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Plugin

Status line: cost, rate limits, prompt-cache TTL

A dashboard strip under the AI chat showing spend, usage limits and how long until its memory cache expires.

built Oct 2026 updated Oct 2026 Upgrading the AI's workbench

how it works

uv script status line with cached Anthropic status/online probes, per-window rate-limit bars that dim when stale, prompt-cache hit rate + TTL countdown (shared with fleet-band), and per-session billing snapshots that feed claude-usage.

Plugin: An add-on that extends another tool.

The code for this one lives in a private repo. This page explains the idea so you can build your own.

costobservabilitystatusline

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