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task-line

One clean line per task list above the prompt, filled from Claude's own todo tools, same look in the terminal and the desktop app

Code you can checkTerminal + desktopBandBoxButtonText
draws

What it does

  • Draws a band above the prompt
  • Adds /task-line
  • Watches TodoWrite, TaskCreate, TaskUpdate, Bash calls and can refuse them
  • Hooks session.start

Good points

  • No network calls
  • Starts no processes
  • Written in TypeScript
  • Has a desktop-specific branch

Code to start from

A starter ModsCode writes from the drawing it read, and the mod's own lines that draw, where there are any.

Starter (register.tsx)

register.tsx
import type { Register } from 'claude-code'

// Drawn like task-line by Patrick Müller (band), as ModsCode read it from the mod's code:
// https://modscode.com/claude-mods/mods/muellerei-task-line/
// Written by ModsCode from that reading, not copied from the mod: use it as you like.
// Each value below stands for one the mod works out at run time; put in your own.
export const register: Register = on => {
  // the band above the prompt; what else goes there is drawn under it
  on('ui.render', { component: 'AbovePrompt' }, async ($, e, next) => {
    const { Box, Text, Button } = $.ui.resolve(e)
    const glyph = '…'
    const label = '…'
    const done = '…'
    const total = '…'
    const percent = '…'
    const note = '…'
    const glyph2 = '…'
    const label2 = '…'
    const note2 = '…'
    const glyph3 = '…'
    const label3 = '…'
    const note3 = '…'
    return (
      <Box flexDirection="column">
        <Box flexDirection="column" paddingX={1}>
          <Box flexDirection="row" gap={1}>
            <Text>
              {glyph}
            </Text>
            <Box flexShrink={0}>
              <Text wrap="truncate">
                {label}
              </Text>
            </Box>
            <Box flexShrink={0}>
              <Box flexShrink={0}>
                <Text>
                  {"        "}
                </Text>
              </Box>
              <Box flexShrink={0} backgroundColor="userMessageBackground">
                <Text>
                  {"        "}
                </Text>
              </Box>
            </Box>
            <Text>
              {`${done}/${total}`}
            </Text>
            <Text dimColor>
              {`${percent}%`}
            </Text>
            <Text bold>
              {note}
            </Text>
            <Button label="×" plain dimColor />
          </Box>
          <Box flexDirection="row" gap={1}>
            <Text>
              {glyph2}
            </Text>
            <Box flexShrink={0}>
              <Text wrap="truncate">
                {label2}
              </Text>
            </Box>
            <Box flexShrink={0}>
              <Box flexShrink={0}>
                <Text>
                  {"        "}
                </Text>
              </Box>
              <Box flexShrink={0} backgroundColor="userMessageBackground">
                <Text>
                  {"        "}
                </Text>
              </Box>
            </Box>
            <Text>
              {`${done}/${total}`}
            </Text>
            <Text dimColor>
              {`${percent}%`}
            </Text>
            <Text bold>
              {note2}
            </Text>
            <Button label="×" plain dimColor />
          </Box>
          <Box flexDirection="row" gap={1}>
            <Text>
              {glyph3}
            </Text>
            <Box flexShrink={0}>
              <Text wrap="truncate">
                {label3}
              </Text>
            </Box>
            <Box flexShrink={0}>
              <Box flexShrink={0}>
                <Text>
                  {"        "}
                </Text>
              </Box>
              <Box flexShrink={0} backgroundColor="userMessageBackground">
                <Text>
                  {"        "}
                </Text>
              </Box>
            </Box>
            <Text>
              {`${done}/${total}`}
            </Text>
            <Text dimColor>
              {`${percent}%`}
            </Text>
            <Text bold>
              {note3}
            </Text>
            <Button label="×" plain dimColor />
          </Box>
        </Box>
        {await next(e)}
      </Box>
    )
  })
}

The mod's own code

Shown under the mod's licence (MIT); its text is below. Keep the notice if you copy these lines.

hooks/register.tsx lines 319–331 · Band
  on('ui.render', { component: 'AbovePrompt' }, async ($, e, next) => {
    const below = await next(e)
    if (e.props.hasSurvey) return below
    const line = await safely($, 'AbovePrompt', () => lineOf($, e as RenderInput, e.props.bodyColumns || DEFAULT_COLUMNS, timing))
    if (!line) return below
    const { Box } = $.ui.resolve(e)
    return (
      <Box flexDirection="column">
        {below}
        {line}
      </Box>
    )
  })
hooks/register.tsx lines 101–195 · Band
async function lineOf($: Engine, e: RenderInput, columns: number, timing: Timing, isPlain = false) {
  if (await read($, isOff)) return null
  // A finished list is judged by its age, not by a timer alone: a reload of this module drops timers, the state stays.
  const now = await $.clock.now()
  const age = (l: TaskList) => (typeof l.doneAt === 'number' && Number.isFinite(l.doneAt) ? now - l.doneAt : 0)
  // Above the question dialog only the newest list is drawn. With two rows Claude Code refuses the tree and draws no line at all (its
  // debug log: "more than 12 rows around the dialog"); one row passes. Found by hand, the limit is not documented.
  const shown = (await read($, lists))
    .filter(l => !l.isHidden && l.tasks.length > 0 && (l.doneAt === null || age(l) < timing.lingerMs))
    .slice(isPlain ? -1 : -MAX_LISTS)
  if (shown.length === 0) return null
  // A render may not write state: the hide runs just after, once the wait is over.
  for (const l of shown) if (l.doneAt !== null && Number.isFinite(l.doneAt)) hideLater($, l.name, l.doneAt, timing.lingerMs - age(l))

  const asking = (await read($, questions)) > 0
  const failed = await read($, failure)
  // Only the newest list is the one Claude is working on.
  const rows = shown.map((l, i) => rowOf(l, asking && i === shown.length - 1, i === shown.length - 1 ? failed : null))
  // A button needs a click: the desktop app and a fullscreen terminal have one, a terminal band does not.
  const canClick = e.surface !== 'terminal' || e.viewport?.isFullscreen === true
  const { label: labelWidth, bar: barWidth, showNote } = layout(rows, columns, canClick && !isPlain)
  const visible = showNote ? rows : rows.map(r => ({ ...r, note: null }))
  const { Box, Button, Text } = $.ui.resolve(e)
  const dismiss = (name: string) => () => safely($, 'dismiss', () => update($, lists, all => all.map(l => (l.name === name ? { ...l, isHidden: true } : l))))

  // The bar. A terminal draws characters. The desktop app draws a box-drawing character wider than a cell, so a bar of them wrapped into
  // a second line there (found by hand; `overflow` and `height` do not clip it): it draws two boxes with a width in cells and a background.
  const isDesktop = e.surface === 'desktop'
  const barOf = (r: Row, filled: number) =>
    !isDesktop ? (
      <Box key="bar">
        <Text color={r.color}>{'━'.repeat(filled)}</Text>
        <Text dimColor>{'─'.repeat(barWidth - filled)}</Text>
      </Box>
    ) : (
      <Box key="bar" width={barWidth} flexShrink={0}>
        <Box width={filled} flexShrink={0} backgroundColor={r.color}>
          <Text>{NBSP.repeat(filled)}</Text>
        </Box>
        <Box width={barWidth - filled} flexShrink={0} backgroundColor={TRACK_COLOR}>
          <Text>{NBSP.repeat(barWidth - filled)}</Text>
        </Box>
      </Box>
    )

  // Around the question dialog the engine refuses layout props such as width: spaces do the aligning there.
  if (isPlain) {
    return (
      <Box flexDirection="column">
        {visible.map(r => {
          const { filled, percent } = progressOf(r.done, r.total, barWidth)
          return (
            <Box key={`row:${r.name}`} flexDirection="row">
              <Text color={r.color}>{` ${r.glyph} `}</Text>
              <Text>{`${fit(r.label, labelWidth)} `}</Text>
              {barOf(r, filled)}
              <Text>{` ${r.done}/${r.total}`}</Text>
              <Text dimColor>{` ${`${percent}%`.padStart(PERCENT_WIDTH)}`}</Text>
              {r.note && (
                <Text color={r.color} bold>
                  {` ${r.note}`}
                </Text>
              )}
            </Box>
          )
        })}
      </Box>
    )
  }

  return (
    <Box flexDirection="column" paddingX={1}>
      {visible.map(r => {
        const { filled, percent } = progressOf(r.done, r.total, barWidth)
        return (
          <Box key={`row:${r.name}`} flexDirection="row" gap={1}>
            <Text color={r.color}>{r.glyph}</Text>
            <Box key="label" width={labelWidth} flexShrink={0}>
              <Text wrap="truncate">{r.label}</Text>
            </Box>
            {barOf(r, filled)}
            <Text>{`${r.done}/${r.total}`}</Text>
            <Text dimColor>{`${percent}%`.padStart(PERCENT_WIDTH)}</Text>
            {r.note && (
              <Text color={r.color} bold>
                {r.note}
              </Text>
            )}
            {canClick && <Button key={`dismiss:${r.name}`} label="×" plain dimColor onPress={dismiss(r.name)} />}
          </Box>
        )
      })}
    </Box>
  )
}
Licence text (MIT)
MIT License

Copyright (c) 2026 Patrick Müller

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

How to build this: Band above the prompt, Deny a tool call

What its code calls

tool callscalls tools

What its code shows

Read from the source at commit eac21f136e2e on 2026-10-11. The first group decides whether a mod is listed; the rest is for you to weigh. A later commit is not read until the next crawl.

Decides the listing: code you can check
Entry readEvery module hooks/hooks.json names was read.hooks/register.tsx
ParsesEvery file parses as TypeScript or JavaScript.7 files parsed
All its code is in the modEvery import is a file of the mod or the engine's own module; no packages, no require.all its code is in the mod
ReadableNo minified lines, no eval or new Function, no import of a computed path, no encoded blobs.no minified code, no eval, no encoded blobs
Calls in the openNetwork and programs are reached as $.http.fetch and $.process.run in place, never passed around.every call outside goes through $ in the open
For you to weigh before installing
Where it drawsThe terminal, the desktop app, both, or nothing (hooks only: a guard or a prompt rewriter), as its code says. Shown, never a reason to leave a mod out.draws in the terminal and the desktop app, with its own branch for the desktop
Install lineWhether its repository's own .claude-plugin/marketplace.json lists it, so it installs from that marketplace with the lines on its page.listed in its repository's .claude-plugin/marketplace.json: installs from there
Programs on WindowsWhether every program it starts through $.process exists on Windows (tail, date, open, osascript, /usr/… do not).runs no program a Windows PC lacks
NetworkWhether every fetch names its https host in the code.no network
ProgramsWhether every program it starts is named in the code and is not a shell, an interpreter or a network tool.starts no programs
Reads and sendsWhether it both reads something of yours (files, environment variables, the transcript, settings) and reaches outside (the network, an MCP server, another session, telemetry).reaches nothing outside
Keys in the sourceWhether the source holds what looks like an API key or a private key.no keys in the source
LicenceAn open licence (MIT, Apache-2.0, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, 0BSD, CC0) with its text lets ModsCode show its code; otherwise the code is linked.MIT
Settings hooksHooks declared in hooks/hooks.json or plugin.json beside the module: a command (a shell when it has no args), an HTTP request, an MCP tool or a model prompt at an event. They run outside $.no settings hooks: its function hooks alone
Servers it shipsMCP servers (a program, or a URL; a headersHelper is a shell command; a .mcpb bundle is unpacked at run time), LSP servers, monitors (a shell command for the whole session) and bin/ (on the PATH of the Bash tool).ships no MCP or LSP server, no monitor, no bin/
Skills, commands, agentsWhat its Markdown declares beyond text: allowed-tools granted for the turn, hooks added when a skill is invoked, a command run before Claude reads the skill.no skills, commands, agents or workflows
Tools and MCPWhether every tool it calls through $.tool.call and $.mcp.call is named in the code, and none is a shell (Bash through the tool runs a shell without $.process).hooks/test-support.tsx:18 a tool named at run time; command.run: /?
Asks of the modelCompletions it runs ($.model.complete, fork, classify), subagents it spawns, prompts it submits as you, and the tools, commands and agents it adds.adds command task-line
Events it hooksBy what a hook there can do: gates (refuse a tool call, a prompt, a setting, another plugin), shapes (what the model reads: the system prompt, tool descriptions, each request), reads (your input, the events of the settings hooks, every event with *), and the rest.gates: tool.call (TodoWrite, TaskCreate, TaskUpdate (+3)), command.run (task-line) · also: session.start, ui.render (AbovePrompt, AskUserQuestion) · timers: clock.after
Reads, by nameThe environment variables and files it names, and whether it reads the transcript, settings.json, the prompt box or the mouse selection.reads no files, environment variables, settings or transcript
Writes, by nameThe files and environment variables it names, and whether it changes settings, the prompt box, the clipboard, the conversation (a row the model reads) or another session.writes no files, environment variables, settings or conversation rows

This is a reading of the code text, not a security review: it does not run the mod, and it cannot see what a program the mod starts does. The check before installing is yours. How mods are chosen

Install it

Check it yourself before you install it. Mods run unsandboxed, with your permissions, and ModsCode does not vouch for what this code does. Read its code (or run claude plugin validate . in its folder), weigh what it reaches, and install the commit you read.

From its marketplace

Its repository is its marketplace. Add that marketplace (in the terminal with these commands, or in the desktop app's plugin settings) and install the mod from it:

/plugin marketplace add muellerei/task-line
/plugin install task-line@muellerei-mods
/reload-plugins

This installs the marketplace's latest commit, which may not be the one read here (eac21f136e2e). Compare them before you install. /reload-plugins loads it into a session that is already open.

Try the commit ModsCode read

No marketplace needed. In a terminal, clone the repository, check out the commit read, validate the mod, and load it for one session:

git clone https://github.com/muellerei/task-line
git -C task-line checkout eac21f136e2e932be2acc27ef02ff4ca30e002f6
claude plugin validate task-line
claude --plugin-dir task-line

The validate line lists the events the mod hooks and what it asks Claude Code to do, without running it. The last line loads the mod for this session only and writes nothing to your settings. If the author has rewritten history, the commit may no longer exist.

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