Feb 24
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Are you flying blind with your Claude Code context window? In this tutorial, I'll show you exactly how to transform your plain Claude Code terminal into a powerful dashboard that displays your model, progress bar, context percentage, and token consumption in real-time. Most developers don't realize that exceeding context thresholds leads to lower AI accuracy. By setting up this status line, you'll always know exactly where you stand—and I'll even show you how to optimize your initial context usage by removing redundant plugins. 🔧 What You'll Learn: - Install jq (command line JSON processor) - Configure a global status line with a simple prompt - Customize colors and themes to your preference - Monitor real-time token consumption and context percentage - Investigate and reduce initial context window usage - Optimize Claude Code for higher AI accuracy ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 RESOURCES & LINKS 📁 FREE Resource: I've created a ready-to-use MD file that you can paste directly into Claude Code to set this up instantly. Join our free Discord community to access it (link below). 💬 Free Community & Support Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/erictech 📅 Work With Me - New Projects - Free Strategy Call: https://calendar.app.google/sB9KrJP6e8j3EPmd9 - Technical Consultation (Paid 1:1): https://calendar.app.google/BU9D589X3KNxnTeg6 🤝 Let's Connect LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericwtech/ 🔗 Mentioned in this Video: - jq JSON Processor Download: https://jqlang.github.io/jq/download/ - Checkout Testsprite here: https://www.testsprite.com/?via=eric-tech ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ Chapters: 0:00 Status Line Before & After 0:35 Why Context Monitoring Matters 1:43 Installing jq on Mac/Linux 2:15 Configuring /statusline Command 3:13 Fixing Token Display Issues 6:04 Quick Setup Method (Free Template) 7:30 Live Demo: Context Monitoring 12:21 Reducing Initial Context Usage 15:22 Wrap Up #ClaudeCode #AIProductivity #DeveloperTools