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Free tool

Build a status line for Claude Code without writing the script

Claude Code can show a line of live information at the bottom of the screen: which model you are on, the folder you are in, how full the context window is, what the session has cost. Setting that up means writing a little script. Tick what you want to see here and this writes the script for you.

The file it builds runs the same on Mac, Linux, and Windows. The bottom of the page shows the one line of settings that turns it on, and a way to do the whole thing with no typing.

What to show

Tick each piece you want on the line. Pick a few to start; you can always come back and add more. They appear left to right in the order listed here.

How to separate them

What sits between each piece on the line. A matter of taste.

Your status line script

This updates as you tick. Nothing here leaves your browser.


        

          
          
        

      

    


    

      
Where the file goes and how to turn it on

      
The easy way, with no typing: hit Copy, then paste the whole thing to Claude and say save this as my status line script and turn it on. It knows where the file goes and which setting to add.

      
By hand, it is two small steps. First, save the file as statusline.js in the .claude folder in your home folder. Then open the settings file next to it, settings.json, and add this so Claude knows to run it:

      
{
  "statusLine": {
    "type": "command",
    "command": "node ~/.claude/statusline.js"
  }
}

      
The line shows up the next time Claude answers you. It runs on your own machine and costs nothing, and it needs Node, which Claude Code already uses, so there is nothing else to install.

      
Want something that is not on this list? Claude Code has a built-in /statusline helper you can describe it to in your own words. This tool is the quick, no-typing path for the common ones.