2h 5m ▅▄█▅▅▆█▆███▅█ opus 4.8 44k in 1k out wk 7% in 2d 0h █████████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ lifetime $0.41 hide ❯ 

Claude Desktop

Burn Meter in Claude Desktop

What it does

A live cost meter above the prompt: a growing fire bar for session spend, your 5-hour and weekly plan limits, and the cost converted into McDoubles or burritos.

Shows up
A three-line cost band above the prompt
Works in
Terminal and Claude Desktop
Commands
/burn
Uses your plan
No
Changes files
Nothing
Network
None

How it works

  1. Draws a band above the prompt when a session starts and adds the /burn command
  2. Notes the session cost each time you send a prompt, to work out what that turn cost
  3. After each turn, adds its tokens and cost to a per-turn chart
  4. /burn opens a pane with per-turn cost, or toggles the band

Good to know

  • A toast appears when your spend crosses a threshold.
  • Your lifetime spend is kept between sessions in Claude Code's own plugin storage.

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Terminal

[-] zZ ▀▄ ▄▀ ▄▄▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▀▀▀▄▄▄ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ctx 22% [ Pet ♥ ] [ ⚙ ] [ ↻ Adventurer ] [ Hide ] ❯ 

Claude Desktop

Pixel Cat in Claude Desktop

A little pixel cat that wanders above the Claude Code prompt, watches your usage limits and announces when work finishes; or switch packs for an adventurer who mines, chops trees and fights zombies

Terminal

╭─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮ [-] │ ◆ context 44k of 200k · compacts at 167k 22% │ │ ████████████████████────────────────────────────────────────────────────────░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ■ system prompt 1.9k 1% ■ system tools 28k 14% ■ skills 2k 1% ■ messages 12k 6% │ │ ─ free space 123k ░ autocompact buffer 33k │ ╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯ ❯ 

Claude Desktop

Context Bar in Claude Desktop

Your context window as a stacked bar above the prompt, a color per category, with token counts and the compaction point. /context-bar shows or hides it.

Opus 4.8 [high] ~/app main 16:20:55 | ⛁ ██░░░░░░░░ 22% | 5h ●◔○○○ 26% ↻2h7m | 7d ◔○○○○○○ 7% ↻2d1h │ $0.41 ⏱ 10m

Two-line status with a block context bar and quarter-step dot meters (◔◑◕●) for the 5-hour and weekly limits (fill shows usage, color shows whether you are ahead of or behind pace), plus model, effort, git and cost. Needs no jq.

Activity Feed

Status line

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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 ◐ Read:index.ts ✓ Read×1 ✓ Bash×1 ✓ Edit×1 ✓ Grep×1 ◐ code-reviewer Review the change for regressions

A header with model, context and burn rate per hour, then live tool and agent activity parsed from the session transcript.

Model: Opus 4.8 | Thinking: high | Context: [▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱] 45k/200k (22%) | cwd: ~/app | ⎇ main | (+0,-0) Cost: $0.41 | Block: 2hr 6m | Weekly: 7.0% | Session: 10m | In: 916.7 t/s | Out: 29.2 t/s | Cached: 2k | Session: [▰▱▱▱▱] 26.0% Mem: 0.8G/1.0G | (*゚∀゚*) | Session ID: b8e1c0d2-4a6f-4e2a-9c1b-3f5d7a9e2c10

Three lines in One Dark: model, thinking effort and a context bar up top; cost, quota, session clock and token throughput in the middle; weather, free memory and a rotating kaomoji below.

Opus 4.8 (200K) high | app (main) ██░░░░░░░░ 22% 200K | 5h 26% ⇣32% 2h 7d 7% ⇣63% 2d

Are you burning quota faster than the clock? Five-hour and seven-day usage with over- and under-pace arrows, plus a context bar and git diff stats. Reads rate limits from stdin only.