Claude Swap Status: Claude Code usage and account switching in your status bar

If you use more than one Claude account, it's easy to lose track of how much of each one's limits you've used. Claude Swap Status puts your Claude Code usage in the status bar of Antigravity or VS Code, and lets you switch accounts with one click.

It's a small visual add-on for claude-swap by realiti4, which does the real account and usage work, so it needs claude-swap installed. It's an unofficial add-on, not made by or affiliated with the author of claude-swap or with Anthropic.

What it shows#

👤 Claude 1: work | 5h: █░░░░ 25% R:3h12m | 7d: █░░░░ 16% R:1d4h

5h is your 5-hour usage limit, and 7d is your 7-day limit.
R: is how long until that limit resets, such as 45m, 3h12m or 1d4h.
Hover over it to see the account email, its status and the exact reset times.

The status bar turns yellow at 70% and red at 85%, so you notice before you run out.

Click it to see all your accounts with their usage, then pick one to switch to. Add New Account... at the bottom of the list opens a terminal that walks you through logging in.

Step 1: Install claude-swap first#

The extension does nothing on its own: it only shows what the cswap tool reports. Without it, the status bar shows Claude: cswap error.

Install the claude-swap command line tool:

uv tool install claude-swap
# or
pipx install claude-swap

Add at least one Claude account:
```
cswap add
```
Check that it works:
```
cswap list --json
```
You should see your accounts. If you get command not found, close and reopen your terminal, then try again.

Step 2: Install the extension#

Antigravity: Claude Swap Status on Open VSX, the extension store Antigravity uses
VS Code: Claude Swap Status on the Visual Studio Marketplace

Or open the Extensions panel in your editor, search for Claude Swap Status and click Install. Updates then install automatically.

To install from a file instead, download the latest .vsix from the Releases page, open the Extensions panel, choose Install from VSIX... from the ... menu, and pick the file.

The status bar item appears once the editor finishes starting up.

Commands#

Open the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P, or Cmd+Shift+P on a Mac) and type Claude Swap:

Claude Swap: Switch Account shows all your accounts and switches the active one.
Claude Swap: Add Account opens a terminal to log in to a new account.
Claude Swap: Refresh Usage updates the numbers right away.

Settings#

claudeSwap.pollIntervalMinutes sets how often to check usage, in minutes. The default is 1 and the minimum is 0.5.
claudeSwap.cswapExecutablePath is the full path to cswap, if it isn't on your system's PATH. The default is cswap.

If something goes wrong#

Claude: cswap error: the extension couldn't run cswap. Run cswap list --json in a terminal. If the command isn't found, install claude-swap (Step 1). If it works in the terminal but not in the editor, set claudeSwap.cswapExecutablePath to its full path, which you can find with where cswap on Windows or which cswap on macOS and Linux, then restart the editor.
Claude: No Active Account: click it and choose an account, or add one with Add New Account....
The usage isn't a percentage: claude-swap couldn't read usage for that account right now. Run Claude Swap: Refresh Usage, or run cswap list in a terminal for more detail.

Get it#

Claude Swap Status is free and MIT-licensed. Install it from Open VSX for Antigravity or from the VS Code Marketplace, and find the code on GitHub. Thanks to realiti4 for claude-swap, which does all the real work.