statuspane

A floating status card for Claude Code.

Model, context, rate limits, cost and branch at a glance, your GitHub CI and deploys, plus progress bars any script can feed.

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Why

Claude Code's statusLine is one line of text from a shell script. statuspane is a
mod: a small card that lives just above the
prompt, reads Claude Code's own session figures, and can be clicked — no script to write.

Features

It is drawn in Claude Code's own theme colors, so it follows dark, light and colorblind themes: gauges in Claude's
accent, turning to the theme's warning color from 60 % and its error color from 85 % (context: 50 % / 80 %).

Install

Needs Claude Code 2.1.287 or later, the release that brought mods (function hooks); tested on 2.1.300. Mods are
early access: their API may change between releases, and a release that breaks the card gets a fix here.

/plugin marketplace add xuanji86/claude-statuspane
/plugin install statuspane@claude-statuspane

claude plugin marketplace add xuanji86/claude-statuspane
claude plugin install statuspane@claude-statuspane

The card appears in terminals at least 70 columns wide; the desktop app shows none, since it has its own, and a session only the desktop app draws, or none, polls nothing (no git, no gh). It adds to your setup and replaces nothing:
a configured statusLine keeps showing; delete it from ~/.claude/settings.json if you want the
card alone.

Use

Settings — click ⚙ Click a line to switch it, [ - ] / [ + ] for the bar width (6–24), then ✓ Done.

Hidden — click ▾ hide One button stays at the right edge; click ◂ status to bring the card back. /statuspane does the same from the prompt.

The - at the top right of the panel is Claude Code's own "hide plugin panel". It hides the whole
panel, and only its keybinding brings it back (default ctrl+x ctrl+a). If your terminal doesn't
pass ctrl+x chords through, bind it to one key in ~/.claude/keybindings.json:

{
  "bindings": [
    { "context": "Chat", "bindings": { "ctrl+s": "abovePrompt:toggle", "ctrl+q": "chat:stash" } }
  ]
}

ctrl+s is "stash" by default, so the example moves stash to ctrl+q.

GitHub CI

Two switches on the settings page, both off until you turn them on. They need the
GitHub CLI signed in (gh auth login).

Each row reads <repo> <branch> and then:

All of one commit's workflows make one row; scheduled runs are left out.

Progress API

Show your own progress on the card, from any language or from another mod. Rows are sorted by id,
at most five show, and each one goes away by itself once its source stops reporting. The card reads
the 20 most recently written files, so old files left behind never crowd out a new one.

From any script: a JSON file

Write ~/.claude/statuspane/progress/<id>.json (the folder can be moved with
STATUSPANE_PROGRESS_DIR, an absolute path or one starting with ~/):

{ "label": "build", "percent": 42.5, "text": "3/7 · 1.2/min", "ttl": 300, "state": "running" }

<id> uses letters, digits, ., _ and -. Write to a temporary file and rename it over the
target so the card never reads half a file; delete the file to remove the row at once.

Ready-made helpers in examples/ (they check the id, cut fields to length and
write atomically; the shell one needs python3):

examples/report-progress.sh build "build" 42.5 "3/7"            # id label [percent] [text] [ttl] [state]

from report_progress import report, clear
report("my-job", "my job", 40, "4/10", state="running")
clear("my-job")

From another mod: $.statuspane

List statuspane under dependencies in your mod's plugin.json (its types are then laid into
your .claude-plugin/types/statuspane/), and call:

await $.statuspane.progress({ id: 'my-job', label: 'my job', percent: 40, text: '4/10', ttl: 120, state: 'running' })
await $.statuspane.clear('my-job')

Same fields as the file. Rows from a mod live in memory, so report again after statuspane reloads.

Already reporting

• ainiee-translate v1.14+ — progress --watch / --line show translation progress.

Privacy and safety

Its footprint, as the awesome-claude-code-mods scan reads it from claude plugin validate:

Everything stays on your machine. statuspane reads Claude Code's own session figures, runs
git branch --show-current in the session's directory, and lists the progress folder. Only with a
CI switch on does it reach out: it reads the origin remote and runs gh run list / gh run view
(and gh pr view after a merge) for that repository, through gh and your own sign-in. From that
folder it reads only *.json files of at most 64 KB, strips control, bidi and zero-width characters
from their text, cuts every field to length, and never runs anything they contain.

Develop

git clone https://github.com/xuanji86/claude-statuspane
cd claude-statuspane
claude plugin validate .
claude plugin test .
claude --plugin-dir .        # or add the folder to CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_DIRS

A session that loaded the mod from its folder reloads it each time you save a file. Issues and pull
requests are welcome.

License

MIT © Anji Xu