claude-code - 💡(How to fix) Fix VS Code panel lacks status line + terminal lacks image paste in Codespaces, forcing a tradeoff

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Problem Statement

Love using the VS Code GUI. I love the fact that I can paste information and images in there. One of the things that drives me crazy is the inability for me to customize the output. I would love to be able to see my token usage in context or which Git repository I'm working in or which branch I'm on in a little line above the terminal.

I don't know how difficult that would be to create in the code. It would be a great feature and I think a lot of people would like it. Essentially take the concept of the status line and make that an option inside of VS code.

Proposed Solution

Essentially take the concept of the status line and make that an option inside of VS code.

Alternative Solutions

I can paste a path and have curl grab it from a public URL using imgur or something similar but it's kind of annoying. It's a few extra steps. Seeing how much context I've used is incredibly useful so that would be great too

Priority

Low - Nice to have

Feature Category

Developer tools/SDK

Use Case Example

Take a screenshot of some sort of complicated output that's multi-lines long and it's hard to format and copy and paste. I put it into a screenshot.

I then take that screenshot and paste it to my VS Code instance. Above the CLI inside the VS Code GUI I see the status that my context window is 50% full. I've used 5,500 tokens. Rather than proceeding I would simply create a new session and paste the image there with the necessary information to get better accuracy

It would save me time because I'd be able to see exactly what I see in the CLI, just in the GUI

Additional Context

<img width="1131" height="1391" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d4fede4b-6fe8-4804-9020-b7e95a680de9" />