setup

A setup command for connecting the simple statusline to Claude Code. It adds the statusline command to Claude Code’s settings while preserving other settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create the statusline link, update the Claude Code settings file, and configure the two-line status display.
Why use it?
It avoids manually wiring the display script into the assistant’s configuration and keeps the connection working through plugin updates.

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/postmodum37/simple-claude-code-statusline/setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Postmodum37/simple-claude-code-statusline
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 251 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00010 $0.00251
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00125
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00050
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00025

Measured 2d ago against content hash b1f4d17eec9d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

setup scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

2. **Read ~/.claude/settings.json**
commands/setup.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

Simple Statusline Setup

Configure the user's statusline setting to use this plugin.

Steps:

  1. Create symlink at ~/.claude/statusline.sh

    • Find the plugin's script at ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/statusline.sh
    • Create symlink: ln -sf "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/statusline.sh" ~/.claude/statusline.sh
    • This allows plugin updates to work automatically
  2. Read ~/.claude/settings.json

    • Create the file with {} if it doesn't exist
  3. Add/update the statusLine config:

    {
      "statusLine": {
        "type": "command",
        "command": "~/.claude/statusline.sh"
      }
    }
    
    • Preserve all other existing settings
    • The symlink points to the plugin, so updates work automatically
  4. Confirm success

    • Tell the user the statusline is configured
    • Mention that future plugin updates will work automatically
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 · 40 lines · 10 tokens per session scan B b1f4d17eec9d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setup is a command published in the GitHub repository Postmodum37/simple-claude-code-statusline (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 251 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.