My status line shows 5h and 7d quota usage among other things like model, context usage, git branch, etc. Unfortunately the whole status line disappears half of the time from CC’s broken ass UI.

Personally I have multiple instances of Claude on my PC dedicated to different areas (split between my private subscription and my work one) and it is useful to see both at a glance. And I don't have to keep the terminal open to see how much time is left for quota to be reset. But for single-Claude users this is indeed a valid solution!

Wasn't aware this exists, good one!

Something has gone haywire with that one recently and it constantly freezes and crashes.

Agree, and a lot of software on Mac tends to do the same thing: Codex, Claude Code, and so on. Fortunately, it’s just one of many options, and we can use Homebrew in 95% of cases.

P.S. Installing Homebrew is also officially done by running a shell script from GitHub.

While I agree it's not super safe, even CC is installed this way: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/quickstart

Funny you should mention homebrew in this complaint.

I wanted the same thing and recently saw this blog post on how to customize the bottom status bar: https://www.aimhuge.com/blog/claude-code-status-line.

I now show my current context window, five-hour quota, weekly quota, current branch and current PR.

It's quite handy!

Their documentation explains how to customize CC statusline and display the quotas: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/statusline#rate-limit-usage

From their perspective, they don't want

1. Standard tier users increasing their usage just to minimize "wasted" token credits.

2. Higher tier users with extra usage enabled to use and pay for those extra tokens instead of planning to stay within limits.

Doesn't it autocompact only if it is about to run out of context? On these newer models the context is 1M tokens so it's quite difficult to reach. I run compacts manually when I stop in a good place and tokens are over 300k

The Claude app has a usage indicator when you switch to code mode. I’ve been using this more and more now that their sandbox functionality has Improved.

Casinos don't have clocks in them.

It's literally a single file that only supports multiple Claude instances :) so I guess simplicity