squirrel-phases

squirrel-phases is a command for Claude Code from kubalajiri/claude-squirrel. It costs 19 tokens per session (305 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for viewing or editing the idle-phase ladder used by the Squirrel status line. The ladder controls background and text colours and how long each phase lasts.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps list phases, add, change, or remove a phase, and restore the default phase settings.
Why use it?
It lets you adjust one idle phase at a time without rebuilding the full configuration or changing unrelated phases.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

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 It helps list phases, add, change, or remove a phase, and restore the default phase settings.

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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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Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 305 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 $0.00019 $0.00305
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00152
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00030

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4eb194f807ff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

squirrel-phases 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 9d 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-phases.md · 22 lines

What it actually says

Run this exact command with the Bash tool and show the user its output verbatim:

sh "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/squirrel.sh" --phases "$ARGUMENTS"

With no arguments, this lists the current ladder. add <seconds> bg=<colour|off> [text=<colour|off>] [bold=on|off] adds a new phase; set <seconds> [bg=..] [text=..] [bold=..] overlays only the field(s) given onto the phase at that after value, leaving everything else about it (and every other phase) untouched; remove <seconds> drops one phase; reset discards all overrides and restores the shipped ladder. bold makes the text colour bold (default false; both shipped phases ship true).

Never construct or write idlePhases JSON by hand — always go through this command (or --show-phases/--add-phase/--set-phase/--remove-phase/--reset-phases), which edit one phase at a time and never touch the others.

Do not do anything else.

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. 9d ago First seen · 22 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 4eb194f807ff

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squirrel-phases is a command published in the GitHub repository kubalajiri/claude-squirrel (2 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 305 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.