My Claude Code status bar colors rate-limit bars by pace, not fill

Most Claude Code status bars render a flat string: model · tokens used . Mine renders two lines, and four things on those lines changed how I read them. This post walks through each mechanism with the exact bash, so you can port any of them into your own statusline.sh . 1. Pace, not fill, on rate-limit bars Look at the screenshot above. The seven-day bar is almost full. It's also green. A full bar is not the same as a bar that is going to overflow. The useful question isn't "how much have I used