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A) Oh nice! that's cool

B) Warning everyone, it slowly eats tokens - If you're like me and on the pro plan, perhaps not a good idea to have its (albeit slow) drain on the tokens.

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I didn't think statusline ate tokens, is this true?

No, when you run it Claude just writes a bash script used to generate the status line. Not sure what they're talking about.

I set it up and saw the token notifier down the bottom slowly ticking up. I'll try again and report back, perhaps I misread something? I was surprised something like thst (which I assumed was an API call) was trickling token usage.

When was it ticking up? The status line only updates after each turn. If you submitted a turn, tokens were used. The status line itself is a bash script, you can go look at it.

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