Put the project name on the bottom bar

The moment

I keep a lot of Claude Code windows open, one per project, in Ghostty.

All of them look the same. So I send things to the wrong one. A lot.

A task for project A lands in project B's window, and I say, out loud, "oops, wrong project."

The fix: a small Claude Code mod (5 minutes)

Claude Code lets you change the bar at the bottom (the status line), so I made a small mod of my own.

You can make it show anything.

I made it show the project name, big, on a colour block, with the git branch next to it.

Every project gets its own colour, so every window looks different.

• 🏷️The tag. Bold white text on terracotta: MOMO-WHISPER, then ⎇ main in grey.
• 🎨No setup needed. A project I haven't set up gets a colour picked from its folder name, from a palette of 10.
• 👍After one day. The project-name tag at the bottom really helps.

Set it up with one prompt

The easy way: paste this into Claude Code and let it do the work.

Set up my Claude Code status line (the bar at the bottom). Show the project folder name in bold white capitals on a colour block, then the git branch in grey. Pick the colour from the folder name, so each project always gets the same colour. Back up ~/.claude/settings.json before you change it.

Then open a new Claude Code session to see the bar.