ClaudeStatsBar Tool Shows Claude AI Session Token Usage in Real Time

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A developer has released ClaudeStatsBar, an open-source tool hosted on GitHub under Field Logic Ltd. The utility tracks and displays token usage during Claude AI sessions, alerting users to how deep into a session's context window they are. The tool addresses a gap in Claude's native interface, which does not proactively inform users of their token consumption. It was shared on Hacker News, where it garnered modest early attention from the developer community.

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