context-bar
Your context window as one stacked bar above the prompt, a color per category, with token counts and where it compacts.
Install
claude plugin marketplace add hamzafer/claude-code-mods
claude plugin install context-bar@claude-code-modsRestart Claude Code after installing. To try it without installing, clone the repo and run claude --plugin-dir mods/context-bar.
How to use
/context-bar- Hides or shows the bar. The choice is kept across sessions
How it behaves
- One bar the width of the band, split by what fills the window: system prompt, tools, MCP tools, memory files, skills, messages, then free space and the compaction buffer.
- Each used category gets its own color, messages in orange. Free space is a thin grey line (─), and the compaction buffer is hatched (░).
- The header shows the tokens in use, the window, where auto-compaction runs, and the percent. The percent turns yellow at 70% of the compaction point and red at 90%.
- It refreshes after each of the main agent's turns and after a compaction, from the same breakdown /context draws, estimated locally (no extra API calls).
- Pairs with token-weather: that one tracks the trend and the cache, this one shows what the tokens are.