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cache-band

Shows how hot or cold the prompt cache is above the prompt, with a Compact button.

Code you can checkTerminal + desktopBandToastBoxButtonSvgText

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

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)

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/gallery/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">
            Cache
Licence 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.

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The design, read from code

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Entry readEvery module hooks/hooks.json names was read.cache-band/hooks/register.tsx
ParsesEvery file parses as TypeScript or JavaScript.1 files parsed
All its code is in the modEvery import is a file of the mod or the engine's own module; no packages, no require.all its code is in the mod
ReadableNo 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 openNetwork 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 drawsThe 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 lineWhether 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 install line to give
Programs on WindowsWhether every program it starts through $.process exists on Windows (tail, date, open, osascript, /usr/… do not).runs no program a Windows PC lacks
NetworkWhether every fetch names its https host in the code.no network
ProgramsWhether every program it starts is named in the code and is not a shell, an interpreter or a network tool.starts no programs
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LicenceAn 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

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