squirrel

squirrel is a skill for Claude Code from kubalajiri/claude-squirrel. It costs 158 tokens per session (14,351 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A configuration and troubleshooting guide for Squirrel, a two-line Claude Code status bar showing context use, usage limits, Git state, cost, and activity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install, configure, explain, or troubleshoot the Squirrel status line, including its displayed fields, nickname, colours, and sensitivity settings.
Why use it?
It puts key session and usage information in one place and provides commands for changing settings without manually editing configuration files.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the squirrel plugin — 1 skill, 37 commands, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to install, configure, explain, or troubleshoot the Squirrel status line, including its displayed fields, nickname, colours, and sensitivity settings.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add kubalajiri/claude-squirrel
Claude Code
/plugin install squirrel

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install squirrel, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 37 commands, 6 hooks.

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Per session 158 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 14,351 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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.
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 $0.00158 $0.14351
Opus 5 $0.00079 $0.07175
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.02870
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.01435

Measured 8d ago against content hash 91bc095505c1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

squirrel 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 8d 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.

plugin/skills/squirrel/SKILL.md · 662 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 662 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Squirrel status line

Squirrel is a two-line Claude Code status line: context usage, 5-hour and weekly rate limits, git state, cost, and an activity chip that tells you when Claude is working, idle, or needs you. Everything about it is configured through one bundled script — never by hand-editing the user's files.

1. How to act

Always change settings by running the bundled script, never by hand-editing the user's config file or settings.json:

sh "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/squirrel.sh" <subcommand> <args>
  • Show the command's own output back to the user verbatim — it is written for them.
  • Run --show-config first when the request depends on current values (e.g. "what's my alarm set to?", "make it a bit more sensitive").
  • Run --help-text if you are unsure of an exact key or subcommand name; it lists every subcommand, segment key, and tunable with its bounds, pulled live from the code so it can never drift out of date.
  • Every setting has a subcommand — see §4. Never hand-edit the config file; there is no setting Squirrel can't reach through a command.

2. What the bar shows

Line 1 — usage:

Segment key Shows
context ctx ▰▰▰▱▱ 42% (84k/200k) — context-window used, as a bar and percentage
tokens the (used/window) token-count suffix on the context segment
session the 5-hour rate-limit bucket, as a bar and percentage — 19pp/90% when this session's own contribution to the account's usage is known ('19 percentage points of the account's 90%'), plain 90% otherwise; see §6
weekly the all-models weekly rate-limit bucket
permodel per-model weekly buckets alongside the all-models one (needs weekly on)
resets ↻ <time> reset countdowns on the 5-hour and weekly segments
share (off by default) a standalone version of the same contribution figure, labelled mine (not 5h, so it never collides with the session segment) — mine 19pp/89% by default; see §6
share-life (off by default) this session's share of all live sessions' lifetime usage, labelled lifelife 22%
sessions (off by default) every live session ranked by attributed 5h-window share, current one marked A 52% · B 31% · ▸C 12% · D 5% (or ? for a session with no attribution yet)

Read the full file on GitHub · 662 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. 8d ago First seen · 662 lines · 158 tokens per session scan A 91bc095505c1

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squirrel is a skill published in the GitHub repository kubalajiri/claude-squirrel (2 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 158 tokens to every session and 14,351 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-31.

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