squirrel-style

squirrel-style is a command for Claude Code from kubalajiri/claude-squirrel. It costs 24 tokens per session (706 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for viewing and changing the colours and other display settings of individual status-bar segments. It can adjust text colour, background, boldness, opacity, and the punctuation before a segment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect available segment styles or change how selected status information looks, such as making text dimmer, bolder, or differently coloured.
Why use it?
It lets you tune the status bar without changing its underlying information. Warning colours remain visible unless you explicitly choose to override them.

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 Use it to inspect available segment styles or change how selected status information looks, such as making text dimmer, bolder, or differently coloured.

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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 24 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 706 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 $0.00024 $0.00706
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00353
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00141
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00071

Measured 8d ago against content hash cca0add170cc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

squirrel-style 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 8d 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-style.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

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

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

With no arguments this lists every segment that carries a style and the fields available.

Field Values Effect
fg colour name, #rrggbb, or auto foreground colour
bg colour name, #rrggbb, or auto background behind the segment
bold on / off bold text
opacity 0.01.0, or auto fades the text toward the background
sep dot bar space none, or auto the punctuation printed before this segment
force on / off let fg/opacity override meaning-carrying colours too

The rule to explain when asked: a warning always breaks through. fg and opacity recolour anything decorative — the all-clear green, a clean branch's grey, the dimmed token counts — but never a yellow or red one. A usage bar that turns red at 80%, the yellow session-reset countdown and a dirty-branch marker keep their colours, so styling a segment can never make it stop warning you. force=on opts out of that; only suggest it when the user clearly wants total control.

opacity is a real alpha blend toward the idle phase banner's colour while one is painted. When no banner is painted there is no knowable background, so it falls back to the terminal's own dim attribute — and it does the same for named ANSI colours, whose actual RGB is the terminal's choice rather than something we can blend against honestly.

While an idle phase banner or a bar rule is painting the whole line, its background is applied last and covers a segment's own bg — the style is not broken, it is underneath. Say so if a user reports their background vanishing during an idle alarm.

sep is what to reach for when a reordered layout punctuates oddly — a segment moved next to a group it does not belong to keeps that group's separator until you override it.

  • set <segment> <field>=<value> ... overlays only the fields given, leaving the segment's other fields (and every other segment) untouched. auto clears one field.
  • clear <segment> drops that segment's whole style; reset drops all of them.

Every edit validates before writing: an unknown segment, an invalid colour, an out-of-range opacity, or an unknown separator is refused and nothing is written. Never write the segmentStyles config key by hand — always go through this command.

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. 8d ago First seen · 49 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A cca0add170cc

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squirrel-style is a command published in the GitHub repository kubalajiri/claude-squirrel (2 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 706 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.

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