claude-code-neatstatusline

Clean status line for Claude Code.

What it does

• displays model name + effort level
• context window usage bar (▰▱, green → yellow → red based on usage)
• 5-hour rate limit bar with same color coding
• user@host · working directory path
• git branch name, staged/unstaged line counts, untracked file count
• ✓ indicator when repo is clean

Setup

1. Download the script to ~/.claude/:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zeroznet/claude-code-neatstatusline/main/claude-code-neatstatusline.sh -o ~/.claude/statusline-command.sh

FreeBSD without curl:

fetch -q -o ~/.claude/statusline-command.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zeroznet/claude-code-neatstatusline/main/claude-code-neatstatusline.sh

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

{
  "statusLine": {
    "type": "command",
    "command": "bash ~/.claude/statusline-command.sh"
  }
}

Configuration

The script reads your effort level from ~/.claude/settings.json:

{
  "effortLevel": "high"
}

Supported values: low, medium, high, or any custom string.

Files

• claude-code-neatstatusline.sh - the status line script

License

Licensed under the BSD-2-Clause license. See LICENSE.