Avenoxstatusline — Development skill for Claude Code

avenoxstatusline

A two-line status line for [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) with an ASCII pet.

**132 lines of bash. No npm, no node, no build step.**

ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ☕  Opus 5 · high · think   5h 41% · 7d 63%
▓▓▓▓░░░░ 62%  ⎇ main*  ● serai:vegrun

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Why another one

There are plenty of good Claude Code status lines. Two things make this one different.

1. It's a shell script, not a package

Your status line re-runs **every few seconds, forever**. Every render is a fresh process. Spawning a Node runtime on that loop is a strange thing to do to your laptop.

This is one `bash` file with two dependencies you already have (`git`, `jq`). Install is a `curl` and one line of JSON. There is nothing to update, nothing to audit, and nothing in `node_modules`.

2. The pet is a gauge, not an ornament

The bear's mood is **derived from session state**, so you can read how the session is doing without reading any numbers:

State	Pet	Meaning
context ≥ 90%	ʕ⊙ᴥ⊙ʔ‼ red, flailing	you are about to compact
context ≥ 75%	ʕ•﹏•ʔ💦 yellow, sweating	start wrapping up
pending approvals	ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ❗ yellow, alert	something is waiting on you
effort xhigh / max	ʕ◣_◢ʔ⚡ locked in	the expensive gear is engaged
context ≥ 50%	ʕ◔ᴥ◔ʔ focused	working
otherwise	ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ idle	blinks, glances, leans

Peripheral vision does the monitoring. You only look directly at the line when the bear changes.

And when nothing is wrong, it does things. Roughly every 10 seconds it pulls a ~4-second stunt — nap, dance, wave, table flip (and sets the table back), flower, coffee, sparkle, hug, wander.

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The trick: animating a stateless script

Claude Code runs the status line command fresh on every render. There is no process to hold a frame counter in, so conventional animation is impossible.

So the frames are indexed by **wall-clock time** instead of by state:

T=${SL_TICK:-$(date +%s)}
frame() { loca