Lily
Posted on Jul 18
• Originally published at dev.to
This is part of my "Claude Code environment" series. Last time I wrote about the Codex worktree swarm, a setup that gets Codex and Claude Code collaborating. This time the topic is something far less flashy but that you look at every single turn: customizing the status line.
Claude Code can print a single status line at the bottom of the window. By default it shows little more than the model name. Using the feature that lets you point statusLine.command in settings.json at an arbitrary shell script, I built a version that formats your 5h/7d plan quota, context usage, session cost, and automation health into three lines — and I'll walk through the whole implementation. The nice part is that the quota numbers flow in directly from stdin, so no API calls and no auth are required.
