Feature request: per-project scoped statusLine and notifications

Resolved 💬 4 comments Opened May 5, 2026 by ApolloZhangOnGithub Closed May 5, 2026

Context

Claude Code's statusLine in settings.json is a global config. When users set up a custom status line script that shows project-specific info (e.g. unread message counts, build status), it displays across all projects — even where it's irrelevant.

Proposal

Support per-project statusLine configuration, similar to how .claude/settings.json already provides per-project hook and permission settings. This would allow:

  1. Project-level statusLine in .claude/settings.json (per-project) that overrides or extends the global one.
  2. Pass project root path as part of the JSON input to statusLine scripts, so scripts can self-filter without hardcoding paths.

Option 2 is the minimal change — the statusLine script already receives JSON via stdin with workspace.current_dir, but having an explicit workspace.project_root would make project-scoping trivial.

Why

Users working across multiple projects shouldn't see status info from unrelated projects. Currently the workaround is hardcoding path checks in the shell script, which is fragile.

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Note: this is a genuine feature request. A previous issue (#56412) was filed by mistake about a misconfigured script — this one is about the actual product gap behind it.

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