haiku-statusline

Status Line

H·AI·K·U ships a custom Claude Code status line that shows, at a glance, where the active intent is in its lifecycle:

⬢ admin-portal-reimagine · ⬢⬢⬢⬣⬡⬡ development ❯ execute · 7/12 units

• ⬢ brand mark · then the intent slug
• the stage pipeline: ⬢ complete · ⬣ active (phase-hued) · ⬡ pending
• the active stage, a flow mark (❯ running · ⊘ gated), and the phase (color-coded: execute=cyan, fix-loop=orange, review/approve=yellow, gate=magenta, elaborate=grey)
• a phase-appropriate aggregate: units done in execute, findings closed in fix-loop, units in review/approve/gate

When you're not on an active intent (no .haiku/, the intent is sealed, or you're outside a project), it transparently falls back to whatever status line you had before — it's purely additive.

Install

Run the install command from the project (or pass --global to wire ~/.claude/settings.json):

haiku statusline install

This points Claude Code's statusLine at haiku statusline and saves your existing status line as the fallback (in .haiku/statusline-fallback.json, or ~/.haiku/ for --global). The status line refreshes on the next prompt.

• Default (no flag): wires the project .claude/settings.json.
• --global: wires the user-level ~/.claude/settings.json so the haiku line shows in every project (and falls back to your original line outside intents).

Remove

haiku statusline uninstall

Restores the original status line you had before install (or removes the statusLine key entirely if you had none). Add --global if you installed globally.

Preview

To see the line for the current project without installing, feed the status-line payload to the render command:

echo "{\"workspace\":{\"current_dir\":\"$PWD\"}}" | haiku statusline

Set NO_COLOR=1 for a plain (no-ANSI) line; set HAIKU_STATUSLINE_DEBUG=1 to print on stderr why it rendered nothing (no .haiku/, sealed intent, etc.).

Guardrails

• The status-line command stays silent on any error — a status line that errored would spam the prompt — so if nothing appears, run the preview with HAIKU_STATUSLINE_DEBUG=1 to see the reason.
• Install only edits the statusLine key; every other setting in .claude/settings.json is preserved.
• Outside an active intent the line falls through to whatever Claude Code would otherwise show. It reconstructs that by walking the settings files in Claude's own precedence order (project .claude/settings.local.json → project .claude/settings.json → ~/.claude/settings.json) and, at whichever file haiku installed itself into, substituting the original line saved at install. So a status line you keep in a settings file haiku never touched (e.g. a project line when haiku is installed globally) still wins — the saved fallback record is only the last resort.
• The command Claude Code invokes depends on how the plugin is installed: a production (marketplace / npm) install writes npx -y @haiku/haiku statusline so it survives plugin updates with no path to rot; a dev checkout writes the absolute path to the bin dispatcher (npx can't resolve an unpublished local package). Claude Code runs the status-line command without the plugin bin on PATH, so neither form relies on PATH.