statusline

A command for controlling which information appears in a coding-agent status line, including its light or dark style and compactness. A status line is the small persistent display showing session information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to show the current appearance, reset it, or interactively configure the status line. Preferences are saved in the user's local settings file.
Why use it?
It keeps personal display preferences separate from shared project settings. It also explains that changes to the status-line command take effect after restarting the session.

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/restarter/lets-workflow/statusline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/restarter/lets-workflow
Per session 18 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,042 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 $0.00018 $0.01042
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00521
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00208
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00104

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1ea378020565, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

statusline 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 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/lets/commands/statusline.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Statusline Appearance

Thin dispatcher for the statusline's persisted appearance. All file work lives in the Go subcommand lets statusline config (cli/internal/statuslinecmd/); this command captures intent via AskUserQuestion, shells out with --json, and renders the result.

The choice is written to .claude/settings.local.json (personal, gitignored) - NOT the tracked .claude/settings.json - so your --light/--compact preference never gets forced onto collaborators. A changed statusLine command is re-read by Claude Code only on session start - tell the user to restart.

IMPORTANT: If the spec below invokes any deferred tool (e.g. AskUserQuestion), you MUST load and call it as specified. Never skip the call, never substitute a default answer of your own - the tool invocation is part of the contract. This is critical.

Step 0: Parse Argument

Argument Action
show go to Show (read-only, no prompt)
reset go to Reset (persist defaults)
(none) / anything else go to Configure (interactive)

Show

lets statusline config --show --json

Parse the envelope and report the current appearance in one line (palette + which rows are hidden + compact), plus the settings_path. Then stop (render the Output line).

Reset

lets statusline config --reset --json

Parse the envelope; on ok=true confirm "reset to defaults". Add the restart note. Render the Output line.

Configure

Step C1: Load current state

lets statusline config --show --json

Parse appearance (light, compact, no_tip, no_dir, no_task) from the envelope. Use it to tell the user what's currently set (the prompts below select the absolute desired state, not a delta). If the envelope is ok=false with error.kind == "foreign_statusline", the local file has a custom statusLine - surface error.message and ask whether to overwrite it (if yes, add --force to the apply in Step C3); otherwise stop.

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 lines

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 · 111 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 1ea378020565

Subscribe to this mod's changes

statusline is a command published in the GitHub repository restarter/lets-workflow (17 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 1,042 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 2026-08-30.