bob-statusline

bob-statusline is a command for Claude Code from PounceAI/bob-control. It costs 16 tokens per session (581 once invoked), scanned B, original, Apache-2.0.

A command that adds or updates a live Bob task-board summary in Claude Code’s status line. It shows the running task for the current project, or a shared board when no project board exists.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install the status line in Claude Code settings or remove it with the removal option.
Why use it?
It keeps task progress visible in every Claude Code session without opening the task board separately.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

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 bob-companion plugin — 4 skills, 8 commands, 1 agent, 1 MCP server shipped together

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 PounceAI/bob-control
Claude Code
/plugin install bob-companion

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install bob-companion, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 8 commands, 1 agent, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 16 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 581 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 5.1 $0.00016 $0.00581
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00291
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00116
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00058

Measured 5d ago against content hash e605217050bd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

bob-statusline 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 5d 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 the user settings file `~/.claude/settings.json`
claude-plugin/commands/bob-statusline.md · 57 lines

What it actually says

Wire the Bob task-board status line into the user's Claude Code settings so every session shows a live ⚡ Bob: N running · #id title summary alongside the model and directory.

The status-line script ships with this plugin at:

${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/statusline-bob.mjs

It tracks the current session's project board (<project>/data/tasks.db) — the same board this plugin's MCP server uses (${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}/data/tasks.db) — so each open project shows only its own queue. If a project has no board yet, it falls back to the shared portable board (~/.bob-tasks/tasks.db).

Do this:

  1. Determine the absolute path to the script above (expand ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}).

  2. Read the user settings file ~/.claude/settings.json (Windows: %USERPROFILE%\.claude\settings.json). If it doesn't exist, start from {}. Parse it as JSON, preserving every existing key.

  3. If $ARGUMENTS contains --remove: delete the statusLine key (if present) and write the file back. Confirm removal and stop.

  4. Otherwise set the statusLine key to:

    {
      "type": "command",
      "command": "node \"<ABS_SCRIPT_PATH>\""
    }
    

    where <ABS_SCRIPT_PATH> is the resolved absolute path from step 1. On Windows, JSON-escape the backslashes in the path (each \ becomes \\). Do not append a board-path argument — omitting it lets the script resolve the current project's board per session (and fall back to the shared portable board when a project has none).

    If a statusLine key already exists, replace it (tell the user you overwrote the previous one, and what it was).

  5. Write the merged JSON back to ~/.claude/settings.json with 2-space indentation, then verify it still parses as valid JSON.

  6. Confirm what you wrote and remind the user to reload Claude Code (or start a new session) for the status line to take effect. Mention they can run /bob-statusline --remove to undo it, and that the line stays quiet (model · dir only) whenever no Bob tasks are running or queued.

Keep it to a short confirmation — this is a one-time setup action, not an essay.

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. 5d ago First seen · 57 lines · 16 tokens per session scan B e605217050bd

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bob-statusline is a command published in the GitHub repository PounceAI/bob-control (1 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 581 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.