modscode / Gallery / neonmeter
neonmeter
Neon rate-limit and context meter for Claude Code, drawn above the prompt
What it does
- Draws a band above the prompt in the desktop app
- Hooks config.set, session.measure, session.start
- Keeps its own state between turns
- Calls the network
- Starts processes
Good points
- Written in TypeScript
- Has a desktop-specific branch
- Handles errors
- Writes no files
Code to start from
Two kinds: a starter modscode writes from the design above, and the lines of the mod's own code that draw it.
Starter (register.tsx)
import type { Register } from 'claude-code'
// Drawn like neonmeter by Ivan Pavlak (band), as modscode read it from the mod's code:
// https://modscode.com/gallery/ivanpavlak-neonmeter/
// 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 } = $.ui.resolve(e)
return (
<Box flexDirection="column">
<Box width="100%">
<Box flexDirection="row" width="100%" alignItems="center" />
</Box>
{await next(e)}
</Box>
)
})
}
The mod's own code
Shown under the mod's licence (MIT); its text is below. Keep the notice if you copy these lines.
hooks/register.tsx lines 876–958 · Band
on('ui.render', { component: 'AbovePrompt' }, async ($, e, next) => {
if (e.props.hasSurvey) return next(e)
const bandKey = await resolveBandKey($)
try {
ensurePolling($)
} catch {
// A timer refused from a render dispatch is re-armed at the next session event.
}
// `h` is the JSX factory in this environment, so the health value is not named that here.
const [r, c, hv, t, now] = await Promise.all([read($, reading), read($, context), read($, health), read($, theme), $.clock.now()])
await read($, tick)
const palette = THEMES[t ?? 'dark']
const input = inputOf(r, c, hv ?? DEFAULT_HEALTH, now, env.options)
const burst = burstOf(env.bursts, bandKey, changeKey(input), now, env.options.pulseMs, env.options.pulseCount)
const base = { pulse: env.options.pulse, pulseMs: env.options.pulseMs, pulseMode: env.options.pulseMode, burst, ground: palette.bg }
const single = env.options.layout === 'single'
const variants = single ? singleVariants(input) : weeklyVariants(input)
const { Box } = $.ui.resolve(e)
if (e.surface === 'desktop') {
// The desktop band is drawn in a proportional font: cells are nominal
// there, so the row is text pieces plus bars that stretch to fill the
// band, drawn as dots spread across the bar or as smooth slices. Its
// neutral colors are theme keys the app paints for its own appearance;
// the neon palette follows the app's detected appearance under `auto`
// (else the terminal theme), or the `desktopTheme` option when set.
// The desktop app starts sessions as an SDK host, whose session start names no
// surface: the first desktop draw schedules the lookup (a render may not write
// state, a timer may), instead of leaving it to the minute tick.
if (!env.onDesktop) {
env.onDesktop = true
try {
$.clock.after(0, () => {
void refreshAppearance($).catch(() => undefined)
})
} catch {
// The minute tick looks it up instead.
}
}
const seen = await read($, appearance)
const dt: NeonMeterTheme = env.options.desktopTheme === 'auto' ? (seen ?? t ?? 'dark') : env.options.desktopTheme
const plain = flexRow(input, dt, env.options.barColoring)
if (!plain) return next(e)
const dots = env.options.desktopBars === 'dots'
// In the single layout each turn's text differs, so each row gets the dots its own text leaves room for.
const turns = variants
.map(v => {
const count = single ? desktopDotCount(flexRow(v, dt, env.options.barColoring) ?? plain, e.props.bodyColumns) : desktopDotCount(plain, e.props.bodyColumns)
const r = flexRow(v, dt, env.options.barColoring, dots ? count : undefined)
return r ? { row: r, dotCount: count } : null
})
.filter((t): t is { row: FlexRow; dotCount: number } => t !== null)
ensureRotation($, turns.length)
const turn = turns[env.turn % Math.max(1, turns.length)]
const row = turn?.row ?? plain
const dotCount = turn?.dotCount ?? desktopDotCount(plain, e.props.bodyColumns)
const { Text, Svg } = $.ui.resolve(e)
return (
<Box width="100%">
{desktopBand(row, { Box, Text, Svg }, { pulse: env.options.pulse, pulseMs: env.options.pulseMs, pulseMode: env.options.pulseMode, burst, glow: env.options.glow, palette: THEMES[dt], dotCount })}
</Box>
)
}
const cols = Math.max(1, e.props.bodyColumns)
const rows = variants.map(v => band(v, cols, t ?? 'dark', env.options.barColoring)).filter(r => r !== null)
const row = rows[0]
if (!row) return next(e)
const props: BandProps = { ...base, layout: 'cells', spans: row.spans }
if (rows.length > 1) Object.assign(props, { alternates: rows.slice(1).map(r => r!.spans), rotateMs: env.options.rotateSeconds * 1000 })
// Every surface with a `Client` draws the band this way; the desktop returned above.
const { Text, Client } = $.ui.resolve(e) as ElementTable<'terminal'>
return (
<Box flexDirection="column" width={cols}>
<Text color={RULE_COLOR} wrap="truncate">
{RULE.repeat(cols)}
</Text>
<Client key={bandKey} module="./band.tsx" width="100%" props={props} />
</Box>
)
})hooks/desktop.tsx lines 214–274 · Band
export function desktopBand(row: FlexRow, els: DesktopElements, o: DesktopOptions): RenderElement {
const { Box, Text, Svg } = els
const children: RenderElement[] = []
let lastWin = -1
row.segments.forEach((seg, n) => {
if (seg.kind !== 'ctx') lastWin = n
})
const fixed = (key: string, el: RenderElement) => (
<Box key={key} flexShrink={0}>
{el}
</Box>
)
row.segments.forEach((seg: FlexSegment, n) => {
if (n > 0) children.push(fixed(`sep-${seg.kind}`, <Text color={THEME_KEYS.dim}> │ </Text>))
children.push(fixed(`label-${seg.kind}`, <Text color={THEME_KEYS.text}>{seg.label} </Text>))
if (seg.dots) {
const filled = seg.dots.filter(d => HEX.test(d.color) && d.color.toUpperCase() !== o.palette.track.toUpperCase()).length
children.push(
<Box key={`dots-${seg.kind}`} flexDirection="row" flexGrow={1} flexShrink={1} minWidth={0} overflow="hidden">
<Svg source={dotBarSvg(seg.dots, o)} alt={`${filled} of ${seg.dots.length} dots`} height={DISPLAY_HEIGHT} />
</Box>,
)
children.push(fixed(`gap-${seg.kind}`, <Text color={THEME_KEYS.text}> </Text>))
} else if (seg.bar) {
children.push(
<Box key={`bar-${seg.kind}`} flexDirection="row" flexGrow={1} flexShrink={1} minWidth={0} overflow="hidden">
<Svg source={smoothBarSvg(seg.bar, o)} alt={`${seg.kind} bar`} height={DISPLAY_HEIGHT} />
</Box>,
)
children.push(fixed(`gap-${seg.kind}`, <Text color={THEME_KEYS.text}> </Text>))
}
if (!seg.pct.live && seg.pct.color.toUpperCase() === o.palette.text.toUpperCase()) {
children.push(
fixed(
`pct-${seg.kind}`,
<Text color={THEME_KEYS.text} bold>
{seg.pct.text}
</Text>,
),
)
} else {
children.push(fixed(`pct-${seg.kind}`, <Svg source={pctSvg(seg.pct, o)} alt={seg.pct.text} height={DISPLAY_HEIGHT} />))
}
if (seg.extra) children.push(fixed(`extra-${seg.kind}`, <Text color={THEME_KEYS.text}> {seg.extra}</Text>))
if (n === lastWin && row.stale) {
children.push(
fixed(
`stale-${seg.kind}`,
<Text color={THEME_KEYS.dim} italic>
{' ' + row.stale.text}
</Text>,
),
)
}
})
return (
<Box key="band" flexDirection="row" width="100%" alignItems="center">
{children}
</Box>
)
}Licence text (MIT)
MIT License Copyright (c) 2026 Ivan Pavlak 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.
What its code calls
networkruns programsreads filesenv varsremembers
What its code shows
Read from the source at commit 2e53ecfefe88 on 2026-10-06. 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.hooks/register.tsx |
| Parses | Every file parses as TypeScript or JavaScript.5 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, with its own branch for the desktop |
| 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.listed in its repository's .claude-plugin/marketplace.json: installs from there |
| Programs on Windows | Whether every program it starts through $.process exists on Windows (tail, date, open, osascript, /usr/… do not).hooks/register.tsx:277 defaults (not on Windows) |
| Network | Whether every fetch names its https host in the code.https://api.anthropic.com |
| Programs | Whether every program it starts is named in the code and is not a shell, an interpreter or a network tool.reg, defaults, gsettings |
| Reads and sends | Whether it both reads files or environment variables and reaches the network.reads environment variables and files and reaches the network |
| 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 |
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
Install it
Check it yourself before you install it. Mods run unsandboxed, with your permissions, and modscode does not vouch for what this code does. Read the code below (or run claude plugin validate . in its folder), weigh what it reaches, and install the commit you read.
Its repository is its marketplace. Add that marketplace (in the terminal with these commands, or in the desktop app's plugin settings) and install the mod from it:
/plugin marketplace add IvanPavlak/NeonMeter/plugin install neonmeter@neonmeterThis installs the marketplace's latest commit, which may not be the one read here (2e53ecfefe88). Compare them before you install.
Ask Claude about it
With the modscode connector added, Claude can read this design, what its code reaches and its code, and build on them. Ask it like this:
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