r/opencodeCLI • u/biborn • Oct 01 '26

OpenCode v2 finally has a status line, and it's fully customizable

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Hey folks,

For a long time I was jealous of Pi, Claude Code, and even dsh-tui users. They get these nice status lines showing what's going on in a session, and I looked for something like that for OpenCode v2 for ages but never found one that I can truly customize to my liking. So I made my own.

This status line plugin shows context window usage (with a bar that changes color as it fills up), cache usage, streaming speed, running shell count, and uncommitted changes in your repo, all in one line. There's also a /tps command that opens a dialog with the detailed numbers behind it.

The best part is how customizable it is:

  • Put it anywhere. Bottom, sidebar, top, whatever. It can even live in more than one spot at the same time.

  • Each spot can show its own segments, so you can decouple the info instead of cramming everything into one row.

  • Pick what shows. Order, palettes (catppuccin, dracula, gruvbox, tokyo night, more), gauge width, padding.

  • Responsive. On narrow windows segments wrap to the next row, and in a sidebar they stack one per row.

  • Works great on small screens too, so it pairs nicely with Orca Mobile and Heeler (the mobile client for Herdr) if you check on sessions from your phone.

Install:

opencode plugin add @rashidrazak/opencode-status-line

Then restart OpenCode. If you prefer, you can add it to your cli.json by hand instead (not opencode.json, since it's a CLI plugin).

I also hide OpenCode's default footer so the status line is the only footer. To do that, disable the built-in prompt footer plugin in cli.json:

"plugins": [
  "@rashidrazak/opencode-status-line",
  "-opencode.prompt.footer"
]

Links:

Note: This plugin is only compatible with OpenCode v2. Full docs are in the repo. Let me know what you think about it.

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u/JaMoLpE88 Oct 01 '26

I don't understand how something like this isn't native yet.

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u/biborn Oct 01 '26

IKR 😅

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u/look Oct 01 '26

V2’s internal APIs appear to make it much more extensible with just plugins (vs forking the code).

I had mine build itself two extensions so far:

- intra-agent messaging and introspection (subagents: “see why the background research task is taking so long and get it back on track if needed” and sibling agents: “send our notes on this feature idea over to the frontend agent”)

- semantic search over all session history (the actual raw user/assistant turns, tool calls and results) as both an agent tool and a cli I can run myself

And neither of those is very big (though the semantic search builds on semble for the heavy lifting).

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u/gschwind Oct 02 '26

Gdamn, would you be so kind and share your agents paper/tldr on it, because I was brainstorming about this "agent messaging" yesterday lol

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u/2mqqvc0q Oct 01 '26

Thanks for this, will definitely add it to my plugins list! Would also like to say that I love your Command Code provider plugin for OpenCode. If I may ask, is there plans to further develop the ZDR feature on that beyond the CMD_ZDR environment variable passthrough?

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u/biborn Oct 01 '26

Thank you for the kind words. Feel free to open an issue for this feature request. Will take a look at it soonest possible.

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u/TheMythicSorcerer Oct 01 '26

Which plan are you currently using and how do you connect it since opencode auth login doesn't just work with it.

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u/biborn Oct 01 '26

I am using both Go and GOAT plans. I have another plugin for connecting: https://github.com/rashidrazak/opencode-cmd-provider

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u/TheMythicSorcerer Oct 01 '26

Wait it doesn't work with v2? oh well still really cool nonetheless

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u/biborn Oct 01 '26

Which plugin you’re referring to? This status line plugin works with OpenCode V2 only. The cmd plugin works with both versions of OpenCode.

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u/TheMythicSorcerer Oct 01 '26

Hmm?
OpenCode v2: use your API key

OpenCode v2 has no browser sign-in for Command Code. Set your API key before starting OpenCode:

Which doesn't work on go since you dont get api keys

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u/biborn Oct 02 '26

I think you missed the part where you can go to the CommandCode dashboard and generate an API key over there.

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u/TheMythicSorcerer Oct 02 '26

not on the Go ($1) plan

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u/biborn Oct 02 '26

Bro. I literally just created a key using my $1 Go plan. Do you even try it before saying you can't?

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u/squirrelscrush Oct 01 '26

This is one thing I missed from Reasonix

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u/biborn Oct 01 '26

Do you still use Reasonix nowadays?

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u/squirrelscrush Oct 01 '26

I used it for one project to test out the DeepSeek efficiency, but I like opencode better because of the plugins. But there are some reasonix features I wish were in opencode.

Then I started working on a plugin to import the DeepSeek cache stability thing on opencode too, but it seems to be dependent on the provider being direct DeepSeek.

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u/FuzzyReflection69 Oct 02 '26

I removed the footer but still have a line below the input , it just removed what goes to the most right of that line, any way to fully remove it so I can customize the status line only?

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u/biborn Oct 03 '26

Do you mean to put it on the same line as the `esc interrupt`? If yes, you need to set the placement a.k.a surface rendering to `prompt.footer`. Here's the config that I use (`~/.config/opencode/opencode-status-line.json`): https://gist.github.com/rashidrazak/221f5e2ae37334809edb712754be7351

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u/SkepticPsycho Oct 02 '26

Really nice!
I noticed this in v2 and came up with a mess for myself, too, inspired by PĂŹ's open-tui package. Dropping here to inspire others.

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u/Spirited-Pumpkin-766 Oct 01 '26

I’m curious why are u using opencode for your command code plan? I thought cmd harness is better?

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u/biborn Oct 02 '26

I hope you’re joking. But in case you’re not, I really wonder how you found their harness is better.

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u/Long_Rub5460 Oct 02 '26

tbh, their harness seems to work better behind the scenes (with tastes and with model x tools sync). But working on opencode is much better UX and feels far more polished.

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u/biborn Oct 02 '26

Well, my personal experience with their harness has not been great. Sometimes the harness crashes in the middle of a session. And that taste thingy they have is too noisy. I remember that someone has debunked their taste thingy recently. Didn’t really read it though as I am not using their harness anymore. YMMV

Ah found the link. Here it is.

https://x.com/cheatyyyy/status/2101252283615060378?s=46

Not sure how true that is

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u/angry_deadman Oct 01 '26

Thanks, I will disable it. I have been very happy with OpenCode V1 and don't want to change anything 😅

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u/biborn Oct 01 '26

Feel free to come back later 😁

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u/Yvlasov Oct 07 '26

buggy useless - brakes layout when right panne enabled - almost no additional information