setup

A setup command for installing and configuring a command-line status bar for Claude Code. It copies the status display script and optional helpers into the Claude configuration directory.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install the statusline script and its optional Node.js helpers for live activity and subagent information.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of locating the plugin, copying its files, and making the status script executable. The status bar can then be configured to show coding-session activity.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/briansmith80/claude-code-status-bar/setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/briansmith80/claude-code-status-bar
Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,429 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00012 $0.01429
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00714
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00286
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00143

Measured 2d ago against content hash 51eb97f43189, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

setup scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

commands/setup.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

claude-code-status-bar Setup

You are setting up the claude-code-status-bar plugin. Follow these steps exactly.

Step 1: Detect Environment

Run these commands to detect the platform and locate the plugin:

echo "OS: $(uname -s)" && echo "Shell: $SHELL" && echo "Home: $HOME"

Find the plugin installation directory:

plugin_dir=""
for d in "${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.claude}"/plugins/cache/claude-code-status-bar/claude-code-status-bar/*/; do
  [ -d "$d" ] && plugin_dir="$d"
done
echo "Plugin dir: ${plugin_dir:-NOT FOUND}"

Step 2: Install Files

Copy the statusline script and helper to ~/.claude/:

target_dir="${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.claude}"
cp "${plugin_dir}statusline-command.sh" "${target_dir}/statusline-command.sh"
chmod +x "${target_dir}/statusline-command.sh"

# Copy Node.js helpers: live activity line + subagent panel rows
# (optional but recommended)
if [ -f "${plugin_dir}statusline-helper.js" ]; then
  cp "${plugin_dir}statusline-helper.js" "${target_dir}/statusline-helper.js"
fi
if [ -f "${plugin_dir}statusline-subagent.js" ]; then
  cp "${plugin_dir}statusline-subagent.js" "${target_dir}/statusline-subagent.js"
fi

# Copy version file
if [ -f "${plugin_dir}VERSION" ]; then
  cp "${plugin_dir}VERSION" "${target_dir}/.statusline-version"
fi

# Commented config template: always refresh the reference, and create the live
# statusline.conf from it on first install only — never overwrite an existing one.
if [ -f "${plugin_dir}statusline.conf.example" ]; then
  cp "${plugin_dir}statusline.conf.example" "${target_dir}/statusline.conf.example"
  [ -f "${target_dir}/statusline.conf" ] || cp "${plugin_dir}statusline.conf.example" "${target_dir}/statusline.conf"
fi

echo "Files installed to ${target_dir}"

Step 3: Configure Settings

Read the current settings.json and merge in the statusLine configuration:

target_dir="${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.claude}"
settings_file="${target_dir}/settings.json"
command_value="bash ${target_dir}/statusline-command.sh"

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 128 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 51eb97f43189

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setup is a command published in the GitHub repository briansmith80/claude-code-status-bar (17 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 1,429 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.