squirrel-help

squirrel-help is a command for Claude Code from kubalajiri/claude-squirrel. It costs 10 tokens per session (133 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that explains Squirrel’s status line and the main commands used to configure it. Squirrel is a status-line tool for showing information about a Claude Code session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn the available display and configuration commands, or to apply requests such as hiding cost information or changing idle warnings.
Why use it?
It helps new users understand what the status line displays and how to change it without memorising command details.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the squirrel plugin — 1 skill, 37 commands, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to learn the available display and configuration commands, or to…

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add kubalajiri/claude-squirrel
Claude Code
/plugin install squirrel

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install squirrel, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 37 commands, 6 hooks.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 10 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 133 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00010 $0.00133
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00067
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00027
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00013

Measured 6d ago against content hash 2ffd7e35ada1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

squirrel-help 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 6d 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.

plugin/commands/squirrel-help.md · 13 lines

What it actually says

Run this exact command with the Bash tool:

sh "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/squirrel.sh" --help-text

Then summarise for the user, in a short table, what the status line shows and the handful of commands they are most likely to want (/squirrel-nick, /squirrel-show, /squirrel-alarm, /squirrel-bg, /squirrel-config). Mention they can simply ask in plain language — for example "hide the cost" or "warn me sooner when it's idle" — and Claude will apply it.

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. 6d ago First seen · 13 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 2ffd7e35ada1

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squirrel-help is a command published in the GitHub repository kubalajiri/claude-squirrel (2 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 133 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 2026-08-31.