Status line silently empty since Claude Code 2.1.232 (nested git repos lost inherited workspace trust — command never invoked)

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Summary

Not a bug in ccstatusline itself, but a Claude Code behavior change that makes ccstatusline silently disappear for many users — worth a Troubleshooting note in the README.

Since Claude Code 2.1.232, the status line renders as an empty row in any project whose workspace trust was inherited from a parent directory. ccstatusline is never executed at all (verified with a logging wrapper around the command — zero invocations), so nothing on the ccstatusline side can fix or even detect it.

Root cause (Claude Code side)

1. Claude Code ≥ 2.1.51 only executes a custom statusLine command in projects with accepted workspace trust (hasTrustDialogAccepted: true in ~/.claude.json) — a deliberate security gate.
2. Before 2.1.232, git repos nested under an already-trusted parent directory (e.g. ~/Projects) inherited trust, the trust dialog never appeared, and the per-project flag stayed at its default false while everything still worked.
3. Claude Code 2.1.232 changelog: "Fixed nested git repositories inheriting trust from a parent directory; each repository now requires its own trust confirmation." After updating, every such repo becomes untrusted by its own flag, no trust dialog is re-shown, and the status line just silently goes empty — only in those folders.

The confusing part for users: ccstatusline runs perfectly when invoked manually from the same folder, config is intact, other folders still work → it looks exactly like a ccstatusline bug. In my case dozens of repos under ~/Projects were affected at once.

Fix / workaround

Set "hasTrustDialogAccepted": true for the affected project path in ~/.claude.json (or get Claude Code to show the trust dialog again) and start a new session.

Suggestion

Add a short Troubleshooting entry to the README, something like:

Status line is empty in one specific folder (Claude Code ≥ 2.1.232)?
Claude Code only runs custom status line commands in trusted workspaces. Nested git repositories no longer inherit trust from a parent folder since 2.1.232, and the trust prompt may not reappear. Check hasTrustDialogAccepted for that project path in ~/.claude.json.

I'm also aware the underlying UX regression (no re-prompt, no indication) belongs to anthropics/claude-code; filing here since ccstatusline users are the ones who hit it as "my status line vanished".

Diagnosed on macOS, Claude Code 2.1.232, ccstatusline via npm.