> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.research.prbe.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Status line

> A one-line indicator in Claude Code showing whether this session is tracked.

```bash theme={null}
probe statusline install
```

Adds a Probe segment under Claude Code's input box, so you can see at a glance whether what you are doing is being recorded.

<Note>
  This is one of the few things with no wizard screen: it writes into your agent's own settings file rather than Probe's, so it stays an explicit command you run.
</Note>

| Shows                 | Means                                  |
| --------------------- | -------------------------------------- |
| `○ untracked`         | This conversation is not recording     |
| `● folding`           | Tracked, against the `folding` project |
| `● folding · running` | Tracked, and a run is currently open   |

## It keeps what you already had

Installing **wraps** an existing status line rather than replacing it. If you already have one configured, it keeps running and the Probe segment is chained after it.

```bash theme={null}
probe statusline status      # whether it is installed, and what else shares the slot
probe statusline show        # print the segment this session would render right now
probe statusline uninstall   # remove the segment, restoring what was wrapped
```

`status` prints the settings file it wrote to, the command it installed, and what it chained after — which is the thing to read when two tools are competing for the slot.

## Why it is worth installing

The expensive failure is not "tracking was off". It is "tracking was off and nobody noticed for three weeks". A session that is recording nothing looks exactly like a session that is recording everything, right up until you go looking for the run.

<Tip>
  If the indicator says `untracked` and you expected otherwise, `probe session status` gives the full decision — which default applied, what the machine default is, and whether the capture daemon is actually running.
</Tip>

## Changing what it reports

```text theme={null}
/probe on
```

```bash theme={null}
probe session track            # this conversation
probe session default on       # what new sessions start at
```

See [the switch](/agents/overview#the-switch).