🐢 and 🐇 in My Claude Code Status Line: Now Watching the Week

I recently built a tortoise-and-hare status line for Claude Code that shows whether you're burning tokens faster than a steady pace. That post is here.

Then Anthropic raised the 5h limit but tightened the weekly cap. Suddenly the 7-day limit became the one that actually bites — with the relaxed 5h window, hitting 100% in five hours takes real effort. The weekly cap doesn't.

So I updated the script: 7d gets the full-width tortoise/hare bar, 5h keeps the same logic in a shorter bar on the right:

[Sonnet 4.6] ········🐢···········🐇 7d:105% ⚠️@5/14 | ··🐢··🐇··· 5h:70% ⚠️@18:00

(The 7d:105% is real — that's what I'm seeing right now. Going over 100% means you're into Claude Code's additional usage allowance beyond the base weekly limit. The 🐇 flies off the right edge of the bar when that happens.)

#!/bin/bash
input=$(cat)

MODEL=$(echo "$input" | jq -r '.model.display_name')
FIVE_H_PCT=$(echo "$input" | jq -r '(.rate_limits.five_hour.used_percentage // 0)')
SEVEN_D_PCT=$(echo "$input" | jq -r '(.rate_limits.seven_day.used_percentage // 0)')
FIVE_H_RESETS=$(echo "$input" | jq -r '.rate_limits.five_hour.resets_at // empty')
SEVEN_D_RESETS=$(echo "$input" | jq -r '.rate_limits.seven_day.resets_at // empty')

NOW=$(date +%s)
TZ=Asia/Tokyo  # change to your local timezone
W7=20; W5=10   # bar widths: 7d full, 5h half

make_bar() {
    local actual=$1 ideal=$2 width=$3 bar="" i
    for i in $(seq 0 $((width - 1))); do
        if [ "$i" -eq "$ideal" ] && [ "$i" -eq "$actual" ]; then bar="${bar}🐢🐇"
        elif [ "$i" -eq "$ideal" ]; then bar="${bar}🐢"
        elif [ "$i" -eq "$actual" ]; then bar="${bar}🐇"
        else bar="${bar}·"
        fi
    done
    [ "$actual" -ge "$width" ] && bar="${bar}🐇"
    echo "$bar"
}

# 7-day window (main bar, width=20)
if [ -n "$SEVEN_D_RESETS" ]; then
    REMAINING_7D=$((SEVEN_D_RESETS - NOW))
    RESET_7D_MD=$(date -r "$SEVEN_D_RESETS" "+%m/%d" | awk -F/ '{printf "%d/%d", $1, $2}')
    RESET_7D_TAG="@${RESET_7D_MD}"
    if [ "$REMAINING_7D" -gt 0 ] && [ "$REMAINING_7D" -lt 604800 ]; then
        IDEAL_7D=$(( (604800 - REMAINING_7D) * W7 / 604800 ))
    else
        IDEAL_7D=0
    fi
else
    IDEAL_7D=0; RESET_7D_TAG="@?"
fi
ACTUAL_7D=$(awk "BEGIN {print int($SEVEN_D_PCT * $W7 / 100)}")
BAR_7D=$(make_bar "$ACTUAL_7D" "$IDEAL_7D" "$W7")
[ "$ACTUAL_7D" -gt "$IDEAL_7D" ] && WARN_7D=" ⚠️" || WARN_7D=""
SEVEN_D_DISP=$(printf "%.0f" "$SEVEN_D_PCT")

# 5-hour window (half bar, width=10)
if [ -n "$FIVE_H_RESETS" ]; then
    REMAINING_5H=$((FIVE_H_RESETS - NOW))
    RESET_5H_JST=$(date -r "$FIVE_H_RESETS" "+%H:%M")
    RESET_5H_TAG="@${RESET_5H_JST}"
    if [ "$REMAINING_5H" -gt 0 ] && [ "$REMAINING_5H" -lt 18000 ]; then
        IDEAL_5H=$(( (18000 - REMAINING_5H) * W5 / 18000 ))
    else
        IDEAL_5H=0
    fi
else
    IDEAL_5H=0; RESET_5H_TAG="@?"
fi
ACTUAL_5H=$(awk "BEGIN {print int($FIVE_H_PCT * $W5 / 100)}")
BAR_5H=$(make_bar "$ACTUAL_5H" "$IDEAL_5H" "$W5")
[ "$ACTUAL_5H" -gt "$IDEAL_5H" ] && WARN_5H=" ⚠️" || WARN_5H=""
FIVE_H_DISP=$(printf "%.0f" "$FIVE_H_PCT")

echo "[${MODEL}] ${BAR_7D} 7d:${SEVEN_D_DISP}%${WARN_7D}${RESET_7D_TAG} | ${BAR_5H} 5h:${FIVE_H_DISP}%${WARN_5H}${RESET_5H_TAG}"

W7=20 and W5=10 control bar widths. 18000 = 5 hours in seconds, 604800 = 7 days. Change TZ=Asia/Tokyo at the top to your local timezone.

Comments

[John]

Nice update. Splitting the 7d and 5h views is the part that makes this actually useful, since those limits create totally different behavior. I’d probably also keep the reset date/time visible exactly like you did, because percent alone hides the urgency.

[yukihiro amadatsu]

Sorry for the late reply, I didn't notice your comment until now! And thank you for it.
I've been running this setup as-is for about three weeks now, and I've gotten much better at pacing myself, so I no longer hit the limit. So from my side too, I think it turned out to be a good update😀