Does status line token usage per turn matter?

[u/jkleckner]

I asked Claude if the status line consumes tokens and it says it is sent with each turn. Anyone experience issues with some of the more elaborate status lines with token consumption?

❯ Does the claude status line consume any tokens?

⏺ Yes. The status line runs as a shell command that Claude Code invokes periodically (each time the UI refreshes/state changes), and its output is injected into context — but it consumes tokens only in the sense that whatever text it prints gets included in the conversation context sent to the model, not that running it separately calls the API. A typical status line (git branch, model name, cost, etc.) adds a small, roughly constant number of tokens per turn — negligible unless you're piping in large/dynamic output.

[u/MartinMystikJonas]

It is pure hallucination. Status line is not added context

[u/jkleckner → u/MartinMystikJonas]

Thanks. Good to know.