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### Read the token count beside the spinner
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7575When the request for your plan limits fails, most often because the usage endpoint is rate limited, `/usage` shows the last usage bars it loaded on this machine within the past 60 minutes, along with a `Showing last-known usage` note stating how long ago that data was fetched. Press `r` to retry; a successful retry replaces the last-known bars with fresh data. Without a snapshot from the past 60 minutes, `/usage` reports that the usage endpoint is rate limited and offers the same retry shortcut. Before v2.1.208, a rate-limited request in a session that hadn't loaded usage yet always showed the error with no bars.
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77### Read the token count beside the spinner
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79While Claude works in the main conversation, the line beside the spinner can end with an elapsed time and a token count, as in `Deciphering… (10m 27s · ↓ 5.5k tokens)`. It is a live, approximate count of the output the current turn has produced so far. The arrow beside the count points down while output arrives or tools run.
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81* **What it covers**: output the turn generates, such as the text and tool calls Claude streams back, its thinking, and the output of subagents that run in the [foreground](/docs/en/sub-agents#run-subagents-in-foreground-or-background)
82* **What it leaves out**: what Claude Code sends to the model, so your prompt, the conversation history, and the rest of your context don't move it
83* **When it resets**: at the start of each turn, and when Claude Code [compacts the conversation](/docs/en/prompt-caching#compacting-the-conversation)
84* **When it stays hidden**: until output starts arriving, when the row is too narrow to fit it, and in [screen reader mode](/docs/en/accessibility)
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86It won't match the `Usage by model` output figures in the `/usage` Session block, which add up the whole session rather than one turn. It also differs from the token count [verbose mode adds](/docs/en/statusline#notifications-share-the-status-line-row), because that count measures the size of your context rather than one turn's output.
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7788### Analyze your usage patterns
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7990Run [`/insights`](/docs/en/commands#all-commands) for a report on how you work rather than how many tokens you've used. It analyzes your recent sessions on this machine and writes an HTML report covering what you work on, friction points such as misunderstood requests or buggy code, and suggestions for using Claude Code more effectively. A single run analyzes up to 200 sessions it hasn't seen before and skips very short ones. When sessions are left out, the report header shows the analyzed count with the total in parentheses, for example `200 sessions (412 total)`.
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