Bring back % for token use in statusline
Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Apr 15, 2026 by joshka Closed Apr 15, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor)
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What version of Codex CLI is running?
codex-cli 0.120.0
What subscription do you have?
Pro
Which model were you using?
_No response_
What platform is your computer?
macos
What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?
ghostty / vscode
What issue are you seeing?
Having the percentage in the status line is much more useful than a bar graph.
A percentage allows you to choose what sorts of messages you want to send based on the remaining usable context space before compaction kicks in. Removing this makes it more difficult to work around compaction effects.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
/statusline with context-usage set
What is the expected behavior?
show a percentage
Additional information
This was changed away from percentage recently (in the last couple of releases)
The rationale was that it was confusing.
Perhaps something like xx% ctx would be useful / less confusing.
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Already fixed on main.
Thanks :)