hud-statusline

HUD / Statusline Integration

Guidance for commands and agents to update Claude Code's statusline with real-time Unity workflow state.

Statusline Format

The recommended statusline format for Unity workflows:

[Phase: Execute] [Agent: unity-coder] [Modified: 5 files] [12m]

Fields:

• Phase — current workflow phase: Clarify, Plan, Execute, Verify, Done
• Agent — currently active sub-agent (or "main" if no agent is running)
• Modified — count of unique files edited this session (from session-edits.txt)
• Duration — elapsed session time in minutes

Reading Session State

Statusline data comes from the hook state directory at /tmp/unity-claude-hooks/:

| File | Content | Updated By | |------|---------|-----------| | session-edits.txt | One file path per line (may have duplicates) | track-edits.sh | | gateguard-reads.txt | One file path per line | track-reads.sh | | session-state.json | Branch, phase, workflow context | session-save.sh | | session-start-time | Unix timestamp | session-restore.sh | | session-cost.jsonl | One JSON object per tool call | cost-tracker.sh |

File Count

EDIT_COUNT=0
if [ -f "/tmp/unity-claude-hooks/session-edits.txt" ]; then
    EDIT_COUNT=$(sort -u "/tmp/unity-claude-hooks/session-edits.txt" | wc -l | tr -d ' ')
fi

Session Duration

DURATION_MINS=0
if [ -f "/tmp/unity-claude-hooks/session-start-time" ]; then
    START=$(cat "/tmp/unity-claude-hooks/session-start-time")
    NOW=$(date +%s)
    DURATION_MINS=$(( (NOW - START) / 60 ))
fi

Integration Points

Commands

Commands with phase gates (like /unity-workflow) should update the statusline at each transition:

Phase 1: Clarify  → statusline: [Phase: Clarify]
Phase 2: Plan     → statusline: [Phase: Plan]
Phase 3: Execute  → statusline: [Phase: Execute] [Agent: unity-coder]
Phase 4: Verify   → statusline: [Phase: Verify] [Agent: unity-verifier]
Done              → statusline: [Phase: Done] [Modified: N files] [Xm]

Agents

When a command spawns a sub-agent, the statusline should reflect which agent is active. The agent field updates when:

• A new Agent tool call is made
• The agent completes and returns control to the command

Ralph Mode

During /unity-ralph, the statusline should show iteration progress:

[Ralph: 3/10] [Agent: unity-verifier] [Fixed: 5] [12m]

Team Mode

During /unity-team, the statusline should show parallel agent status:

[Team: build] [Agents: 3 running] [Modified: 8 files] [5m]

Cost Tracking Display

If the cost tracker is active (strict profile), the statusline can optionally show token usage:

[Phase: Execute] [Modified: 5 files] [12m] [Calls: 47]

Read from session-cost.jsonl:

CALL_COUNT=0
if [ -f "/tmp/unity-claude-hooks/session-cost.jsonl" ]; then
    CALL_COUNT=$(wc -l < "/tmp/unity-claude-hooks/session-cost.jsonl" | tr -d ' ')
fi