Add toggle to hide the branch status badge / PR widget

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Problem Statement

The Claude Code branch status badge widget displays open PRs with
diff stats (e.g., "+180827 -208") and CI status indicators in the
sidebar. There is no built-in setting to hide it.

I'm currently working on a long-lived feature branch (Phase 4 of
my project) where the diff numbers are misleading — the widget
shows ~180k additions because this is the first PR that includes
a fresh package-lock.json (~40 MB). That number is not
meaningful information for me, and seeing it on every screen
refresh adds visual noise during focused coding sessions.

The widget also occupies sidebar real estate. Collapsing the
entire sidebar (Ctrl+B) is the only way to hide it, but that
hides everything else useful too.

Related existing issues:

• #34194 — Allow me to hide data shown in Claude desktop
• #28703 — PR widget diff stats include untracked files
• #51738 — Branch status badge shows diff-vs-base line count

Proposed Solution

Any one of the following would solve this:

1. A settings.json flag, e.g.:

"showBranchStatusBadge": false

1. A right-click context menu on the widget itself with a

"Hide" option that persists across sessions.

1. A /toggle-pr-widget slash command (similar to how /statusline

currently works for the status line).

Option 1 is my preference — it's non-interactive, easy to set
globally via my dotfiles, and matches how other Claude Code
display preferences are configured.

Alternative Solutions

• I currently collapse the entire sidebar with Ctrl+B, but this

hides every other useful panel (sessions, file tree, etc.), not
just the PR widget.

• I tried switching to Claude Code CLI in a plain terminal, which

doesn't show the widget — but I lose the IDE integration
benefits I rely on (inline diffs, file navigation, etc.).

• Tried /feedback inside the desktop build, but it returned:

"/feedback is only available for local sessions on this desktop
build." That's why I'm filing here on GitHub instead.

Priority

Low - Nice to have

Feature Category

CLI commands and flags

Use Case Example

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Additional Context

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