Skills Band — Development skill for Claude Code

skills-band

A one-row band above the Claude Code prompt that shows which skills this session has used.


Preview of the band in a dark theme: caveman and ponytail active, `seo-audit` loading this turn (spinning), the rest used in earlier turns. Labels take your theme's text color, so a light theme shows dark text.

• Every skill counts: skills typed as /name, loaded through the Skill tool, or preloaded into subagents all show up. Plugin skills show their short name (frontend-design, not frontend-design:frontend-design).
• Active dot: an orange ● in Claude's color marks a skill used this turn. Skills from earlier turns have no dot and are dimmed. The most recent skills come first. ×N counts how many times a skill ran.
• Theme colors: labels use your theme's own text color, so the band stays readable in light and dark themes.
• Pulse: a skill loaded during the current turn spins ◐◓◑◒ while Claude works, then shows ● when the turn ends.
• Mode badges (optional): when the caveman or ponytail plugins are active in this session, they show with an orange dot and their mode (ponytail:ultra). When they stop, or aren't installed, they disappear.

Install

In Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add codehamster69/skills-band
/plugin install skills-band@rohan-mods

Or from a shell:

claude plugin marketplace add codehamster69/skills-band
claude plugin install skills-band@rohan-mods

Restart Claude Code. The band appears above the prompt right away ("no skills used yet") and fills in as skills run. Skills that ran before the restart are not shown.

Using caveman/ponytail?

The band already shows their badges. If you had a `statusLine` in `~/.claude/settings.json` that only showed those badges, you can remove it to avoid seeing them twice.

Update / remove

claude plugin update skills-band@rohan-mods
claude plugin uninstall skills-band@ro