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claude-statusbar

Manage `cs` (claude-statusbar) — switch theme/style/density, override severity colors, preview combinations, run doctor, reset config, install, upgrade (`cs upgrade` — the only supported upgrade path), or remove the bar, toggle fast/daemon mode, show cost or prompt-cache age, toggle the AgentParty/Codex bridge line, or toggle the activity segments (todos, active tool, running subagents, session duration, lines changed, git ahead/behind). Use whenever the user mentions cs, claude-statusbar, stat…

First seen May 8, 2026

Installation

$ npx skills add leeguooooo/claude-code-usage-bar --skill claude-statusbar

Summary

  • Manage `cs` (claude-statusbar) — switch theme/style/density, override severity colors, preview combinations, run doctor, reset config, install, upgrade (`cs upgrade` — the only supported upgrade path), or remove the bar, toggle fast/daemon mode, show cost or prompt-cache age, toggle the AgentParty/Codex bridge line, or toggle the activity segments (todos, active tool, running subagents, session duration, lines changed, git ahead/behind).
  • Use whenever the user mentions cs, claude-statusbar, status bar, status line, 状态栏, AgentParty, Codex, show_party, 主题, theme switching, style switching, color customization, 余量颜色, 警告颜色, severity color, /statusbar, cs preview, cs doctor, fast mode, daemon, refreshInterval, 5h/7d window, context window display, prompt cache, todos / ??

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SKILL.md

claude-statusbar control skill

Use this skill any time the user wants to inspect, change, customize, or diagnose the cs status bar. Replaces the older individual slash commands (/statusbar, /statusbar-theme, /statusbar-style, /statusbar-preview, /statusbar-doctor, /statusbar-reset) — they still work but this skill covers all of them with conversational intent.

Decision tree

Match the user's intent to the right cs command. Run it via Bash, then give a short confirmation (one line, no lecture).

User intent Command
Inspect current config cs config show
List themes cs themes
List styles cs styles
Switch theme to <name> cs config set theme <name>
Switch style to <name> cs config set style <name>
Change density `cs config set density <compact\ regular\ cozy>`
Show all 27 combinations cs preview
Filter preview to one style/theme cs preview --style <s> or cs preview --theme <t>
Diagnose problem cs doctor
Return one key to its default cs config unset <key> (the config stores only what you changed)
Wipe config cs config reset
Install / first-time setup cs --setup
Upgrade / update to latest version cs upgrade — NEVER guess uv tool install / pip install -U / pipx upgrade: it detects the install channel that is actually running cs and picks the right one (many users don't have uv at all)
Turn auto-upgrade off cs config set autoupgrade false (default true — a detached once-a-day check upgrades every install channel, binaries included; CLAUDESTATUSBARNOUPDATE=1 also wins)
Enable fast mode (daemon) cs --setup --fast
Disable fast mode cs daemon stop then re-run cs --setup
Toggle session cost display `cs config set show_cost true\ false`
Toggle prompt-cache countdown `cs config set showcacheage true\ false`
Toggle project + branch 2nd line `cs config set showprojectbranch true\ false (default true`)
Toggle AgentParty/Codex bridge line `cs config set show_party true\ false (default true`)
Toggle todo progress (▸ task 3/7, 3rd line) `cs config set show_todos true\ false (default true`)
Toggle active-tool indicator (3rd line) `cs config set show_tools true\ false`
Toggle completed-tool rollup ✓ name×N (3rd line) `cs config set showtoolrollup true\ false` (default off — volume tally)
Toggle running-subagent bottom line(s) `cs config set show_agents true\ false` (default off — Claude Code shows background agents natively)
Toggle session duration (on identity line) `cs config set show_duration true\ false`
Toggle lines added/removed +/- (on identity line) `cs config set show_lines true\ false`
Toggle git ahead/behind ↑↓ (on identity line) `cs config set showaheadbehind true\ false`
Toggle the bar_shimmer twinkling starfield (experimental, classic only) `cs config set bar_shimmer true\ false` (default off)
Toggle the rate-limit forecast (→NN% projected use / ⚠eta warning) `cs config set show_forecast true\ false` (default on)
Toggle the faint version + update hint at the identity-line end (· vX.Y.Z ↑new) `cs config set show_version true\ false` (default on)
Toggle the ⚙ session-mode line (effort/thinking/fast/output-style) `cs config set show_mode true\ false` (default on)
Toggle the per-effort colour gradient on the mode line `cs config set mode_gradient true\ false` (default on)
Hide weekly bar cs config set show_weekly false
Set warning threshold cs config set warning_threshold <0-100>
Set critical threshold cs config set critical_threshold <0-100>
Auto-collapse to hairline below width cs config set autocompactwidth <px>
Force / disable no-quota (API) mode `cs config set api_mode <auto\ on\ off>`
Show working directory `cs config set show_cwd true\ false + cs config set cwd_style <basename\ full>`
Relay balance fuel gauge `cs config set show_balance true\ false + cs config set balance_bar true\ false` (no-quota mode only; auto-hidden when the relay has no balance API)
Exit-IP purity segment `cs config set showiprisk true\ false`
Relay fingerprint-risk watermark `cs config set showfprisk true\ false`
Window-end projection →NN% `cs config set show_projection true\ false`
Worktree marker glyph cs config set worktree_glyph 🌲 (default ; any 1-2 cell symbol — an emoji ignores the theme color, the emoji font decides it)
Worktree marker color cs config set color_worktree "#bd93f9" (empty string restores the theme's hue)

No-quota mode (third-party relay / Bedrock / Vertex)

When Claude Code points at a third-party relay (ANTHROPICBASEURLapi.anthropic.com) or a cloud backend (CLAUDECODEUSEBEDROCK / CLAUDECODEUSEVERTEX), the official 5h/7d quota doesn't exist. cs detects this and switches to a no-quota layout: the two quota battery bars are dropped and the context window is promoted to its own ctx[…] battery bar (green→yellow→red on 70/85% used), followed by the model name + the usual live-activity tail. This mirrors claude-hud's behavior and is what to reach for when a user says "用 API 就没状态了 / 连上下文都没了".

  • Detection is automatic (api_mode = auto, the default). A transcript-based

heuristic also catches relays whose env var didn't reach the statusLine subprocess (an assistant turn exists yet quota never arrived → no-quota).

  • Force it on a setup where auto-detect misses: cs config set api_mode on

(or per-shell CSAPIMODE=on). Force the official layout back with apimode off. CSAPI_MODE env wins over the saved config.

  • Works under both the inline and fast-mode (daemon) render paths.

AgentParty / Codex bridge line

Claude Code support is the full native statusLine integration configured by cs --setup. Codex support is narrower: when AgentParty writes ~/.agentparty/state/<workspaceId>/statusline.json for the current workspace, cs appends a local-only line with channel, human/agent identity, listener mode, unread count, and last-message preview.

Use cs config set show_party false to hide it. This bridge never calls the AgentParty CLI, reads tokens, or makes network requests.

Per-severity color overrides (v3.4.1+)

The user can override the three severity colors independently of theme:

cs config set color_ok   "#4ec85b"   # calm / safe
cs config set color_warn "#e8b260"   # warning
cs config set color_hot  "#e87474"   # critical

cs config set color_ok ""            # clear back to theme default

Accepts #rrggbb, #rgb, or bare rrggbb. The override layers on top of whatever theme is active — no need to switch theme just to tune one color.

When user says "make 余量颜色 / safe color / green sharper", "warning 偏淡", "critical too red" — go to the override, not the theme.

Vibe → theme suggestion

If the user describes a vibe instead of naming a theme, suggest one and ask before switching:

Vibe / context Theme
Muted, professional, dark terminal graphite (default)
Soft, warm, dark twilight
Classic dev / Nord-inspired nord
High contrast, vivid dracula
Warm, cute, light bg sakura
Light terminal linen
Pure grayscale / no color mono
Popular pastel, easy on long viewing catppuccin-mocha
Deeper neon-blue mood tokyo-night

Render anatomy (so you can explain what you're changing)

5h[██16% ░░░]⏰2h27m | 7d[██32%  ░░]⏰4d05h | Opus 4.7(280k/1M) | $ 1.42 | cache 4m23s
└─ 5h ─────┘└──5h──┘  └─ 7d ──┘ └─7d─┘   └────context───────┘  └cost┘  └─cache─┘

Every numeric segment colors itself by its own severity (since v3.4):

  • 5h → theme.s* chosen from msgspct
  • 7d → theme.s* chosen from weeklypct
  • model+context → theme.s* chosen from ctxused_pct (None → neutral)
  • cache → its own string-age severity (COLD → red, <1m → yellow, else green)
  • [ ], ( ), | theme.mute (recede behind data)

Common diagnostic flows

"Status bar isn't showing"cs doctor. It self-checks:

  • Claude Code's ~/.claude/settings.json has the statusLine block
  • the cs binary is on PATH
  • whether the daemon is alive (if fast-mode configured)
  • whether the cache files are stale

"refreshInterval too high"cs doctor will recommend cs --setup --fast when it sees refreshInterval ≤ 2s on the inline command. Fast mode drops 1Hz CPU from ~6% to ~2%.

"Color won't change after cs config set theme X" → check the user isn't on a Claude Code session that read settings.json at start. Ask them to send a new prompt; the next render picks up the new theme.

"Codex / AgentParty name isn't showing" → confirm AgentParty has written ~/.agentparty/state/<workspaceId>/statusline.json for the current cwd and that show_party is still true.

Don't

  • Don't lecture about ANSI codes or terminal compatibility unless asked.
  • Don't suggest editing ~/.claude/claude-statusbar.json by hand. Use

cs config set <key> <value>.

  • Don't change theme just to fix one color — use `colorok / colorwarn /

color_hot` overrides.

  • Don't run destructive commands (cs config reset, cs daemon stop)

without confirming with the user.

Style of response

Be terse. Run the command, paste the one-line confirmation, point at the next step if relevant. The status bar is on screen — they can see the result immediately, no need to describe it.