Usage

Claude Status Line

Claude Code · status

Render context, model, path, and git state in Claude Code.

The Claude status line command reads Claude Code’s session snapshot from stdin and prints a compact terminal status line.

Output

The rendered line includes:

a 20-circle context indicator: 🟣 represents used context and 🟢 unused context
active model name
current project path
git branch
staged and unstaged change counts
ahead/behind counts when an upstream branch exists

Runtime behavior

The command is designed for low latency. It uses go-git directly instead of spawning git, and it collects git status, branch, ahead/behind, and context rendering concurrently.

Claude Code invokes the command through the statusLine setting that scut claude config install writes.

Use scut claude status-line --short to render a compact 10-circle context indicator instead.

Claude Code payload

Scut follows Claude Code’s official status-line payload documentation. The command tolerates newly added input fields, so Claude Code can evolve its payload without breaking existing status lines.

For troubleshooting, scut claude --log-level=debug status-line records the full incoming payload in the status-line JSONL log. This may contain local paths and session metadata; bare --log does not record it.