Instructions for removing the claude-code-tools HUD statusline, a display that shows status information in the command-line interface. It covers configuration, caches, logs, and preserving settings.

Use it when uninstalling the HUD, deciding whether to keep its configuration, and cleaning up its cache and log files.

It helps remove the add-on's files and configuration without disturbing a different statusline plugin or unrelated settings.

uninstall — Skill for Claude Code by ai-native-sys/claude-code-tools

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.

Any agent

npx skills add ai-native-sys/claude-code-tools --skill uninstall

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ai-native-sys/claude-code-tools

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install hud, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 450 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan D 2 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.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00016	$0.00450
Opus 5.5	$0.00006	$0.00180
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00003	$0.00090
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00045

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 4788e7319ce7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

uninstall scanned grade D with 2 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 2mo 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.

1. Remove the `statusLine` entry from `~/.claude/settings.json`

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

rm -rf ~/.claude/plugins/claude-code-tools/hud/cache

plugins/hud/skills/uninstall/SKILL.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

Uninstall claude-code-tools HUD

Guide the user through cleanly removing the HUD statusline plugin.

Step 1: Confirm with user

Tell the user this will:

Remove the statusLine entry from ~/.claude/settings.json
Delete HUD config, cache, and log files from ~/.claude/plugins/claude-code-tools/hud/

Ask the user to confirm before proceeding. Also ask if they want to keep their config file in case they reinstall later.

Step 2: Remove statusLine from settings

Read ~/.claude/settings.json
Check if the statusLine field exists and contains a reference to hud (look for claude-code-tools/hud in the command string)
If it matches, remove the statusLine field entirely. Do NOT remove it if it points to a different statusline plugin (e.g., claude-hud).
Preserve all other settings and write back.

If the statusLine doesn't reference our hud plugin, inform the user and skip this step.

Step 3: Clean up data files

Remove the HUD data directory:

rm -rf ~/.claude/plugins/claude-code-tools/hud/cache
rm -rf ~/.claude/plugins/claude-code-tools/hud/logs

If the user chose to keep their config, skip deleting the config file. Otherwise:

rm -f ~/.claude/plugins/claude-code-tools/hud/config.json

If the directory is now empty, remove it:

rmdir ~/.claude/plugins/claude-code-tools/hud 2>/dev/null

Step 4: Report result

Tell the user the HUD statusline has been removed. The statusline will disappear on the next Claude Code render cycle (no restart needed).

If they want to reinstall later, they can run /hud:setup again.

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.

2mo ago First seen · 55 lines · 16 tokens per session scan D 4788e7319ce7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

uninstall is a skill published in the GitHub repository ai-native-sys/claude-code-tools (1 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 450 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it D with 2 findings (reads agent configuration directories, recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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