avenoxstatusline

A two-line status line for Claude Code with an ASCII pet.

132 lines of bash. No npm, no node, no build step.

ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ☕  Opus 5 · high · think   5h 41% · 7d 63%
▓▓▓▓░░░░ 62%  ⎇ main*  ● serai:vegrun

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Why another one

There are plenty of good Claude Code status lines. Two things make this one different.

1. It's a shell script, not a package

Your status line re-runs every few seconds, forever. Every render is a fresh process. Spawning a Node runtime on that loop is a strange thing to do to your laptop.

This is one bash file with two dependencies you already have (git, jq). Install is a curl and one line of JSON. There is nothing to update, nothing to audit, and nothing in node_modules.

2. The pet is a gauge, not an ornament

The bear's mood is derived from session state, so you can read how the session is doing without reading any numbers:

Peripheral vision does the monitoring. You only look directly at the line when the bear changes.

And when nothing is wrong, it does things. Roughly every 10 seconds it pulls a ~4-second stunt — nap, dance, wave, table flip (and sets the table back), flower, coffee, sparkle, hug, wander.

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The trick: animating a stateless script

Claude Code runs the status line command fresh on every render. There is no process to hold a frame counter in, so conventional animation is impossible.

So the frames are indexed by wall-clock time instead of by state:

T=${SL_TICK:-$(date +%s)}
frame() { local -a a=("${@:2}"); PET="${a[$(( $1 % ${#a[@]} ))]}"; }

frame "$T" "ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ" "ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ" "ʕ-ᴥ-ʔ" "ʕ◕ᴥ◕ʔ"   # idle: blinks

Each render independently computes which frame it is right now. The script stays completely stateless and the pet still walks through its frames as time passes. Stunts use the same idea at two scales: T % 10 picks the position within a stunt, (T / 10) % 9 picks which stunt