How does the status line update?

It reads session JSON data from stdin during your Claude Code session and updates the status line dynamically as you interact with the agent.

What specific metrics does the Cost Status skill track?

It monitors and displays current session costs, accumulated monthly spending, total lifetime expenditures, and current token context usage.

What are the system requirements for this skill?

The plugin requires Bash version 4 or higher, and the command-line utilities 'jq' and 'awk' must be installed on your system.

Where is the cost tracking data stored?

All cost data is stored locally on your machine in the ~/.claude/cost-tracking.json file for privacy and easy access.

Claude Cost Status Monitor

Name: Claude Cost Status Monitor
Author: DeevsDeevs

byDeevsDeevs

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Analíticas y Monitorización

Monitors and displays real-time Claude Code session costs, monthly spending, and token context usage directly in the terminal status line.

The Cost Status skill integrates a specialized status-line plugin into Claude Code to provide immediate visibility into API expenditures and resource consumption. By tracking session-specific, monthly, and total costs alongside token context usage, it helps developers manage their AI budget and avoid unexpected overages during intensive development sessions. The skill automates the configuration of cost-tracking files and ensures the status line is correctly formatted for continuous, glanceable feedback.

Características Principales

01Real-time session cost tracking

02Monthly and total expenditure accumulation

03Context window and token usage visualization

0429 GitHub stars

05Persistent logging to local JSON storage

06Automatic status line configuration for Claude Code

Casos de Uso

01Monitoring API costs during large-scale automated refactoring tasks

02Optimizing context usage to stay within model limits during long sessions

03Managing and budgeting monthly AI development expenses

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add deevsdeevs/agent-system cost-status

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

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