haiku-statusline

haiku-statusline is a skill for Claude Code from gigsmart/haiku-method. It costs 36 tokens per session (865 once invoked), scanned B, original, Apache-2.0.

A Claude Code status-line add-on that shows the active intent's stage, phase, progress, and whether work is running or gated.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install, remove, or preview the status line locally or globally. It also preserves the previous status line as a fallback when no active intent is present.
Why use it?
It provides a quick view of project progress without opening separate planning files or commands.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the haiku plugin — 31 skills, 2 hooks, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to install, remove, or preview the status line locally or globally. It also preserves the previous status line as a fallback when no active intent is present.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gigsmart/haiku-method/haiku-statusline
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 gigsmart/haiku-method --skill haiku-statusline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gigsmart/haiku-method

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install haiku, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 31 skills, 2 hooks, 2 MCP servers.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 865 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00036 $0.00865
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00432
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00173
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00086

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5ddb973a2f09, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

haiku-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 9d 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.

Run the install command from the project (or pass `--global` to wire `~/.claude/settings.json`):
plugin/skills/haiku-statusline/SKILL.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Status Line

H·AI·K·U ships a custom Claude Code status line that shows, at a glance, where the active intent is in its lifecycle:

⬢ admin-portal-reimagine · ⬢⬢⬢⬣⬡⬡ development ❯ execute · 7/12 units
  • brand mark · then the intent slug
  • the stage pipeline: complete · active (phase-hued) · pending
  • the active stage, a flow mark ( running · gated), and the phase (color-coded: execute=cyan, fix-loop=orange, review/approve=yellow, gate=magenta, elaborate=grey)
  • a phase-appropriate aggregate: units done in execute, findings closed in fix-loop, units in review/approve/gate

When you're not on an active intent (no .haiku/, the intent is sealed, or you're outside a project), it transparently falls back to whatever status line you had before — it's purely additive.

Install

Run the install command from the project (or pass --global to wire ~/.claude/settings.json):

haiku statusline install

This points Claude Code's statusLine at haiku statusline and saves your existing status line as the fallback (in .haiku/statusline-fallback.json, or ~/.haiku/ for --global). The status line refreshes on the next prompt.

  • Default (no flag): wires the project .claude/settings.json.
  • --global: wires the user-level ~/.claude/settings.json so the haiku line shows in every project (and falls back to your original line outside intents).

Remove

haiku statusline uninstall

Restores the original status line you had before install (or removes the statusLine key entirely if you had none). Add --global if you installed globally.

Preview

To see the line for the current project without installing, feed the status-line payload to the render command:

echo "{\"workspace\":{\"current_dir\":\"$PWD\"}}" | haiku statusline

Set NO_COLOR=1 for a plain (no-ANSI) line; set HAIKU_STATUSLINE_DEBUG=1 to print on stderr why it rendered nothing (no .haiku/, sealed intent, etc.).

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 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. 9d ago First seen · 58 lines · 36 tokens per session scan B 5ddb973a2f09

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haiku-statusline is a skill published in the GitHub repository gigsmart/haiku-method (24 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 865 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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