cc-profiles

Showing the profile in the status line

Claude Code can run a script to draw a status line at the bottom of the terminal. With several profiles, it is useful to see which one you are in.

From the Settings tab

Settings → Status line sets it up without writing anything by hand:

• Made by cc-profiles: tick what to show (path or folder, git branch with * when there are uncommitted changes, profile, account email, model, effort, output style, pull request, context used, session cost, lines changed, session time, 5-hour and weekly limits used, terminal, time), put it in order by dragging or with the arrows, give each piece its brackets (none, ( ), [ ], { } or ⟨ ⟩, or the same for all), pick the separator and whether to use colors, and check the preview. With colors on, each piece has its own color from your terminal’s palette and the context and limits turn yellow at 70% and red at 90%. Show the script shows what will be saved. The script sets LC_ALL=C, so brackets like ⟨ ⟩ survive a shell with a broken locale.
• Your command: any command; cc-profiles saves it and never runs it.
• Off: removes statusLine (the script cc-profiles wrote goes to the backup).

Padding, a refresh interval and hiding the vim mode indicator apply to both. Apply to all… gives every other profile the same status line, each with its own script, in one backup.

The rest of this page is for writing the script yourself.

The label command

cc-profiles label

prints the name of the profile in use. It reads CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR (or ~/.claude when it is not set), looks for the profile with that folder in ~/.cc-profiles/config.json, and prints its label. If the folder is not a known profile, it prints the suffix of the folder name (~/.claude-test → test), or default. It does not start the server and returns immediately.

A minimal status line

~/.claude/statusline.sh:

#!/bin/sh
input=$(cat)                                   # JSON that Claude Code sends on stdin
model=$(printf '%s' "$input" | jq -r '.model.display_name // empty')
profile=$(cc-profiles label 2>/dev/null)
printf '(%s) %s' "$profile" "$model"

and in the profile’s settings.json:

{
  "statusLine": { "type": "command", "command": "sh ~/.claude/statusline.sh" }
}

To use the same script in every profile, share settings.json, or point each profile’s statusLine to the same script. The script finds the right profile by itself, because Claude Code passes CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR down to it.

Without calling cc-profiles

The status line runs often. If you prefer not to start Python each time, read the label straight from the config with jq:

dir=$(cd "${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.claude}" && pwd -P)
profile=$(jq -r --arg d "$dir" --arg h "$HOME" \
  '.profiles[] | select((.dir | sub("^~"; $h)) == $d) | .label' \
  "$HOME/.cc-profiles/config.json" 2>/dev/null | head -1)

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