If you use Claude Code regularly, you’ve probably wondered mid-session how close you are to your rate limits or how many tokens you’ve burned through. Claude Code Status Line is a small shell script I built to surface that information right in your terminal status bar — without adding any overhead to Claude Code itself.
It runs as an external command, so it never slows down your workflow or consumes extra tokens. At a glance it shows the current model, your working directory and git branch, context window usage, reasoning effort level, and both your 5-hour and 7-day rate limit usage with color-coded progress bars that shift from green to red as you approach the limit.
I find it especially useful during long coding sessions where I want to pace myself and avoid hitting the rate limit at a critical moment. The usage data is cached for 60 seconds so it stays responsive without hammering the Anthropic API.
The project is open source — all the details and installation instructions are in the README on GitHub. If you find it useful, a ⭐ star on the repo would mean a lot! And if you have any questions or feedback, feel free to drop a comment below — I’d love to hear how you’re using it.