Statusline Generator

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name: statusline-generator description: Configures and customizes Claude Code statuslines with multi-line layouts, cost tracking via ccusage, git status indicators, and customizable colors. Activates for statusline setup, installation, configuration, customization, color changes, cost display, git status integration, or troubleshooting statusline issues.

Statusline Generator

Overview

This skill provides tools and guidance for creating and customizing Claude Code statuslines. It generates multi-line statuslines optimized for portrait screens, integrates with

ccusage

for session/daily cost tracking, displays git branch status, and supports color customization.

When to Use This Skill

This skill activates for:

• Statusline configuration requests for Claude Code
• Cost information display (session/daily costs)
• Multi-line layouts for portrait or narrow screens
• Statusline color or format customization
• Statusline display or cost tracking issues
• Git status or path

Code Examples

README.md

# Skill Demonstrations

This directory contains automated demonstrations of each skill using [VHS (Video Home System)](https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs) by Charmbracelet.

VHS allows you to write terminal recordings as code, making demos reproducible, version-controllable, and typo-free.

## 📁 Demo Structure

demos/ ├── skill-creator/ │ ├── init-skill.tape # Initialize a new skill │ ├── validate-skill.tape # Validate skill quality │ └── package-skill.tape # Package for distribution ├── github-ops/ │ └── create-pr.tape # Create pull requests ├── markdown-tools/ │ └── convert-docs.tape # Convert documents └── generate_all_demos.sh # Generate all GIFs

## 🎬 Generating Demos

### Prerequisites

Install VHS:

**macOS:**
```bash
brew install vhs

Linux (with Go):

go install github.com/charmbracelet/vhs@latest

Or download from: https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs/releases

Generate All Demos

### generate_all_demos.sh

#!/bin/bash set -e

echo "================================================" echo "Generating Claude Code Skills Demo GIFs" echo "================================================" echo ""

Colors for output

GREEN='\033[0;32m' YELLOW='\033[1;33m' RED='\033[0;31m' NC='\033[0m' # No Color

Check if VHS is installed

if ! command -v vhs &> /dev/null; then echo -e "${RED}Error: VHS is not installed!${NC}" echo "" echo "Install VHS to generate demo GIFs:" echo "" echo "macOS:" echo " brew install vhs" echo "" echo "Linux (with Go):" echo " go install github.com/charmbracelet/vhs@latest" echo "" echo "Or download from: https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs/releases" echo "" exit 1 fi

echo -e "${GREEN}✓ VHS found${NC}" echo ""

Find all .tape files

TAPE_FILES=$(find demos -name "*.tape" -type f | sort) TOTAL=$(echo "$TAPE_FILES" | wc -l | tr -d ' ') CURRENT=0

echo "Found $TOTAL demo tape files" echo ""

Generate each demo

for tape_fi

### index.html