claude-powerline v1.20 adds TUI dashboard mode, context bar styles, and environment variable display

claude-powerline v1.20 release

claude-powerline is a vim-style statusline for Claude Code that provides real-time visibility into your session. It's free, open source, and requires zero dependencies with 6 built-in themes.

Setup

Add to ~/.claude/settings.json:

{ "statusLine": { "type": "command", "command": "npx -y @owloops/claude-powerline@latest --style=tui" } }

For best display, use a Nerd Font or add --charset=text for ASCII-only symbols.

TUI Dashboard Mode

The major addition in v1.20 replaces the single statusline with a full box-drawing panel below your prompt. It displays:

• Model information
• Context usage with progress bar
• Session and daily costs
• Subagent costs
• Git branch with working tree counts (+staged ~unstaged ?untracked)
• Fish-style directory
• Version
• Burn rate
• Response time
• Message count

The dashboard is responsive to terminal width.

Context Bar Styles

Nine visual progress bar styles for the context segment: blocks, blocks-line, ball, capped, dots, filled, geometric, line, and squares. Also includes bar (custom symbols) and text-only mode. Color-coded by usage percentage to indicate when you're running low. Configurable to show remaining vs used percentage.

Environment Variables Segment

Display any environment variable in your statusline. Useful for showing NODE_ENV, AWS_PROFILE, or other workflow-relevant variables.

Other Improvements

• Native context_window data from Claude Code (no more estimation)
• Autocompact buffer is now configurable
• Git worktree detection fixes
• Subagent token tracking in usage calculations
• Both --arg=value and --arg value CLI syntax
• Provider model IDs parsed to friendly display names

Links

GitHub: https://github.com/Owloops/claude-powerline

npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@owloops/claude-powerline