Your status line has spare rows. Put something alive in them.

Three steps, no account

Try clawd right now

This installs three files under ~/.claude/pixelbar/, points your settings.json at one of them after backing it up, and diagnoses anything that would stop it working. It never uses sudo, never touches anything else, and never phones home. Open the URL in a browser first if you want to read every line it will run — the whole script is there.

Undo it any time: the same line with --uninstall puts back whatever status line you had before. Full installation guide →

What the creature is telling you

Working or idle

While Claude is mid-turn the sprite walks its poses — several steps a second on a busy turn. Eight quiet seconds and it parks on its resting pose.

Context window

The body fills with the gauge colour from the belly up, one pixel row per tenth used. A glance tells you whether you have room for one more big ask.

Uncommitted work

Pixels the skin nominates — a tail, a pair of hands — turn pale while git has uncommitted changes, and settle back when you commit.

Five-hour window

A single column beside the creature fills bottom-up and runs green → amber → red as your rate window is spent. It is separate on purpose: at 100% context the gauge paints every row of the body, so anything drawn there would vanish exactly when you needed it.

Two creatures ship with it

The studio lets you edit your own version of either creature — open it, redraw a pose, swap the colours, rename it, and the install line is yours. Or start from a blank grid, or trace your own from pixel art.

A skin is a sprite crossed with six independent signals, and the only way to know a palette works is to see all of them together — which is exactly what the studio shows you while you draw.