Status Line Generator

Generate a custom Claude Code status line script with your choice of columns and a color theme. Installs directly to ~/.claude/settings.json.

How It Works

Claude Code supports custom status lines via a shell script configured in ~/.claude/settings.json. The script receives session JSON on stdin (model, context window, workspace, vim, worktree, etc.) and prints formatted text to stdout.

This skill generates a bash script tailored to your preferences and installs it automatically.

Script Directory

Important: All scripts are located in the scripts/ subdirectory of this skill.

Agent Execution Instructions:

1. Determine this SKILL.md file's directory path as SKILL_DIR
2. Script path = ${SKILL_DIR}/scripts/<script-name>.mjs
3. Replace all ${SKILL_DIR} in this document with the actual path

Script Reference:

Script	Purpose
scripts/generate.mjs	Generate and install status line script from chosen options

Prerequisites

• jq — required by the generated status line script to parse JSON input from Claude Code. On Windows, the script auto-detects jq installed via WinGet or scoop; if jq is still not found, add its directory to your PATH manually.
• Bun — required to run the generator. Use npx -y bun if not installed globally.

Usage

# Preview generated script
npx -y bun ${SKILL_DIR}/scripts/generate.mjs --elements model,context,effort,git,dir --theme gruvbox

# Generate and install
npx -y bun ${SKILL_DIR}/scripts/generate.mjs --elements model,context,effort,git,dir --theme dracula --install

Options

Flag	Default	Description
--elements <list>	model,context,cost,effort,style,git,dir	Comma-separated columns to display
--theme <name>	gruvbox	Color theme — see table below
--effort-icon <preset>	arrow (↯) for iconic themes, none otherwise	Override the effort prefix icon. Presets: arrow, bolt, flash, reason, dot, none. A raw character is also accepted.
--install	off	Write script to ~/.claude/scripts/statusline.sh and update settings.json

Columns

Column	Description	Data source
model	Active model name (e.g. "Opus 4.7")	model.display_name
context	Progress bar + percentage — color changes with remaining capacity	context_window.remaining_percentage
cost	Session API spend formatted as $X.XX in gold — hidden when rounds to $0.00	cost.total_cost_usd from input JSON
effort	Reasoning effort level — color changes with level	effortLevel in ~/.claude/settings.local.json → ~/.claude/settings.json
style	Output style name (e.g. Explanatory, Learning) — hidden when "default"	output_style.name from input JSON
git	Git branch name (yellow when dirty)	worktree.branch → git CLI
dir	Repo basename (original repo when in a worktree)	worktree.original_repo_dir → workspace.current_dir
worktree	Bold worktree:<id> label (hidden outside a worktree)	worktree.name → parent-dir basename via git CLI
vim	Vim mode indicator (hidden when inactive)	vim.mode

Color-changing elements

context — bar fill + percentage color scale with remaining capacity:

Remaining	Color	Meaning
> 50%	green	plenty of context
20–50%	yellow	watch out
< 20%	red	nearly full — compact soon

effort — value + optional prefix icon color by level:

Level	Color
max, xhigh, high	bold red
medium	yellow
low, xlow, minimal	green
other / unset	dim (or hidden when completely unset)

Themes

Theme	Vibe	Icons rendered in bar
gruvbox	Warm retro, muted	✦ model · ↯ effort · ❋ style · ⌂ dir · ⊕ worktree · ⎇ git · ⌨ vim
dracula	Modern dark, high saturation	◈ model · ↯ effort · ❋ style · ⌂ dir · ⊕ worktree · ⎇ git · ⌨ vim
robbyrussell	Classic oh-my-zsh	no prefix icons — colors + labels only
minimal	Default terminal colors	no prefix icons — plain text

The context column intentionally skips a prefix icon — the colored progress bar is already visually rich. The effort prefix (↯) is baked into iconic themes and can be overridden with --effort-icon.

Effort icons

Pass --effort-icon <preset> to swap the glyph in front of the effort value. Presets:

Preset	Glyph	Notes
arrow	↯	Electric arrow — default, narrow
bolt	ϟ	Greek koppa — narrow lightning
flash	⚡	Classic lightning — wide in emoji-presentation fonts
reason	∴	Therefore
dot	◉	Filled circle
none	(hidden)	Drop the icon entirely

You can also pass any raw character as --effort-icon <char>.

Worktree behavior: When inside a git worktree (detected via the input JSON's worktree.* fields or via git rev-parse --git-common-dir fallback), the worktree column shows a bold worktree:<id> label using the parent dir name (e.g. ~/.codex/worktrees/46a6/clawmaster → worktree:46a6). The git column prefers worktree.branch from the input JSON; the dir column prefers worktree.original_repo_dir so the repo identity stays stable across worktrees.

Invocation

This skill can be invoked with or without arguments:

• No args (/webup-statusline): Interactive prompt via AskUserQuestion to pick columns and theme.
• With args (/webup-statusline dracula): NLP parse for theme and column preferences.

Arg parsing (natural language)

The args string is free-form text. Use NLP to extract:

1. theme — match against: gruvbox, robbyrussell, minimal, dracula. Recognize aliases (暗黑=dracula, 极简=minimal, 复古=gruvbox, レトロ=gruvbox).
2. elements — look for mentions of: model, context/进度/コンテキスト, effort/推理强度/努力度, git/分支/ブランチ, dir/目录/ディレクトリ, worktree/工作树/ワークツリー, vim.

Unspecified fields use defaults: model,context,effort,git,dir columns, gruvbox theme.

Workflow

1. If no args provided: Use AskUserQuestion to ask 2 questions in a single prompt. AskUserQuestion caps each question at 4 options, so offer curated presets for columns rather than an exhaustive toggle list. If the user picks "Other", interpret their free text as a comma-separated column list (or a natural-language description that maps to one).

   Q1 — Column preset (single): Which columns to display? Offer these 3 curated presets — AskUserQuestion will auto-append an "Other" option that lets the user type a free-text column list or description.

   • "Everything (Recommended)" — model,context,cost,effort,style,git,dir,worktree (all columns that have a useful signal today; vim is excluded because most users don't use vim keybindings)
   • "Default" — model,context,effort,style,git,dir (balanced — drops cost and worktree; matches the skill's default flag value)
   • "Essentials" — model,context,git,dir (lean; no effort, no style, no cost)

   If the user picks the auto-added "Other", treat their free text as a comma-separated column list, or as a natural-language description to map to columns. Fall back to Default if parsing is ambiguous.

   Q2 — Theme (single): Color theme?

   • "Dracula" — modern dark, purple/pink/cyan (Recommended)
   • "Gruvbox Dark" — warm retro palette, 24-bit true color
   • "Robbyrussell" — classic oh-my-zsh style, no icons
   • "Minimal" — no decoration, dim separators only

   If args provided: Parse theme and columns from args. Skip the prompt.

2. Map user selections to script flags:

   • Column preset → expand to the preset's canonical --elements list:
     • Everything → model,context,cost,effort,style,git,dir,worktree
     • Default → model,context,effort,style,git,dir
     • Essentials → model,context,git,dir
     • Other (auto-added by AskUserQuestion) → parse the user's free text; keep only recognized column names (model,context,cost,effort,style,dir,worktree,git,vim). If parsing is ambiguous, fall back to Default.
   • Theme → --theme value (one of gruvbox, dracula, robbyrussell, minimal)

3. Run the generator with --install:

   npx -y bun ${SKILL_DIR}/scripts/generate.mjs --elements <list> --theme <theme> --install
   

4. Tell user to restart Claude Code to see the new status line.

Output Examples

Dracula (all columns), remaining=49%, cost=$0.42, effort=high, output style=Explanatory, inside a worktree:

◈ Opus 4.7 | [■■■■■■■■■■□□□□□□□□□□] 51% | $0.42 | ↯ high | ❋ Explanatory | ⌂ clawmaster | ⊕ worktree:46a6 | ⎇ feat/xyz

(bar yellow — 49% remaining; $0.42 gold session spend next to the bar; effort "high" bold red; purple ❋ Explanatory sits between effort and dir; context carries no prefix icon — the bar is already visual enough)

Gruvbox Dark (model + context + effort + dir + git), remaining=88%, effort=medium:

✦ Opus 4.7 | [■■□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□] 12% | ↯ medium | ⌂ skills-cc | ⎇ main

(bar green — 88% remaining; effort "medium" yellow)

Minimal (model + effort + dir + git), effort=low:

Claude Opus 4.7 · low · skills-cc · main

(no prefix icons in minimal; effort "low" green)

Notes

• Generated script is saved to ~/.claude/scripts/statusline.sh
• Running the skill again overwrites the existing script — just re-run to change theme or columns
• The script uses jq to parse JSON input — make sure it's installed. On Windows, the script auto-detects WinGet and scoop jq paths; if jq is still not found, add it to PATH manually.
• Git dirty detection uses --no-optional-locks to avoid interfering with other git operations