Making Claude Code Tell You What It's Doing

Claude Code has a status line that sits at the bottom of the terminal showing things like the current directory, git branch, model, and context window usage. It&rsquo;s driven by a shell script that receives JSON on stdin and prints whatever it wants. I wanted to add one more thing: a short description of what the session is actually working on. The Simple Way: /rename The built-in /rename command…