install

A one-time installer for the SpecSwarm status line, the text display that shows information about your coding session. It preserves an existing status line, adds builder activity and safety information, and updates while the session is idle.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install the status line, see active or failed builders, check when a session is safe to close, and keep an existing status-line setup as the base.
Why use it?
It makes it easier to tell whether background work is still running, has failed, or is safe to close. If no SpecSwarm conduct project is present, the status line stays unchanged.

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/martybonacci/specswarm/install
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MartyBonacci/specswarm
Per session 76 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 392 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 $0.00076 $0.00392
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00196
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00039

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7420f3b1060c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

install scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories โ€” prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency โ€” 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.

plugins/ss-status/commands/install.md ยท 28 lines

What it actually says

ss-status install

Run the installer, then explain what happened:

bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/install.sh" install

(Pass --refresh N through if the user gave it.)

Then tell the user, briefly:

  • What they'll see: their statusline exactly as before, plus one extra line in SpecSwarm conduct projects โ€” ๐Ÿ”จ building: <name> <elapsed> while a builder dispatch runs, ๐Ÿ’€ last build DIED (exit N) if the most recent run failed, โœ“ builders idle โ€” safe to close otherwise. In projects with no .specswarm/conduct/, nothing changes at all.
  • The point: "is it safe to shut down or close this session?" is now answered at a glance, in real time โ€” no daemon, nothing to restart after a reboot.
  • How it stays cheap: the wrapper re-renders their (potentially heavy) base statusline at most once per minute from cache, while the builder segment โ€” a few file checks โ€” refreshes every tick.
  • Reversal: /ss-status:uninstall restores their exact previous configuration.

If the installer reported "wrapped existing statusline", confirm which script is now the base so the user knows nothing was lost.

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 ยท 28 lines ยท 76 tokens per session scan A 7420f3b1060c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

install is a command published in the GitHub repository MartyBonacci/specswarm (65 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 392 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.