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ccstatusline

🎨 A highly customizable status line formatter for Claude Code CLI Display model info, git branch, token usage, and other metrics in your terminal

📚 Table of Contents

• Recent Updates
• Features
• Quick Start
• Usage
• Development
• Contributing
• License
• Related Projects

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🆕 Recent Updates

v2.0.8 - Powerline Auto-Alignment

• 🎯 Widget Alignment - Auto-align widgets across multiple status lines in Powerline mode for a clean, columnar layout (toggle with 'a' in Powerline Setup)

v2.0.7 - Current Working Directory & Session Cost

• 📁 Current Working Directory - Display the current working directory with configurable segment display
  • Set the number of path segments to show (e.g., show only last 2 segments: .../Personal/ccstatusline)
  • Supports raw value mode for compact display
  • Automatically truncates long paths with ellipsis
• 💰 Session Cost Widget - Track your Claude Code session costs (requires Claude Code 1.0.85+)
  • Displays total session cost in USD
  • Supports raw value mode (shows just $X.YZ vs Cost: $X.YZ)
  • Real-time cost tracking from Claude Code session data
  • Note: Cost may not update properly when using /resume (Claude Code limitation)
• 🐛 Bug Fixes
  • Fixed Block Timer calculations for accurate time tracking across block boundaries
  • Improved widget editor stability with proper Ctrl+S handling
  • Enhanced cursor display in numeric input fields

v2.0.2 - Block Timer Widget

• ⏱️ Block Timer - Track your progress through 5-hour Claude Code blocks
  • Displays time elapsed in current block as hours/minutes (e.g., "3hr 45m")
  • Progress bar mode shows visual completion percentage
  • Two progress bar styles: full width (32 chars) or compact (16 chars)
  • Automatically detects block boundaries from transcript timestamps

v2.0.0 - Powerline Support & Enhanced Themes

• ⚡ Powerline Mode - Beautiful Powerline-style status lines with arrow separators and customizable caps
• 🎨 Built-in Themes - Multiple pre-configured themes that you can copy and customize
• 🌈 Advanced Color Support - Basic (16), 256-color (with custom ANSI codes), and truecolor (with hex codes) modes
• 🔗 Widget Merging - Merge multiple widgets together with or without padding for seamless designs
• 📦 Easy Installation - Install directly with npx or bunx - no global package needed
• 🔤 Custom Separators - Add multiple Powerline separators with custom hex codes for font support
• 🚀 Auto Font Install - Automatic Powerline font installation with user consent

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✨ Features

• 📊 Real-time Metrics - Display model name, git branch, token usage, session duration, block timer, and more
• 🎨 Fully Customizable - Choose what to display and customize colors for each element
• ⚡ Powerline Support - Beautiful Powerline-style rendering with arrow separators, caps, and custom fonts
• 📐 Multi-line Support - Configure up to 3 independent status lines
• 🖥️ Interactive TUI - Built-in configuration interface using React/Ink
• ⚙️ Global Options - Apply consistent formatting across all widgets (padding, separators, bold, background)
• 🚀 Cross-platform - Works seamlessly with both Bun and Node.js
• 📏 Smart Width Detection - Automatically adapts to terminal width with flex separators
• ⚡ Zero Config - Sensible defaults that work out of the box

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🚀 Quick Start

No installation needed! Use directly with npx or bunx:

# Run the configuration TUI with npm
npx ccstatusline@latest

# Or with Bun (faster)
bunx ccstatusline@latest

Configure ccstatusline

The interactive configuration tool provides a terminal UI where you can:

• Configure up to 3 separate status lines
• Add/remove/reorder status line widgets
• Customize colors for each widget
• Configure flex separator behavior
• Edit custom text widgets
• Install/uninstall to Claude Code settings
• Preview your status line in real-time

💡 Tip: Your settings are automatically saved to ~/.config/ccstatusline/settings.json

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📖 Usage

Once configured, ccstatusline automatically formats your Claude Code status line. The status line appears at the bottom of your terminal during Claude Code sessions.

📊 Available Widgets

• Model Name - Shows the current Claude model (e.g., "Claude 3.5 Sonnet")
• Git Branch - Displays current git branch name
• Git Changes - Shows uncommitted insertions/deletions (e.g., "+42,-10")
• Session Clock - Shows elapsed time since session start (e.g., "2hr 15m")
• Session Cost - Shows total session cost in USD (e.g., "$1.23")
• Block Timer - Shows time elapsed in current 5-hour block or progress bar
• Current Working Directory - Shows current working directory with configurable path segments
• Version - Shows Claude Code version
• Output Style - Shows the currently set output style in Claude Code
• Tokens Input - Shows input tokens used
• Tokens Output - Shows output tokens used
• Tokens Cached - Shows cached tokens used
• Tokens Total - Shows total tokens used
• Context Length - Shows current context length in tokens
• Context Percentage - Shows percentage of context limit used (out of 200k)
• Context Percentage (usable) - Shows percentage of usable context (out of 160k, accounting for auto-compact at 80%)
• Terminal Width - Shows detected terminal width (for debugging)
• Custom Text - Add your own custom text to the status line
• Custom Command - Execute shell commands and display their output (refreshes whenever the statusline is updated by Claude Code)
• Separator - Visual divider between widgets (customizable: |, -, comma, space)
• Flex Separator - Expands to fill available space

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Terminal Width Options

These settings affect where long lines are truncated, and where right-alignment occurs when using flex separators:

• Full width always - Uses full terminal width (may wrap if auto-compact message appears or IDE integration adds text)
• Full width minus 40 - Reserves 40 characters for auto-compact message to prevent wrapping (default)
• Full width until compact - Dynamically switches between full width and minus 40 based on context percentage threshold (configurable, default 60%)

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⚙️ Global Options

Configure global formatting preferences that apply to all widgets:

Default Padding & Separators

• Default Padding - Add consistent padding to the left and right of each widget
• Default Separator - Automatically insert a separator between all widgets
  • Press (p) to edit padding
  • Press (s) to edit separator

Global Formatting Options

• Inherit Colors - Default separators inherit foreground and background colors from the preceding widget
  • Press (i) to toggle
• Global Bold - Apply bold formatting to all text regardless of individual widget settings
  • Press (o) to toggle
• Override Foreground Color - Force all widgets to use the same text color
  • Press (f) to cycle through colors
  • Press (g) to clear override
• Override Background Color - Force all widgets to use the same background color
  • Press (b) to cycle through colors
  • Press (c) to clear override

💡 Note: These settings are applied during rendering and don't add widgets to your widget list. They provide a consistent look across your entire status line without modifying individual widget configurations.

⚠️ VSCode Users: If colors appear incorrect in the VSCode integrated terminal, the "Terminal › Integrated: Minimum Contrast Ratio" (terminal.integrated.minimumContrastRatio) setting is forcing a minimum contrast between foreground and background colors. You can adjust this setting to 1 to disable the contrast enforcement, or use a standalone terminal for accurate colors.

⏱️ Block Timer Widget

The Block Timer widget helps you track your progress through Claude Code's 5-hour conversation blocks:

Display Modes:

• Time Display - Shows elapsed time as "3hr 45m" (default)
• Progress Bar - Full width 32-character progress bar with percentage
• Progress Bar (Short) - Compact 16-character progress bar with percentage

Features:

• Automatically detects block boundaries from transcript timestamps
• Floors block start time to the hour for consistent tracking
• Shows "Block: 3hr 45m" in normal mode or just "3hr 45m" in raw value mode
• Progress bars show completion percentage (e.g., "[████████████████████████░░░░░░░░] 73.9%")
• Toggle between modes with the (p) key in the widgets editor

🔤 Raw Value Mode

Some widgets support "raw value" mode which displays just the value without a label:

• Normal: Model: Claude 3.5 Sonnet → Raw: Claude 3.5 Sonnet
• Normal: Session: 2hr 15m → Raw: 2hr 15m
• Normal: Block: 3hr 45m → Raw: 3hr 45m
• Normal: Ctx: 18.6k → Raw: 18.6k

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🔧 Custom Widgets

Custom Text Widget

Add static text to your status line. Perfect for:

• Project identifiers
• Environment indicators (dev/prod)
• Personal labels or reminders

Custom Command Widget

Execute shell commands and display their output dynamically:

• Refreshes whenever the statusline is updated by Claude Code
• Receives the full Claude Code JSON data via stdin (model info, session ID, transcript path, etc.)
• Displays command output inline in your status line
• Configurable timeout (default: 1000ms)
• Examples:
  • pwd | xargs basename - Show current directory name
  • node -v - Display Node.js version
  • git rev-parse --short HEAD - Show current commit hash
  • date +%H:%M - Display current time
  • curl -s wttr.in?format="%t" - Show current temperature
  • npx -y ccusage@latest statusline - Display Claude usage metrics (set timeout: 5000ms)

⚠️ Important: Commands should complete quickly to avoid delays. Long-running commands will be killed after the configured timeout. If you're not seeing output from your custom command, try increasing the timeout value (press 't' in the editor).

💡 Tip: Custom commands can be other Claude Code compatible status line formatters! They receive the same JSON via stdin that ccstatusline receives from Claude Code, allowing you to chain or combine multiple status line tools.

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🔗 Integration Example: ccusage

ccusage is a tool that tracks and displays Claude Code usage metrics. You can integrate it directly into your status line:

1. Add a Custom Command widget
2. Set command: npx -y ccusage@latest statusline
3. Set timeout: 5000 (5 seconds for initial download)
4. Enable "preserve colors" to keep ccusage's color formatting

📄 How it works: The command receives Claude Code's JSON data via stdin, allowing ccusage to access session information, model details, and transcript data for accurate usage tracking.

✂️ Smart Truncation

When terminal width is detected, status lines automatically truncate with ellipsis (...) if they exceed the available width, preventing line wrapping.

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🛠️ Development

Prerequisites

• Bun (v1.0+)
• Git
• Node.js 18+ (optional, for npm publishing)

Setup

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/ccstatusline.git
cd ccstatusline

# Install dependencies
bun install

Development Commands

# Run in TUI mode (configuration)
bun run src/ccstatusline.ts

# Build for distribution
bun run build

📁 Project Structure

ccstatusline/
├── src/
│   ├── ccstatusline.ts         # Main entry point
│   ├── tui/                    # React/Ink configuration UI
│   │   ├── App.tsx             # Root TUI component
│   │   ├── index.tsx           # TUI entry point
│   │   └── components/         # UI components
│   │       ├── MainMenu.tsx
│   │       ├── LineSelector.tsx
│   │       ├── ItemsEditor.tsx
│   │       ├── ColorMenu.tsx
│   │       ├── PowerlineSetup.tsx
│   │       └── ...
│   ├── widgets/                # Status line widget implementations
│   │   ├── Model.ts
│   │   ├── GitBranch.ts
│   │   ├── TokensTotal.ts
│   │   ├── OutputStyle.ts
│   │   └── ...
│   ├── utils/                  # Utility functions
│   │   ├── config.ts           # Settings management
│   │   ├── renderer.ts         # Core rendering logic
│   │   ├── powerline.ts        # Powerline font utilities
│   │   ├── colors.ts           # Color definitions
│   │   └── claude-settings.ts  # Claude Code integration
│   └── types/                  # TypeScript type definitions
│       ├── Settings.ts
│       ├── Widget.ts
│       ├── PowerlineConfig.ts
│       └── ...
├── dist/                       # Built files (generated)
├── package.json
├── tsconfig.json
└── README.md

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

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📄 License

MIT © Matthew Breedlove

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👤 Author

Matthew Breedlove

• GitHub: @sirmalloc

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🔗 Related Projects

• tweakcc - Customize Claude Code themes, thinking verbs, and more.
• ccusage - Track and display Claude Code usage metrics.

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🙏 Acknowledgments

• Built for use with Claude Code CLI by Anthropic
• Powered by Ink for the terminal UI
• Made with ❤️ for the Claude Code community

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