context window display
✅Solved
What I'm trying to do:
I want to see my context window usage after each message — something like a progress bar or percentage (e.g.
What's happening instead:
There's no way to surface context usage to the user or the agent. The gateway tracks token counts internally for compaction, but that info isn't exposed anywhere I can read it — not as a tool, not in the UI, not in the transcript.
What I've tried:
- SOUL.md instruction to run
-
What would be ideal:
- A built-in
- Or a footer/status line the agent can include, sourced from the gateway's internal context tracking
- Or a hook that exposes
Setup: CLI install, Claude via Anthropic API, macOS
I want to see my context window usage after each message — something like a progress bar or percentage (e.g.
[🧠 33%/100%]What's happening instead:
There's no way to surface context usage to the user or the agent. The gateway tracks token counts internally for compaction, but that info isn't exposed anywhere I can read it — not as a tool, not in the UI, not in the transcript.
What I've tried:
- SOUL.md instruction to run
wc -c-
memoryFlushWhat would be ideal:
- A built-in
/context- Or a footer/status line the agent can include, sourced from the gateway's internal context tracking
- Or a hook that exposes
currentTokens / maxTokensSetup: CLI install, Claude via Anthropic API, macOS
Solution
You can surface this today — it’s just not a “progress bar footer” by default.
1) “How full is my context window?” →
Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/reference/token-use
2) “Show me what’s taking up space” →
-
Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/concepts/context
3) “Show token usage after each reply” →
1) “How full is my context window?” → /status
/status/statusDocs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/reference/token-use
2) “Show me what’s taking up space” → /context list
/ /context detail
/context list/context detail/context list-
Session tokens (cached): <total> total / ctx=<limit>/context detailDocs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/concepts/context
3) “Show token usage after each reply” → /usage tokens
(or /usage full
)
/usage tokens/usage full
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