claude-statusline

A custom status line binary for Claude Code, written in Go. Reads JSON from stdin (provided by Claude Code's status hook) and outputs a formatted, ANSI-colored status line.

● Opus 4 ➜ statusline git:(master)                               6k/200k

What it shows:

• Gitea service status (green/red dot)
• Model name
• Current directory
• Git branch and dirty indicator
• Context window usage

Install

go install gitea.kajkowalski.nl/kjanat/claude-statusline@latest
cp "$(go env GOPATH)/bin/claude-statusline" ~/.claude/statusline

Or build from source:

git clone https://gitea.kajkowalski.nl/kjanat/claude-statusline.git
go build -C claude-statusline -ldflags="-s -w" -o ~/.claude/statusline .

Configure Claude Code

Add to your ~/.claude/settings.json:

{
  "statusLine": {
    "type": "command",
    "command": "~/.claude/statusline",
    "padding": 0
  }
}

Development

Requires Go 1.25+.

# Build
task build

# Run tests
task test

# Run tests with coverage
task test:cover

# Lint
task lint

# Run with test fixture
task run

License

MIT