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context-keeper
Live context-window panel: what fills it, checkpoints before you compact or clear, and nudges before you hit the wall.
What it does
- Draws a pane, the status line, toasts
- Adds /ctx, /checkpoint, /resume-checkpoint
- Hooks session.compact, session.start, turn.complete
- Keeps its own state between turns
Good points
- No network calls
- Starts no processes
- Small: 378 lines
- Written in TypeScript
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 context-keeper by Michael Goldenberg (pane, status, toast), as modscode read it from the mod's code:
// https://modscode.com/gallery/mishgoldenberg-context-keeper/
// 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 pane: open it with $.ui.open({ id: 'my-pane', title: "Context" })
on('ui.render', { component: 'Pane', requestId: 'my-pane' }, async ($, e) => {
const { Box, Text, Button, Input } = $.ui.resolve(e)
const glyph = '…'
const pct = '…'
const k = '…'
const k2 = '…'
const name = '…'
const k3 = '…'
const name2 = '…'
const k4 = '…'
const name3 = '…'
const k5 = '…'
const at = '…'
const t = '…'
const t2 = '…'
const t3 = '…'
const working = '…'
const toLocaleTimeString = '…'
const kind = '…'
const percent = '…'
const toLocaleTimeString2 = '…'
const kind2 = '…'
const percent2 = '…'
const toLocaleTimeString3 = '…'
const kind3 = '…'
const percent3 = '…'
return (
<Box flexDirection="column" gap={1}>
<Box flexDirection="column">
<Box gap={1}>
<Text>
{glyph}
</Text>
<Text bold>
context-keeper
</Text>
<Text dimColor wrap="truncate-end">
{`${pct}% full · ${k} left`}
</Text>
</Box>
<Text>
████████░░░░░░░░
</Text>
<Text dimColor wrap="truncate-end">
{k}
{" of "}
{k2}
{" tokens"}
</Text>
</Box>
<Box flexDirection="column">
<Box gap={1}>
<Text dimColor>
What fills it
</Text>
</Box>
<Box flexDirection="column">
<Text dimColor>
No breakdown yet. It fills in after the first turn.
</Text>
<Box gap={1}>
<Box flexGrow={1} flexShrink={1}>
<Text wrap="truncate-end">
{name}
</Text>
</Box>
<Box flexShrink={0} justifyContent="flex-end">
<Text>
{k3}
</Text>
</Box>
<Text dimColor>
████████░░░░░░░░
</Text>
</Box>
<Box gap={1}>
<Box flexGrow={1} flexShrink={1}>
<Text wrap="truncate-end">
{name2}
</Text>
</Box>
<Box flexShrink={0} justifyContent="flex-end">
<Text>
{k4}
</Text>
</Box>
<Text dimColor>
████████░░░░░░░░
</Text>
</Box>
<Box gap={1}>
<Box flexGrow={1} flexShrink={1}>
<Text wrap="truncate-end">
{name3}
</Text>
</Box>
<Box flexShrink={0} justifyContent="flex-end">
<Text>
{k5}
</Text>
</Box>
<Text dimColor>
████████░░░░░░░░
</Text>
</Box>
<Text dimColor wrap="truncate-end">
{"Largest memory file: "}
{at}
{" ("}
0
)
</Text>
</Box>
</Box>
<Box flexDirection="column">
<Box gap={1}>
<Text dimColor>
Tips
</Text>
</Box>
<Text dimColor>
{"• "}
{t}
</Text>
<Text dimColor>
{"• "}
{t2}
</Text>
<Text dimColor>
{"• "}
{t3}
</Text>
</Box>
<Box flexDirection="column">
<Box gap={1}>
<Text dimColor>
Actions
</Text>
</Box>
<Box flexDirection="column">
<Text color="claude">
●
{" "}
{working}
</Text>
<Box gap={1} flexWrap="wrap">
<Button hotkey="c" variant="primary" label="Checkpoint" />
<Button hotkey="k" label="Checkpoint + compact" />
<Button hotkey="r" label="Refresh" />
</Box>
<Input label="Compact, keeping:" placeholder="e.g. the auth refactor and failing tests" submitLabel="Compact" />
</Box>
</Box>
<Box flexDirection="column">
<Box gap={1}>
<Text dimColor>
Checkpoints
</Text>
</Box>
<Box flexDirection="column">
<Text dimColor>
None yet. A checkpoint is a handoff note (goal, decisions, files, TODOs) you can reload after /clear.
</Text>
<Box gap={1}>
<Text color="success">
✓
</Text>
<Text dimColor wrap="truncate-end">
{toLocaleTimeString}
{" "}
{kind}
{" at "}
{percent}
%
</Text>
<Button plain label="load" />
</Box>
<Box gap={1}>
<Text color="success">
✓
</Text>
<Text dimColor wrap="truncate-end">
{toLocaleTimeString2}
{" "}
{kind2}
{" at "}
{percent2}
%
</Text>
<Button plain label="load" />
</Box>
<Box gap={1}>
<Text color="success">
✓
</Text>
<Text dimColor wrap="truncate-end">
{toLocaleTimeString3}
{" "}
{kind3}
{" at "}
{percent3}
%
</Text>
<Button plain label="load" />
</Box>
</Box>
</Box>
</Box>
)
})
on('session.start', async ($, e, next) => {
const percent = '…'
await $.ui.status(`ctx ${percent}%`)
await $.ui.toast(`Already writing a checkpoint, one moment…`)
await $.ui.toast(`Nothing to checkpoint yet: a checkpoint summarizes the conversation, and this session has none. Chat first, then try ag…`)
return next(e)
})
}
The mod's own code
Shown under the mod's licence (MIT); its text is below. Keep the notice if you copy these lines.
plugins/context-keeper/hooks/register.tsx lines 244–356 · Pane
on('ui.render', { component: 'Pane', requestId: PANE }, async ($, e) => {
const els = $.ui.resolve(e)
const { Box, Text, Button } = els
const Input = 'Input' in els ? els.Input : undefined
const snap = await read($, snapshot)
const cps = await read($, checkpoints)
const working = await read($, busy)
const width = Math.max(10, Math.min(40, (e.props.bodyColumns ?? 40) - 12))
const kit = { Box, Text }
if (snap === null) {
return (
<Box flexDirection="column" gap={1}>
{header(kit, GLYPH.off, TONE.dim, 'context-keeper', 'no reading yet')}
{empty(kit, 'The context reading updates after every turn. Measure now to see what fills the window already.')}
<Box>
<Button key="refresh" hotkey="r" variant="primary" label="Measure now" onPress={() => void refresh($)} />
</Box>
</Box>
)
}
const pct = Math.round(snap.percent)
const tone = snap.percent >= checkpointAt ? TONE.bad : snap.percent >= warnAt ? TONE.warn : TONE.accent
const glyph = snap.percent >= warnAt ? GLYPH.warn : GLYPH.on
const tips = snap.categories.map(c => TIPS[c.name]).filter((t): t is string => t !== undefined).slice(0, 2)
return (
<Box flexDirection="column" gap={1}>
<Box flexDirection="column">
{header(kit, glyph, tone, 'context-keeper', `${pct}% full · ${k(Math.max(0, snap.window - snap.tokens))} left`)}
<Text color={tone}>{bar(snap.percent, width)}</Text>
<Text dimColor wrap="truncate-end">
{k(snap.tokens)} of {k(snap.window)} tokens
</Text>
</Box>
{section(
kit,
'What fills it',
<Box flexDirection="column">
{snap.categories.length === 0 && empty(kit, 'No breakdown yet. It fills in after the first turn.')}
{snap.categories.slice(0, 7).map(c => (
<Box gap={1}>
<Box flexGrow={1} flexShrink={1}>
<Text wrap="truncate-end">{c.name}</Text>
</Box>
{num(kit, k(c.tokens), 7)}
<Text dimColor>{bar((c.tokens / Math.max(1, snap.window)) * 100, 12)}</Text>
</Box>
))}
{snap.memoryFiles.length > 0 && (
<Text dimColor wrap="truncate-end">
Largest memory file: {snap.memoryFiles[0]?.path.split(/[\/]/).at(-1)} ({k(snap.memoryFiles[0]?.tokens ?? 0)})
</Text>
)}
</Box>,
)}
{tips.length > 0 &&
section(
kit,
'Tips',
tips.map(t => <Text dimColor>• {t}</Text>),
)}
{section(
kit,
'Actions',
<Box flexDirection="column">
{working !== null && <Text color={TONE.accent}>{GLYPH.on} {working}</Text>}
<Box gap={1} flexWrap="wrap">
<Button key="checkpoint" hotkey="c" variant="primary" label="Checkpoint" onPress={() => void writeHandoff($, 'manual')} />
<Button key="compact" hotkey="k" label="Checkpoint + compact" onPress={() => void writeHandoff($, 'before compact').then(() => $.command.run({ command: 'compact' }))} />
<Button key="refresh" hotkey="r" label="Refresh" onPress={() => void refresh($)} />
</Box>
{Input !== undefined && (
<Input
key="focus"
label="Compact, keeping:"
placeholder="e.g. the auth refactor and failing tests"
submitLabel="Compact"
onSubmit={(value: string) => void $.command.run({ command: 'compact', args: value })}
/>
)}
</Box>,
)}
{section(
kit,
'Checkpoints',
<Box flexDirection="column">
{cps.length === 0 && empty(kit, 'None yet. A checkpoint is a handoff note (goal, decisions, files, TODOs) you can reload after /clear.')}
{cps.slice(0, 4).map((cp, i) => (
<Box gap={1}>
<Text color={TONE.ok}>{GLYPH.ok}</Text>
<Text dimColor wrap="truncate-end">
{new Date(cp.at).toLocaleTimeString()} {cp.kind} at {Math.round(cp.percent)}%
</Text>
<Button
key={`load-${i}`}
plain
label="load"
onPress={() => void $.prompt.fill({ text: `Read ${cp.path} and continue the work from where it left off. Confirm the next step before acting.` })}
/>
</Box>
))}
</Box>,
)}
</Box>
)
})plugins/context-keeper/hooks/register.tsx lines 12–20 · Pane
function header({ Box, Text }: Kit, glyph: string, tone: string, name: string, status: string) {
return (
<Box gap={1}>
<Text color={tone}>{glyph}</Text>
<Text bold>{name}</Text>
<Text dimColor wrap="truncate-end">{status}</Text>
</Box>
)
}plugins/context-keeper/hooks/register.tsx lines 45–47 · Pane
function empty({ Text }: Kit, text: string) {
return <Text dimColor>{text}</Text>
}plugins/context-keeper/hooks/register.tsx lines 23–33 · Pane
function section({ Box, Text }: Kit, label: string, rows: RenderChildren, aside?: RenderChildren) {
return (
<Box flexDirection="column">
<Box gap={1}>
<Text dimColor>{label}</Text>
{aside}
</Box>
{rows}
</Box>
)
}plugins/context-keeper/hooks/register.tsx lines 36–42 · Pane
function num({ Box, Text }: Kit, value: string, width: number, color?: string) {
return (
<Box width={width} flexShrink={0} justifyContent="flex-end">
<Text color={color}>{value}</Text>
</Box>
)
}Licence text (MIT)
MIT License Copyright (c) 2026 Michael Goldenberg 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
writes filesdrives Clauderemembers
The design, read from code
Drawn from the mod's source at the commit read, not from a run: a list is drawn three times, a condition takes its first branch that draws in the desktop app, and a value only the run time knows is shown as a made-up sample (dotted underline) or left out. Colours and type are this site's.
What its code shows
Read from the source at commit 6949e8dde6af 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.plugins/context-keeper/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.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).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 files or environment variables and reaches the network.reaches no 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 mishgoldenberg/claude-mods/plugin install context-keeper@claude-modsThis installs the marketplace's latest commit, which may not be the one read here (6949e8dde6af). Compare them before you install.
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