Token usage dissapared in @1.0.82

I loved the way I could see how many tokens it used when doing work. Why don't I see it anymore? Is there a way to bring it back?

And it used to look like this:

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instant downgrade.. not going to deal with this black box of no time elapsed and token display.

The 'remaining context' count has been broken for several versions too along with this. Downgraded back to 1.0.71.

Please, fix it and bring it back. Token counter now works only when Verbose Output is set to true.

I liked the token counter because it gave a sense of progress.

It's been boondoggling now for 30 seconds, how do I know if it's doing anything?

@raine

@raine in this particular example it's actually not meant to show you any progress /s

Boondoggling refers to doing work that appears to be useful or important but is actually wasteful, pointless, or serves little real purpose.

I liked the token counter because it gave a sense of progress.
It's been boondoggling now for 30 seconds, how do I know if it's doing anything?

Exactly! This is why I would like to have it back! I don't care too much about tokens, but rather about seeing the progress.

Huge UX downgrade. Instead of having confirmation that it's working on something, I'm just wondering if it's stuck under the hood. Because it could be Boondoggling at times while the produced tokens remain at 0.

Yeah this needs to be added back, we have no clue if Claude is stalled out or if it is working

I need to display the time and token.

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@levpopov given the enormous amount of settings and customization CC already offers, why not make this customizable? The token counter makes a huge difference, this thread and the number of votes is a testament to that. Verbose is too verbose. Why would anyone want to use that mode unless debugging hooks / MCP services / bored?

Agreed, --verbose is not a suitable solution, it is not a mode you would like to run day to day (too much noise), perhaps useful for debugging, etc.

On the other hand, token counter is immensely useful - especially when dealing with flaky proxies, providers, etc.
PLEASE add option to bring it back, perhaps via statusline parameter or something like that.

I agree that verbose mode is not a viable option, so I would not consider this issue resolved

Even if not bringing back the counter, you could explore alternatives which achieve a similar purpose. It seems most people on this thread weren't using this for actual token usage awareness. Some kind of loading indicator which animates only when tokens are being used would be a viable alternative for me and very welcome over what we have currently.

Verbose is way too .. well verbose. Just let us add the counter back!

Thank you for the reports! The new UI is intentionally condensed, but you can still access the old behavior in verbose mode by running $ claude --verbose

I just want to see the token usage, not everything in verbose! Please let us configure it.

Why is this issue closed? The problem has not been solved. --verbose is not the same as it was before. Please give us a possibility to configure this.

Agreed should be re-opened

Bring back the token counter and elapsed time metric

Bring back the token counter and elapsed time metric (#37)

Hi everyone! We just added a feature to tweakcc to re-enable the token counter and the elapsed time automatically without having to run Claude Code with --verbose option. To try it out, just run npx tweakcc and select the top option, *Apply customizations to cli.js and then run claude. Enjoy!

Claude code now faces intense competition from OpenAI codex. I have heard a lot of similar experiences from people who use both codex and claude code, that codex with gpt-5 high reasoning is better at handling problems than opus 4, while claude code has better UX. This UX request has a high number of upvotes (currently sits at 47), which if ignored will reduce the appeal of claude code's UX (maybe not significantly, but noticeably). People will jump ship if the UX of claude code is on par with codex.

This issue should not have been closed. The only reason you would recommend the verbose option as an alternative is if you intentionally do not want people to be able to best keep track of their tokens. I hope the intention is not to have billing rack up no matter what or limits to be exceeded quickly.

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