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CC Statusline puts Claude costs in terminal

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CC Statusline puts Claude costs in terminal
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CC Statusline puts Claude costs in terminal

cc-statusline is an open-source Claude Code statusline dashboard that surfaces active model, session cost, token/context usage, quota bars, agents, MCP health, and recent message history directly in the CLI. It targets developers who want budget and context visibility without interrupting their coding flow.

// ANALYSIS

This is a small but practical quality-of-life tool for heavy Claude Code users: cost anxiety and context blindness are real workflow taxes, and the terminal is the right place to expose both.

  • The project goes beyond a simple cost ticker, aggregating all-session and current-session spend, token counts, quota windows, compact counts, and git context.
  • Hook support adds richer session awareness, including subagent tracking, edited files, message history, and auto-generated session summaries.
  • The tradeoff is setup complexity: users need Claude Code statusLine config plus optional hooks, so this is most useful for power users already comfortable editing CLI settings.
  • The broader signal is clear: AI coding tools are spawning their own observability layer as developers start treating token burn, context state, and rate limits like first-class dev metrics.
// TAGS
cc-statuslineclaude-codeclidevtoolai-codingopen-source

DISCOVERED

45d ago

2026-04-23

PUBLISHED

45d ago

2026-04-23

RELEVANCE

7/ 10

AUTHOR

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