A status.claude.com health indicator for your Claude Code statusline. Monitors API health and shows it as a colored face — so Claude can tell you how it's feeling before you ask.

All systems operational — green [^_^]

All operational

Degraded performance — yellow [*_*] with warning text

Degraded status

 kaomoji (default) ascii minimal
 ───────────────── ───── ───────
 [^_^] all good :) all good OK all good
 [*_*] degraded :| degraded !! degraded
 [>_<] major outage :( outage XX outage
 [x_x] critical X( critical XX critical
 [?_?] unknown :? unknown -- unknown

 Green [^_^] All systems operational
 Yellow [*_*] not feeling great
 Red [>_<] check status.claude.com
 Bold Red [x_x] API is down
 Grey [?_?] No data yet

Faces are clickable links to status.claude.com in supported terminals (iTerm2, WezTerm, Kitty, Windows Terminal, ConEmu) via OSC 8 hyperlinks.

• Polls status.claude.com API every 60 seconds with synchronous fetch (~100ms)
• UserPromptSubmit hook warns when API is degraded or down
• Configurable segments: model, git branch, diff stats, context bar, status face, rate limit, cost
• Three face styles: kaomoji, ascii, minimal
• Auto-detects subscriber (shows rate limit %) vs API user (shows session cost)
• Interactive /statusline skill for toggling segments
• Zero extra dependencies — only curl and node (both already available with Claude Code)

git clone https://github.com/Jamespptsr/CWTY.git
cd CWTY
# Extend your existing statusline (recommended)
bash scripts/install.sh --extend
# Or use as standalone statusline
bash scripts/install.sh --standalone
# Uninstall and restore original statusline
bash scripts/install.sh --uninstall

• curl (built-in on macOS/Linux/Git Bash)
• node (comes with Claude Code — if you can run Claude Code, you already have it)

CWTY works on Windows via WSL2 (recommended) or Git Bash:

git clone https://github.com/Jamespptsr/CWTY.git
cd CWTY
bash scripts/install.sh --extend

Clickable face links work in Windows Terminal (detected via WT_SESSION env var) and ConEmu/Cmder (detected via ConEmuPID).

Edit ~/.claude/statusline.conf or use the /statusline command inside Claude Code:

# Toggle segments: 1 = show, 0 = hide
SHOW_MODEL=1
SHOW_GIT_BRANCH=1
SHOW_GIT_DIFF=0
SHOW_CONTEXT_BAR=1
SHOW_STATUS_FACE=1
SHOW_COST=0
SHOW_RATE_LIMIT=1
# Face style: kaomoji | ascii | minimal
FACE_STYLE=kaomoji

1. Statusline script reads JSON from Claude Code on stdin (model, context, rate limits)
2. Checks ~/.cache/claude-status-light/status.json — fetches fresh data if stale (>60s)
3. Renders colored face segment based on API status indicator
4. hooks/status-warning.sh fires on UserPromptSubmit, injects context warning if API is degraded

status.claude.com/api/v2/status.json
 │
 ▼
 ┌───────────┐ ┌──────────────┐ ┌────────────┐
 │ curl fetch │────▶│ cache (JSON) │────▶│ render face │
 │ 2s timeout│ │ 60s TTL │ │ + ANSI color│
 └───────────┘ └──────────────┘ └────────────┘

Cache location: ~/.cache/claude-status-light/status.json

# Fetch status and show the face
bash lib/fetch-status.sh
bash bin/claude-status-light
echo # newline
# Test the hook (pipe empty JSON)
echo '{}' | bash hooks/status-warning.sh

MIT