Statusline Sh

statusline.sh

Visual builder for Claude Code statuslines.

statusline.sh is a free, open-source web app for designing the Claude Code statusline — the customizable status bar at the bottom of the Claude Code terminal interface. Drag elements onto a canvas, style them, preview live, then paste a single command to install on macOS, Linux, or Windows.

- Try it: https://statusline.sh
- Guide: How to make a Claude Code statusline
- Community gallery: https://statusline.sh/community

What is this?

Claude Code lets you point its status line at any executable that reads a JSON payload on stdin and writes styled text to stdout. Writing that script by hand means hand-rolling ANSI escape codes and JSON parsing in bash or PowerShell, then editing ~/.claude/settings.json without clobbering everything else in it.

statusline.sh removes that friction. Design a Claude Code statusline visually in the browser, save it, and copy one install command. Your existing settings.json is structurally merged (never string-replaced) and backed up with a timestamp before any change. The status bar you see in the live preview is byte-identical (after stripping ANSI) to what gets installed on disk.

If you have never customized the Claude Code status line before, the walkthrough on statusline.sh covers the JSON payload Claude Code sends, the ANSI styling primitives, and what the editor compiles to.

Features

- Drag-and-drop canvas with 19 element types: model name, working directory (basename / full / tilde), git branch and dirty status, lines added/removed, context percentage, 5h and 7d rate-limit percentages and progress bars, cost, session duration, generic progress bars, segment-split paths, glyphs, rotators, separators, conditional visibility, and static text.
- Full ANSI styling: 16 / 256 /…