> I was never under the impression that gaps in conversations would increase costs

The UI could indicate this by showing a timer before context is dumped.

Yes!! A UI widget that shows how far along on the prompt cache eviction timelines we are would be great.

a countdown clock telling you that you should talk to the model again before your streak expires? that's the kind of UX i'd expect from an F2P mobile game or an abandoned shopping cart nag notification

I tried to hack the statusline to show this but when i tried, i don't think the api gave that info. I'd love if they let us have more variables to access in the statusline.