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Claude Code hides context usage; here's how to see it

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

Claude Code does not expose context window fullness or usage limits in its hooks API or plugin system. The only place this data appears is in the statusLine command's JSON payload. A new npm package, cc-context-telemetry, surfaces these metrics in the terminal prompt.

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Anthropic's opaque design forces developers to reverse-engineer basic telemetry—a fix that should be built-in, not bolted on.
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