See where it leaks. Stop paying for it.
A live dashboard right in your status line — surfacing what Claude Code hides: the cost of every turn, what your subagents spend, how long your cache stays alive, plus the usual limits, context and git.
Stop overpaying for inefficiency you can't see. Spend your limits on purpose.
Install in one command:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/labzink/cc-probeline/main/scripts/install.sh | sh
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What the probe pulls out
Most status lines count things — tokens, turns, running agents. The probe prices them. Everything below comes out of your session's local log: data Claude Code has, but never shows you.
- Every turn, priced — not one opaque session total: a live table where each step lands with its own cost.
- What your subagents spend — subagent work is invisible while it runs. The probe puts each agent on the bill, live, next to your own turns.
- Cache rebuilds, in dollars — idle past the TTL (60 min for the orchestrator, 5 for subagents), and your next turn quietly rewrites the whole cache. The probe ages it live (⏱ 60m → 0m) and prices the rebuild when it hits.
- Extra usage in money, not percent — past 100% of your plan, the overage shows up in dollars before the invoice does.
- Prices that stay correct — your dollars are only as honest as the price table behind them. cc-probeline refreshes its rates over the network — one optional, opt-out check a day, never during render — so when Anthropic changes prices your totals follow within a day, no reinstall. Offline or opted out, it falls back to the table baked into the build.
- 5h / 7d limits with reset clocks — watch them fill, know exactly when they free up.
- Colour-coded zones — numbers shift colour as they enter warning and critical territory, so the line catches your eye exactly when it should.
- Plus the table stakes: model, context, git, session time.
Every turn lands on its own line — orchestrator and subagents alike — priced as it happens. Finally you see where every dollar of your reasoning actually goes.
Built to fit your terminal. Don't like a segment, the colours, or the width? The /cc-probeline-config wizard walks you through it and writes the config for you — no hand-editing TOML. (That's the hint at the bottom of the dashboard above.)
The moment you cross 100%, you'll see it — and the extra bill stays under your control.
You get warned while there's still time to act — not after you've hit the wall.
Cache rebuilds stop being silent — you see the price the moment they happen.
And nothing about your session ever leaves your machine — that's why it's called a probe.
Why it's called a probe
A probe is an instrument of observation, not intervention. Everything cc-probeline does is read and display — it never reaches into your account or reports on you.
