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token-weather

A live forecast of the context window, in the band above the prompt. /token-weather turns it on or off.

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★ 1v0.2.0no licenseupdated 2026-10-02hamza-siddiq/token-showers/token-weather
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README

☂ Token Showers

A weather forecast for your Claude Code context window, live in the band above the prompt.

Token Weather's band: Clear, Showers, Storm, each with its token count and a chart of recent turns

This is a working implementation of Token Weather, the mod shown in Anthropic's Getting started with Claude Code mods. It looks and behaves like the one in the post: install it and the forecast shows up in your terminal.

Watch the demo: the band turns from Clear to Showers to Storm as Claude reads more files

<sub>▶ <a href="https://claude.dev/media/eccd73c962a5b22578cf5bfd4fa214f6ecd9e602a1cb8df519db737b99932f05.mp4">Watch the demo video</a>, or click the image above (from the claude.dev blog).</sub>

Install

Inside Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add hamza-siddiq/token-showers
/plugin install token-weather@token-showers

That's it. The band appears after your next turn, and in every session after that.

Turn it on and off

/token-weather is a switch: type it bare to flip the band off or back on.

CommandDoes
/token-weatherflips it: on → off, off → on
/token-weather on / offsets it
/token-weather statussays which

It runs right away, even while Claude is mid-turn, and your choice is remembered: a session started with it off stays off until you turn it back on. Readings keep coming in while it's off, so the chart is whole when it comes back, and switching it on mid-session shows the band at once.

The forecast

Context usedForecast
under 25%☀ Clear
25–50%☁ Cloudy
50–75%☂ Showers
75–90%☇ Storm
90%+↯ Compact soon

Each reading shows:

  • the forecast, coloured to match (yellow, cyan, blue, magenta, red)
  • the percent of context used, e.g. 67% of context
  • the tokens used out of the window, e.g. 134.4k / 200k
  • on wide terminals (60+ columns), a sparkline of your last 12 turns and the change since the last one (▲ +12.3k last turn, ▼ 120k last turn after a compaction, or steady)

You can see the next /compact coming before it happens.

How it works

It's a small Claude Code mod: one ui.render hook draws the AbovePrompt band, and one reading per turn is kept in $.state. session.start registers the /token-weather command; the switch is kept in the mod's own $.store, so it survives between sessions.

token-weather/
├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json
├── hooks/
│   ├── hooks.json
│   ├── register.tsx   # the band and /token-weather
│   └── forecast.ts    # weather, token formatting, sparkline, trend, the switch
├── tests/token-weather.test.ts
└── types/index.d.ts   # the $.state contract (readings, the switch)

Try it without installing

git clone https://github.com/hamza-siddiq/token-showers
claude --plugin-dir token-showers/token-weather

Develop

claude plugin validate token-weather
claude plugin test token-weather

PRs welcome: new weather, other surfaces, better thresholds.


Inspired by the Token Weather example from the claude.dev blog. Images and the demo video are from that post.

Source 3 files
hooks/register.tsx 106 lines
1import { atom, read, update } from 'claude-code'
2import type { EngineInterface, Register } from 'claude-code'
3
4import type { Reading } from '../types'
5import { CHART_COLUMNS, HISTORY, formatTokens, sparkline, switchFor, trend, weatherFor } from './forecast'
6
7const COMMAND = 'token-weather'
8const USAGE = `Usage: /${COMMAND} [on|off|status]  (bare toggles)`
9
10// Held by the host, so the history survives a hot reload of this file.
11const readings = atom({ plugin: 'token-weather', key: 'readings' } as const, [] as Reading[])
12
13// The switch lives in $.store (kept between sessions); this mirrors it so the band redraws the moment it flips.
14const isOn = atom({ plugin: 'token-weather', key: 'isOn' } as const, true)
15
16// With no reading yet (loaded or switched on mid-session), take the live fill so the band shows at once.
17const seed = async ($: EngineInterface) => {
18  if ((await read($, readings)).length > 0) return
19  const { tokens, window, percent } = (await $.session.usage()).context
20  if (tokens === undefined || window <= 0) return
21  const reading: Reading = { tokens, window, percent: percent ?? Math.round((tokens / window) * 100) }
22  await update($, readings, list => (list.length > 0 ? list : [reading]))
23}
24
25export const register: Register = on => {
26  // Fires at session start, and again whenever the mod is enabled or reloaded mid-session.
27  on('session.start', async ($, e, next) => {
28    await $.command.register({
29      name: COMMAND,
30      description: 'Turn the context forecast above the prompt on or off (remembered across sessions)',
31      argumentHint: '[on|off|status]',
32      immediate: true,
33    })
34    const wasLeftOn = (await $.store.get('isOn')) !== false
35    await update($, isOn, () => wasLeftOn)
36    if (wasLeftOn) await seed($)
37    return next(e)
38  })
39
40  on('command.run', { command: COMMAND }, async ($, e) => {
41    const wasOn = await read($, isOn)
42    const choice = switchFor(e.args, wasOn)
43
44    if (choice === null) return { text: USAGE }
45    if (choice === 'status') {
46      return { text: `Token weather is ${wasOn ? 'on' : 'off'}. ${USAGE}` }
47    }
48
49    await $.store.set('isOn', choice)
50    await update($, isOn, () => choice)
51    if (!choice) return { text: 'Token weather off. Stays off in new sessions until /token-weather on.' }
52
53    await seed($)
54    const hasReading = (await read($, readings)).length > 0
55    return {
56      text: `Token weather on${hasReading ? '' : ': the forecast shows after the next turn'}. Stays on in new sessions.`,
57    }
58  })
59
60  // After each main-thread turn the engine measures the session; take the context's fill.
61  // Kept while off too, so switching back on shows the whole chart.
62  on('session.measure', async ($, e, next) => {
63    const { tokens, window, percent } = e.context
64
65    if (e.changed.includes('context') && tokens !== undefined && window > 0) {
66      const reading: Reading = {
67        tokens,
68        window,
69        percent: percent ?? Math.round((tokens / window) * 100),
70      }
71      await update($, readings, list => [...list, reading].slice(-HISTORY))
72    }
73
74    return next(e)
75  })
76
77  on('ui.render', { component: 'AbovePrompt' }, async ($, e, next) => {
78    if (!(await read($, isOn))) return next(e)
79
80    const history = await read($, readings)
81    const now = history[history.length - 1]
82
83    if (e.props.hasSurvey || now === undefined) {
84      return next(e)
85    }
86
87    const { Box, Text } = $.ui.resolve(e)
88    const weather = weatherFor(now.percent)
89    const change = trend(history)
90    const isWide = e.props.bodyColumns >= CHART_COLUMNS
91
92    return (
93      <Box flexDirection="row" paddingX={1}>
94        <Text color={weather.color} bold>
95          {`${weather.icon}  ${weather.word}`}
96        </Text>
97        <Text>{`  ${now.percent}% of context`}</Text>
98        <Text dimColor>{`  ${formatTokens(now.tokens)} / ${formatTokens(now.window)}`}</Text>
99        {isWide && <Text dimColor>{'   last turns '}</Text>}
100        {isWide && <Text color={weather.color}>{sparkline(history)}</Text>}
101        {isWide && change !== null && <Text dimColor>{change}</Text>}
102      </Box>
103    )
104  })
105}
106
hooks/forecast.ts 52 lines
1import type { Reading } from '../types'
2
3export type Weather = { icon: string; word: string; color: string }
4
5const BARS = '▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█'
6
7/** The readings kept, one per turn: the chart draws them all. */
8export const HISTORY = 12
9
10/** Below this the band drops the chart and the trend. */
11export const CHART_COLUMNS = 60
12
13export const weatherFor = (percent: number): Weather => {
14  if (percent < 25) return { icon: '☀', word: 'Clear', color: 'yellow' }
15  if (percent < 50) return { icon: '☁', word: 'Cloudy', color: 'cyan' }
16  if (percent < 75) return { icon: '☂', word: 'Showers', color: 'blue' }
17  if (percent < 90) return { icon: '☇', word: 'Storm', color: 'magenta' }
18  return { icon: '↯', word: 'Compact soon', color: 'red' }
19}
20
21/** 134400 → "134.4k", 200000 → "200k", 1000000 → "1M". */
22export const formatTokens = (n: number): string => {
23  if (n >= 1_000_000) return `${+(n / 1_000_000).toFixed(1)}M`
24  if (n >= 1_000) return `${+(n / 1_000).toFixed(1)}k`
25  return String(n)
26}
27
28/** One bar per turn, scaled to the fullest turn kept (▁ … █). */
29export const sparkline = (readings: readonly Reading[]): string => {
30  const top = Math.max(...readings.map(r => r.tokens), 1)
31  return readings.map(r => BARS[Math.floor((r.tokens / top) * (BARS.length - 1))]).join('')
32}
33
34/** "  ▲ +98.3k last turn", "  ▼ 120k last turn" after a compaction, "  steady"; null before a second turn. */
35export const trend = (readings: readonly Reading[]): string | null => {
36  const [before, after] = readings.slice(-2)
37  if (before === undefined || after === undefined) return null
38  const delta = after.tokens - before.tokens
39  if (delta === 0) return '  steady'
40  return delta > 0 ? `  ▲ +${formatTokens(delta)} last turn` : `  ▼ ${formatTokens(-delta)} last turn`
41}
42
43/** `/token-weather` with its args: bare or "toggle" flips the switch; "status" reads it; null for anything else. */
44export const switchFor = (args: string, isOn: boolean): boolean | 'status' | null => {
45  const word = args.trim().toLowerCase()
46  if (word === '' || word === 'toggle') return !isOn
47  if (word === 'on') return true
48  if (word === 'off') return false
49  if (word === 'status') return 'status'
50  return null
51}
52
types/index.d.ts 8 lines
1export type Reading = { tokens: number; window: number; percent: number }
2
3declare module 'claude-code' {
4  interface PluginState {
5    'token-weather': { readings: Reading[]; isOn: boolean }
6  }
7}
8