A Claude Code status line that displays the active model, reasoning effort, thinking state, and rate-limit pressure, with alarms for silent model downgrades. A status line is information shown in the command-line interface while you work.

Monitoring model selection, reasoning settings, thinking status, and rate-limit pressure while using Claude Code.

It makes changes in model or usage state visible instead of leaving them unnoticed during a session.

model-guard — Plugin for Claude Code by ventusff/claude-model-guard

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.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ventusff/claude-model-guard

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.

When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 3 skills, 7 hooks cost 164 tokens a session between them.

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.

Security

Grade A, and why

model-guard 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 1mo 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.

.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 24 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "model-guard",
  "displayName": "Model Guard",
  "version": "1.8.1",
  "description": "🚨 Statusline that catches silent model downgrades in Claude Code — and hooks that undo a safeguard-flag downgrade: stop the turn, switch the session to your recovery model, continue the task. Drives tmux, zellij and kitty. 8 languages, interactive 30-second setup.",
  "author": {
    "name": "ventusff",
    "url": "https://github.com/ventusff"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/ventusff/claude-model-guard",
  "repository": "https://github.com/ventusff/claude-model-guard",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "statusline",
    "model",
    "downgrade",
    "alarm",
    "rate-limit",
    "monitor",
    "hooks",
    "recovery"
  ]
}

Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 3 skills, 7 hooks travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 164 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside plugin.json in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

marketplace.json 503 B

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.

1mo ago Changed 6e7c06f1491d
2mo ago Changed 12d344b4581c
2mo ago Changed b396dafc52dd
2mo ago Changed 0a7554787cec
2mo ago Changed · +2 lines 00be7f673a73
2mo ago First seen · 22 lines scan A 052c0e310a00

Subscribe to this mod's changes

model-guard is a plugin published in the GitHub repository ventusff/claude-model-guard (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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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