Powerbar

Persistent powerline-style status bar showing git branch, token counts, session cost, and context usage.

What it does

Pi-powerbar renders a persistent status line at the bottom of the Pi interface with left and right segments. Out of the box it shows your git branch, input and output token counts for the current turn, cumulative session cost, context window usage percentage, and the current provider and model name.

Other extensions can emit powerbar:update events to add their own segments — so as you install more packages, the powerbar can surface information from them too. Configuration is done via the pi-extension-settings companion package, which is a required dependency.

Why it's included

Token counts and cost are invisible by default, which makes it easy to accidentally run up expensive sessions or burn through your context window without noticing. Powerbar makes these numbers visible at all times — you always know where you stand.

Commands

Powerbar has no slash commands. It is configured via pi-extension-settings and renders automatically on session start.