A setup guide for pulse-line, a customizable status bar that shows information during Claude Code sessions.

Use it to install pulse-line, restart and reconnect its Claude Code settings, change themes, or fix display issues.

It helps install the status bar, configure its settings, and diagnose problems when it does not appear.

setup-guide — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by knqiufan: A setup guide for pulse-line, a customizable status bar…

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 skills/knqiufan/pulse-line/setup-guide

Any agent

npx skills add knqiufan/pulse-line --skill setup-guide

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/knqiufan/pulse-line

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install pulse-line, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 13 commands, 4 hooks.

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README.md

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Your own site

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 678 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00039	$0.00678
Opus 5	$0.00019	$0.00339
Sonnet 5	$0.00008	$0.00136
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00068

Measured 4d ago against content hash 27dee771433b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

setup-guide 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 4d 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.

3. Write `statusLine.command` to `~/.claude/settings.json`

skills/setup-guide/SKILL.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pulse Line Setup Guide

When to Use

User asks to install or set up pulse-line
User asks to configure or customize the status bar
User reports the status bar is not showing
User wants to change themes, enable/disable modules, or adjust layout

Installation

Run the following command to install and configure pulse-line:

npx -y pulse-line@latest install

This command will:

Create the config directory at ~/.claude/pulse/
Save default configuration to ~/.claude/pulse/config.json
Write statusLine.command to ~/.claude/settings.json

After running, tell the user to restart Claude Code for the status bar to appear.

If Already Installed via Plugin Marketplace

The plugin automatically configures itself on the next session start via a SessionStart hook. If the status bar still doesn't appear:

Check if ~/.claude/settings.json contains:

{
  "statusLine": {
    "type": "command",
    "command": "npx -y pulse-line@latest"
  }
}

If missing, run:

npx -y pulse-line@latest install

Restart Claude Code.

Common Customizations

Switch Theme

npx -y pulse-line@latest theme <name>

Available themes: dark, light, cyberpunk, forest, ocean

Switch Language

npx -y pulse-line@latest language zh

Enable/Disable Modules

npx -y pulse-line@latest enable <module>
npx -y pulse-line@latest disable <module>

Available modules: model, git, workspace, context, cacheRatio, mcpStatus, accountUsage, turns, thinking, cost, duration, rateLimits, weeklyQuota, outputStyle, thirdPartyApi

Edit Full Configuration

npx -y pulse-line@latest config

Config file location: ~/.claude/pulse/config.json

Troubleshooting

Status bar not showing

Verify ~/.claude/settings.json has the statusLine field
Run npx -y pulse-line@latest install to re-configure
Restart Claude Code

Icons showing as boxes or garbled characters

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 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.

4d ago First seen · 108 lines · 39 tokens per session scan B 27dee771433b

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setup-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository knqiufan/pulse-line (6 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 678 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 2026-08-31.

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