[Feature Request] Add option to hide or consolidate context/token usage indicator in UI

Open 💬 0 comments Opened Jul 3, 2026 by zackgomez

Bug Description
▎ Why does the context/token indicator get its OWN entire row above the footer badges? It's wasting a full terminal line and honestly looks like garbage — especially when I've got a custom statusLine right there too. It's redundant and cluttered.

▎ Please just let me either:

▎ 1. Hide it — give me a hideContextUsage setting in settings.json. You already have hideVimModeIndicator, so clearly built-in badges CAN be suppressed. Let me kill this one and show token info in my own statusLine if I want it.
▎ 2. Or fold it into the footer badge row — put it inline across from the permission-mode indicator ("bypass permissions") instead of hogging a whole line.

▎ Either fix is fine. Right now there's zero way to move it OR hide it, and it's eating vertical space for no reason. The vim-mode toggle already proves you can do this — please give the token readout the same option.

Environment Info

  • Platform: linux
  • Terminal: alacritty
  • Version: 2.1.200
  • Feedback ID: 2327898f-c24d-4cab-a56b-106dca70763b

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