headsup-colors

headsup-colors is a skill for Codex from wasulajr/headsup. It costs 41 tokens per session (189 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for changing the colors of iTerm2 tabs used by Codex sessions in idle, working, and waiting states.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want to change Codex tab colors, including the active working color.
Why use it?
It makes different session states easier to recognize from the terminal.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: reads ~/.codex or $CODEX_HOME. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it when you want to change Codex tab colors, including the active working color.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wasulajr/headsup/headsup-colors
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 wasulajr/headsup --skill headsup-colors
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wasulajr/headsup

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 189 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 $0.00041 $0.00189
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00095
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00038
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00019

Measured 9d ago against content hash e9bf80878f5e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

headsup-colors 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 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.

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.

codex-skills/headsup-colors/SKILL.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

Codex Headsup Colors

Edit ~/.codex/hooks/headsup-status.conf. Change only these variables:

  • IDLE_COLOR
  • PROCESS_COLOR
  • WAIT_COLOR

Accept 6-character hex values without #, or translate common color names yourself. Preserve all other file content.

After editing, if PROCESS_COLOR changed, apply it immediately to the current tab because Codex is currently working:

~/.codex/hooks/headsup-codex-resync.sh

If only idle or waiting changed, tell the user the new color will appear on the next matching Codex state.

Do not edit Claude files under ~/.claude.

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 · 25 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A e9bf80878f5e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

headsup-colors is a skill published in the GitHub repository wasulajr/headsup (1 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 189 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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