[nipponese]

> kept the context above the ~60% remaining level where coding models perform at their absolute best

Maybe this is obvious to Claude users but how do you know your remaining context level? There is UI for this?

[adithyareddy]

You can also show context in the statusline within claude code: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/statusline#context-window-us...

[nipponese]

Follow up Q: what are you supposed to do when the context becomes too large? Start a new conversation/context window and let Claude start from scratch?

[d4rkp4ttern]

Yes you can literally just ask Claude Code to create a status line showing context usage. I had it make this colored progress bar of context usage, changing thru green, yellow, orange, red as context fills up. Instructions to install:

https://github.com/pchalasani/claude-code-tools?tab=readme-o...

[neilfrndes]

Claude code has a /context command.

[MattGaiser]

/context