Turn your Claude Code status bar into a retro game. Two themes available: Pac-Man inspired (chase game) and Pikmin Bloom inspired (flower planting trail).

Context window usage drives the character across the board, while rate limit ghosts chase from behind.

• Chase game -- Character position maps to context window usage; ghosts chase proportionally to rate limits
• Ghost room -- The 7-day ghost stays caged in a walled room when usage is under 50%, bouncing left and right
• Chomp animation -- Character toggles between open (ᗧ) and closed (●) mouth on each refresh
• Ghost animation -- Both ghosts alternate legs (ᗩ/ᗣ) in opposite phase
• Cherry at 95% -- A red cherry (ᐝ) marks the auto-compact threshold
• Game over -- When a rate limit hits 100%, the ghost catches the character and GAME OVER appears

A squad walks in place while a flower trail scrolls behind them. Using context plants flowers; idle time leaves footprints.

• Flower planting -- Every 15-minute slot gets a flower if you consumed context, or a dot (·) if idle
• Big flower cycle -- Every 8 slots (~2 hours), a big flower slot (🪻🌻🌷) appears with a seedling (🌱) waiting to bloom
• Pikmin animation -- 🔴🟡🔵 squad alternates order on each refresh
• Fruit on reset -- Rate limit reset times show as fruit (🍎🍊🍋🍇🍓🍑🫐) in future slots
• Rate limit aware -- Rate limit hit prevents flower planting for that slot

• Color-coded warnings -- Remaining percentages: white (safe) / yellow (caution) / red (critical)
• Header info -- Model name, context size, version, and remaining context percentage

bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sorosora/arcade-statusline/main/install.sh)

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sorosora/arcade-statusline/main/install.ps1 | iex

The installer will preview both themes and let you choose interactively. You can also skip the prompt with --theme:

# --theme pacman | pikmin
bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sorosora/arcade-statusline/main/install.sh) --theme pikmin

To change theme later, run the installer again or edit --theme in ~/.claude/settings.json.

mkdir -p ~/.claude && cd ~/.claude
# macOS (Apple Silicon)
curl -fsSL -L https://github.com/sorosora/arcade-statusline/releases/latest/download/arcade-statusline-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz | tar xJ
# macOS (Intel)
curl -fsSL -L https://github.com/sorosora/arcade-statusline/releases/latest/download/arcade-statusline-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz | tar xJ
# Linux (x86_64)
curl -fsSL -L https://github.com/sorosora/arcade-statusline/releases/latest/download/arcade-statusline-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz | tar xJ

chmod +x arcade-statusline

{
  "statusLine": {
    "type": "command",
    "command": "~/.claude/arcade-statusline --theme pacman"
  }
}

JetBrains users: JetBrains terminals render emoji as 1 column instead of 2 (IJPL-106227). The binary auto-detects this and compensates. If the Claude Code buddy overlaps with your statusline, add --buddy-padding:

{
  "statusLine": {
    "type": "command",
    "command": "~/.claude/arcade-statusline --theme pikmin --buddy-padding"
  }
}

git clone https://github.com/sorosora/arcade-statusline.git
cd arcade-statusline
cargo build --release
cp target/release/arcade-statusline ~/.claude/

Claude Code pipes JSON status data to the binary via stdin. The binary maps metrics to game elements and outputs ANSI-colored text.

All percentages displayed are remaining (not used), so you always know how much is left.

The standalone shell/PowerShell statusline scripts (statusline.sh, statusline.ps1) are deprecated. They remain in the repo for reference but are no longer maintained. Use the Rust binary instead.

Requirements: jq (macOS/Linux), PowerShell 7+ (Windows).

macOS / Linux:

rm ~/.claude/arcade-statusline

Windows:

Remove-Item "$env:USERPROFILE\.claude\arcade-statusline.exe"

Then remove the "statusLine" key from ~/.claude/settings.json.

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