bulwark-statusline

bulwark-statusline is a skill for Claude Code from QBall-Inc/the-bulwark. It costs 26 tokens per session (1,081 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A configuration tool for the Bulwark status line in Claude Code. A status line is the information displayed while you work, and this tool offers minimal, developer, and cost layouts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Initializing the status line, switching presets, and customizing the information shown during a Claude Code session.
Why use it?
It lets you install the display or change which project and usage information appears without editing the configuration manually.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; names the AskUserQuestion tool; positional $N argument.

Part of the the-bulwark plugin — 30 skills, 17 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Initializing the status line, switching presets, and customizing the information shown during a Claude Code session.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/qball-inc/the-bulwark/bulwark-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 QBall-Inc/the-bulwark --skill bulwark-statusline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/QBall-Inc/the-bulwark

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install the-bulwark, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 30 skills, 17 agents, 6 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,081 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 75
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00026 $0.01081
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00541
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00216
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00108

Measured 11d ago against content hash 7c24d3192bd0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bulwark-statusline 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/statusline.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/bulwark-statusline/SKILL.md · 169 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bulwark Status Line

Configure the Bulwark multi-line status line for Claude Code.


When to Use

Use this skill when:

  • Setting up the Bulwark status line for the first time (init)
  • Switching between status line presets (minimal, developer, cost)
  • User asks to configure or customize the status line display

Invocation

This skill can be invoked two ways:

Method Example
Command /bulwark-statusline minimal
Conversational "Change my status line to minimal"

When invoked, you (Claude) execute the steps using the tools declared above (Bash, Read, Edit).


Usage

/bulwark-statusline init        # Install with default (developer) preset
/bulwark-statusline minimal     # Switch to minimal preset (1 line)
/bulwark-statusline developer   # Switch to developer preset (3 lines)
/bulwark-statusline cost        # Switch to cost preset (2 lines)

Argument Handling

The subcommand is passed via $1:

/bulwark-statusline init
                     ^^^^
                     $1 = "init"

Parse $1 and execute the corresponding subcommand below.


Subcommand: init

Install the Bulwark status line for first-time setup.

Execute these steps:

  1. Bash: Create config directory

    mkdir -p ~/.bulwark
    
  2. Bash: Copy default config template

    cp "${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}/skills/bulwark-statusline/templates/statusline-default.yaml" ~/.bulwark/statusline.yaml
    
  3. Spawn statusline-setup agent to update settings.json:

    Task(subagent_type="statusline-setup", prompt="
      GOAL: Add statusLine configuration to .claude/settings.json
      TARGET: .claude/settings.json (project level)
    
      EXACT JSON to add at top level of settings.json:
      {
        \"statusLine\": {
          \"type\": \"command\",
          \"command\": \"${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}/skills/bulwark-statusline/scripts/statusline.sh\"
        }
      }
    
      If .claude/settings.json does not exist, create it with just this content.
      If it exists, merge the statusLine key into the existing JSON, preserving all other keys.
    ")
    

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md 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.

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. 11d ago First seen · 169 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 7c24d3192bd0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bulwark-statusline is a skill published in the GitHub repository QBall-Inc/the-bulwark (8 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 1,081 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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