Cooked
A pixel-art panel that watches your Claude Code context-window usage in real time — and a cast of medieval NPCs roasts you the whole way up.
The closer your context gets to full, the harder they heckle. Vibe coding at 12%? They notice. About to overflow at 99%? They've already written your eulogy.
What it does
- 📊 Reads your active Claude Code session and shows the % of context used (live, in the Explorer panel + status bar).
- 🎭 A random medieval commentator appears each beat and drops a roast line drawn from a pool of ~180 burns.
- 🔥 The burns escalate with usage — chill jabs early, full panic as you approach overflow.
- 🎲 Speaker, line, mood and backdrop are all randomized, so you rarely see the same thing twice.
- ⏱️ Lines stay on screen long enough to read — fast jumps in % won't flash by.
It's purely cosmetic ambiance for your editor. No data leaves your machine.
How it works
Cooked watches ~/.claude for your active session, binds to the one owned by your focused terminal, and reads the context-token total from the conversation log. It maps that to a percentage of the model's context window (200k by default) and drives the scene.
Settings
| Setting |
Default |
Description |
cooked.contextWindowMax |
200000 |
Max context window size in tokens. |
cooked.pollIntervalMs |
3000 |
How often to refresh the reading (ms). |
cooked.spicyMode |
false |
🌶️ Unlock a meaner, cruder pool of roast lines (mild profanity). |
Open it from the Explorer sidebar (the "Cooked" view), or run Cooked: Show Panel from the command palette.
Credits
Pixel art from free CraftPix.net packs (used under the CraftPix license):
- Medieval NPC Avatars Pixel Pack for Dialogue
- Free Nature Pixel Backgrounds for Games
- Forest and Trees Free Pixel Backgrounds
- Free Autumn Pixel Backgrounds for Game
- Free City Backgrounds Pixel Art
- 4 Free Seamless Nature Pixel Backgrounds
- Free 4 Nature Backgrounds for RPG Battle
Extension code is MIT licensed.
Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Anthropic. "Claude" and "Claude Code" are trademarks of Anthropic, referenced here only to describe compatibility.
