gist.github.com/flamerix-ai/c3905705cc4205e5de3011fa2e74efce Claude Code burns ~15–20% of your tokens on a 3-word status line
Flamerix AI reports that Claude Code's default background-agent status-line summaries consume roughly 16-20% of spend and requests, with no official off switch. They publish a Bun preload that suppresses the summary timer, verified across several Linux versions up to 2.1.312.
