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cache-band
Shows how hot or cold the prompt cache is above the prompt, with a Compact button.
What it does
- Draws a band above the prompt, toasts
- Hooks session.compact, session.start, turn.complete, turn.start and 1 more
Good points
- No network calls
- Starts no processes
- Written in TypeScript
- Has a desktop-specific branch
Code to start from
A starter ModsCode writes from the drawing it read, and the mod's own lines that draw, where there are any.
Starter (register.tsx)
import type { Register } from 'claude-code'
// Drawn like cache-band by Mohab Yasser (band, toast), as ModsCode read it from the mod's code:
// https://modscode.com/claude-mods/mods/mohabyasser2-cache-band/
// Written by ModsCode from that reading, not copied from the mod: use it as you like.
// Each value below stands for one the mod works out at run time; put in your own.
export const register: Register = on => {
// the band above the prompt; what else goes there is drawn under it
on('ui.render', { component: 'AbovePrompt' }, async ($, e, next) => {
const { Box, Text, Svg, Button } = $.ui.resolve(e)
const filled = '…'
const empty = '…'
const word = '…'
const shownStatus = '…'
const line = '…'
const line2 = '…'
const line3 = '…'
const svg = '…'
const state = '…'
const line4 = '…'
const line5 = '…'
const line6 = '…'
const line7 = '…'
const line8 = '…'
const line9 = '…'
const compactSvg = '…'
const line10 = '…'
const line11 = '…'
const line12 = '…'
return (
<Box flexDirection="column">
<Box flexDirection="row" flexWrap="wrap" alignItems="center" justifyContent="space-between" width="100%" columnGap={2}>
<Box flexDirection="row" alignItems="center" columnGap={1} flexShrink={0}>
<Text dimColor wrap="truncate">
Cache
</Text>
<Box flexDirection="row" flexShrink={0}>
<Text>
{filled}
</Text>
<Text color="rate_limit_empty">
{empty}
</Text>
</Box>
<Text bold wrap="truncate">
{word}
</Text>
<Text dimColor wrap="truncate">
{"· "}
{shownStatus}
</Text>
<Box position="absolute" left={0} display="none" flexDirection="column" rowGap={1} borderStyle="round" borderColor="subtle" backgroundColor="background" paddingX={1}>
<Text>
{line}
</Text>
<Text>
{line2}
</Text>
<Text>
{line3}
</Text>
</Box>
</Box>
<Box flexDirection="row" flexWrap="wrap" alignItems="center" justifyContent="flex-end" columnGap={2}>
<Box flexDirection="row" alignItems="center" columnGap={1} flexShrink={0}>
<Box position="relative" flexDirection="row" alignItems="center" flexShrink={0}>
<Svg source={`${svg}`} alt={`${state}`} width={18} height={18} />
<Box position="absolute" top={0} left={0} right={0} height="100%" flexDirection="row" alignItems="center" justifyContent="center">
<Button label="⠀⠀" plain />
</Box>
<Box position="absolute" left={0} display="none" flexDirection="column" rowGap={1} borderStyle="round" borderColor="subtle" backgroundColor="background" paddingX={1}>
<Text>
{line4}
</Text>
<Text>
{line5}
</Text>
<Text>
{line6}
</Text>
</Box>
</Box>
<Button label="Auto cache" plain />
</Box>
<Box flexDirection="row" alignItems="center" columnGap={1} flexShrink={0}>
<Box position="relative" flexDirection="row" alignItems="center" flexShrink={0}>
<Svg source={`${svg}`} alt={`${state}`} width={18} height={18} />
<Box position="absolute" top={0} left={0} right={0} height="100%" flexDirection="row" alignItems="center" justifyContent="center">
<Button label="⠀⠀" plain />
</Box>
<Box position="absolute" left={0} display="none" flexDirection="column" rowGap={1} borderStyle="round" borderColor="subtle" backgroundColor="background" paddingX={1}>
<Text>
{line7}
</Text>
<Text>
{line8}
</Text>
<Text>
{line9}
</Text>
</Box>
</Box>
<Button label="Auto compact" plain />
</Box>
<Box position="relative" flexDirection="row" alignItems="center" flexShrink={0}>
<Svg source={`${compactSvg}`} alt="Compacting" width={14} height={14} />
<Box position="absolute" top={0} left={0} right={0} height="100%" flexDirection="row" alignItems="center" justifyContent="center">
<Button label="⠀⠀" plain />
</Box>
<Box position="absolute" left={0} display="none" flexDirection="column" rowGap={1} borderStyle="round" borderColor="subtle" backgroundColor="background" paddingX={1}>
<Text>
{line10}
</Text>
<Text>
{line11}
</Text>
<Text>
{line12}
</Text>
</Box>
</Box>
</Box>
</Box>
{await next(e)}
</Box>
)
})
on('session.start', async ($, e, next) => {
await $.ui.toast(`Auto cache paused: the cache had already gone cold. It starts again after your next message.`)
return next(e)
})
}
The mod's own code
Shown under the mod's licence (MIT); its text is below. Keep the notice if you copy these lines.
cache-band/hooks/register.tsx lines 483–642 · Band
on('ui.render', { component: 'AbovePrompt' }, async ($, e, next) => {
if (e.props.hasSurvey) return next(e)
const view = (await read($, viewAtom)) ?? EMPTY
// A new session, before its first reply: nothing is cached yet. The band
// shows from the start anyway, so the toggles can be set before then.
const isFresh = view.lastUsedAt === 0 || view.ctxTokens === 0
const [isCompacting, warmth] = await Promise.all([read($, compactingAtom), read($, warmthAtom)])
const below = await next(e)
const table = $.ui.resolve(e)
const { Box, Text, Button } = table
// The terminal has no Svg (its table hands one out that draws nothing), so
// it keeps the meter of block characters and words for the toggles.
const Svg = e.surface !== 'terminal' && 'Svg' in table ? table.Svg : undefined
const isWorking = e.props.isWorking
const t = temperatureOf(isWorking ? 0 : isFresh ? TTL_MS : Math.max(0, view.now - view.lastUsedAt))
const isEmpty = isFresh && !isWorking
const isCold = t.leftMs === 0
const { filled, empty } = meterOf(t.leftMs / TTL_MS)
const size = tokens(view.ctxTokens)
const untilAct = t.leftMs - LEAD_MS
const soon = untilAct < 60_000 ? '<1m' : span(untilAct)
const status = isWorking
? 'in use'
: isEmpty
? 'no cache yet'
: isCold
? `next message rewrites ${size}`
: warmth.isPinging
? 'pinging…'
: willPing(warmth)
? `ping in ${soon}`
: `cold in ${span(t.leftMs)}`
// The cells each layout takes in one row, with the longest status.
const columns = e.props.bodyColumns
const cacheCells =
(Svg ? pxCells(GAUGE_ICON + 105) : CELLS) + 1 + textCells('cooling') + 1 + textCells(`· next message rewrites ${size}`)
const named = (name: string) => (Svg ? ICON_BUTTON + 1 + textCells(name) : textCells(`☐ ${name}`)) + PAD
const togglesFull = named('Auto cache') + 2 + named('Auto compact')
const togglesShort = Svg ? ICON_BUTTON + 1 + ICON_BUTTON : togglesFull
const compactCells = textCells('Compact') + PAD
const fullCells = Math.ceil(textCells('Cache') + 1 + cacheCells + 3 + togglesFull + 2 + compactCells)
const mediumCells = Math.ceil(cacheCells + 3 + togglesShort + 2 + compactCells)
const layout = columns >= fullCells ? 'full' : columns >= mediumCells || !Svg ? 'medium' : 'icons'
const isFull = layout === 'full'
const isIcons = layout === 'icons'
const bar = isIcons && columns < TINY ? 64 : 105
// A terminal narrower still keeps the cold status short.
const shownStatus = !Svg && columns < mediumCells && isCold && !isEmpty ? 'full rewrite next' : status
// A card that opens while the pointer is over the keyed Box around it; the
// first of several lines is its heading.
const card = (...lines: string[]) => (
<Box
position="absolute"
top={-4}
left={0}
display="none"
hover={{ display: 'flex' }}
flexDirection="column"
rowGap={1}
borderStyle="round"
borderColor="subtle"
backgroundColor="background"
paddingX={1}
>
{lines.map((line, i) => (
<Text bold={isIcons && i === 0 && lines.length > 2}>{line}</Text>
))}
</Box>
)
// A picture a person presses: a blank button laid over it and centered on
// it takes the click, and its hover frames the picture.
const pressable = (key: string, picture: RenderElement, onPress: () => void, tip?: string) => (
<Box key={`${key}-box`} position="relative" flexDirection="row" alignItems="center" flexShrink={0}>
{picture}
<Box
position="absolute"
top={0}
left={0}
right={0}
height="100%"
flexDirection="row"
alignItems="center"
justifyContent="center"
>
<Button key={key} label={ICON_BLANK} plain onPress={onPress} />
</Box>
{tip !== undefined && card(tip)}
</Box>
)
// A toggle: its glowing icon, named beside it when the band has room and
// in a hover card when it hasn't. The terminal gets a box and its name.
const toggle = (key: string, name: string, isOn: boolean, svg: (isOn: boolean) => string, does: string, onPress: () => void) => {
if (!Svg) {
return <Button key={key} label={`${isOn ? '☑' : '☐'} ${name}`} plain dimColor={!isOn} onPress={onPress} />
}
const state = `${name} ${isOn ? 'on' : 'off'}`
const icon = pressable(
key,
<Svg source={svg(isOn)} alt={state} width={18} height={18} />,
onPress,
isFull ? undefined : `${state}: ${does}`,
)
if (!isFull) return icon
return (
<Box key={`${key}-named`} flexDirection="row" alignItems="center" columnGap={1} flexShrink={0}>
{icon}
<Button key={`${key}-name`} label={name} plain dimColor={!isOn} onPress={onPress} />
</Box>
)
}
// Each piece keeps its size; nothing wraps mid-phrase.
const gauge = Svg ? (
<Box flexShrink={0}>
<Svg
source={gaugeSvg(t.word, t.leftMs / TTL_MS, bar)}
alt={isEmpty ? 'No cache yet' : isCold ? 'Cache cold' : `Cache ${t.word}, ${span(t.leftMs)} left`}
width={GAUGE_ICON + bar}
height={16}
/>
</Box>
) : (
<Box flexDirection="row" flexShrink={0}>
<Text color={t.tone}>{filled}</Text>
<Text color="rate_limit_empty">{empty}</Text>
</Box>
)
const about = [
(isEmpty
? `Claude starts caching this conversation with your first message, and keeps it for an hour after ` +
`it last used it.`
: `Claude keeps this conversation cached for an hour after it last used it.`) +
` While it's warm, each message re-reads it from the cache, which costs far less. Once it's cold, ` +
`the next message writes it all into the cache again` +
(isEmpty ? '.' : ` (${size} tokens now).`) +
` Compact shrinks the conversation, so both cost less.`,
`Auto cache pings a background copy of the conversation 10 minutes before the cache would go cold, ` +
`which keeps it hot without adding anything to the chat. A ping costs about a twentieth of a ` +
`rewrite, so it stops after ${MAX_PINGS} in a row (about 16 hours away) and starts again when you ` +
`send a message.` +
(warmth.pings > 0 ? ` Pinged ${warmth.pings}× since your last message.` : ''),
`Auto compact compacts the conversation once it passes ${tokens(AUTO_COMPACT_AT)} tokens, right ` +
`after Claude's reply. Past that size every message costs more and Claude misses more of what's ` +
`in it; Claude Code's own auto-compact would wait until about 830k.`,
]
const word = t.word.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + t.word.slice(1)
const cache = (
<Box key="cache" flexDirection="row" alignItems="center" columnGap={1} flexShrink={0}>
{isFull && (
<Text dimColor wrap="truncate">
CacheLicence text (MIT)
MIT License Copyright (c) 2026 Mohab Yasser Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
How to build this: Band above the prompt, Toast
What its code calls
reads filesenv varsdrives Claudecalls tools
What its code shows
Read from the source at commit 6732b3bf4d59 on 2026-10-11. The first group decides whether a mod is listed; the rest is for you to weigh. A later commit is not read until the next crawl.
| Decides the listing: code you can check | |
|---|---|
| Entry read | Every module hooks/hooks.json names was read.cache-band/hooks/register.tsx |
| Parses | Every file parses as TypeScript or JavaScript.1 files parsed |
| All its code is in the mod | Every import is a file of the mod or the engine's own module; no packages, no require.all its code is in the mod |
| Readable | No minified lines, no eval or new Function, no import of a computed path, no encoded blobs.no minified code, no eval, no encoded blobs |
| Calls in the open | Network and programs are reached as $.http.fetch and $.process.run in place, never passed around.every call outside goes through $ in the open |
| For you to weigh before installing | |
| Where it draws | The terminal, the desktop app, both, or nothing (hooks only: a guard or a prompt rewriter), as its code says. Shown, never a reason to leave a mod out.draws in the terminal and the desktop app, the same in both |
| Install line | Whether its repository's own .claude-plugin/marketplace.json lists it, so it installs from that marketplace with the lines on its page.its repository's .claude-plugin/marketplace.json does not list it: no marketplace line to give; the page shows how to try the commit read |
| Programs on Windows | Whether every program it starts through $.process exists on Windows (tail, date, open, osascript, /usr/… do not).runs no program a Windows PC lacks |
| Network | Whether every fetch names its https host in the code.no network |
| Programs | Whether every program it starts is named in the code and is not a shell, an interpreter or a network tool.starts no programs |
| Reads and sends | Whether it both reads something of yours (files, environment variables, the transcript, settings) and reaches outside (the network, an MCP server, another session, telemetry).reads environment variables, files, the transcript, but reaches nothing outside |
| Keys in the source | Whether the source holds what looks like an API key or a private key.no keys in the source |
| Licence | An open licence (MIT, Apache-2.0, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, 0BSD, CC0) with its text lets ModsCode show its code; otherwise the code is linked.MIT |
| Settings hooks | Hooks declared in hooks/hooks.json or plugin.json beside the module: a command (a shell when it has no args), an HTTP request, an MCP tool or a model prompt at an event. They run outside $.no settings hooks: its function hooks alone |
| Servers it ships | MCP servers (a program, or a URL; a headersHelper is a shell command; a .mcpb bundle is unpacked at run time), LSP servers, monitors (a shell command for the whole session) and bin/ (on the PATH of the Bash tool).ships no MCP or LSP server, no monitor, no bin/ |
| Skills, commands, agents | What its Markdown declares beyond text: allowed-tools granted for the turn, hooks added when a skill is invoked, a command run before Claude reads the skill.no skills, commands, agents or workflows |
| Tools and MCP | Whether every tool it calls through $.tool.call and $.mcp.call is named in the code, and none is a shell (Bash through the tool runs a shell without $.process).command.run: /compact |
| Asks of the model | Completions it runs ($.model.complete, fork, classify), subagents it spawns, prompts it submits as you, and the tools, commands and agents it adds.model.fork (sends its own transcript) |
| Events it hooks | By what a hook there can do: gates (refuse a tool call, a prompt, a setting, another plugin), shapes (what the model reads: the system prompt, tool descriptions, each request), reads (your input, the events of the settings hooks, every event with *), and the rest.shapes: turn.step · also: session.start, turn.start, session.compact, turn.complete (+1) · timers: clock.every, clock.after |
| Reads, by name | The environment variables and files it names, and whether it reads the transcript, settings.json, the prompt box or the mouse selection.env: USERPROFILE, HOME; files: …/…/…, …/.claude/projects; the transcript |
| Writes, by name | The files and environment variables it names, and whether it changes settings, the prompt box, the clipboard, the conversation (a row the model reads) or another session.writes no files, environment variables, settings or conversation rows |
This is a reading of the code text, not a security review: it does not run the mod, and it cannot see what a program the mod starts does. The check before installing is yours. How mods are chosen
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No marketplace needed. In a terminal, clone the repository, check out the commit read, validate the mod, and load it for one session:
git clone https://github.com/MohabYasser2/claude-code-modsgit -C claude-code-mods checkout 6732b3bf4d59d3e010126c432704b06a51153c8fclaude plugin validate claude-code-mods/cache-bandclaude --plugin-dir claude-code-mods/cache-bandThe validate line lists the events the mod hooks and what it asks Claude Code to do, without running it. The last line loads the mod for this session only and writes nothing to your settings. If the author has rewritten history, the commit may no longer exist.
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