@codevertise/claude-code

A Claude Code status line that pays you. Your Claude Code status line — the most-watched line in your terminal — shows a sponsored message from the Codevertise auction, and the publisher share of every impression (40% by default) accrues to your wallet in USDC.

Fable · my-project │ ⛁ $0.0008 │ [ad] ShipFast CI — your agent already pays for this slot

Install

npm install -g @codevertise/claude-code
codevertise install --wallet 0xYourPayoutAddress

That's it — two commands, no config. codevertise install wires statusLine into ~/.claude/settings.json (a timestamped backup is written first, and an existing custom status line is preserved: it keeps rendering and the sponsored segment is appended to it). The marketplace defaults to https://codevertise.dev; pass --endpoint URL only if you self-host. Open a new Claude Code session and the line is live.

Commands

| Command | Does | |---|---| | codevertise install --wallet 0x… [--endpoint URL] [--surface name] | wire up the status line | | codevertise uninstall | restore your previous status line exactly | | codevertise status | config, current ad, last error, withdrawable balance | | codevertise earnings | full ledger from the marketplace | | codevertise payout | request a USDC payout (≥ $10, on Base) | | codevertise open | open the sponsor link — clicks earn 50× an impression |

How it works (and why it's honest)

• The status-line process renders from local cache only — it never blocks Claude Code on the network (~45 ms, dominated by Node startup).
• All network work happens in a detached background tick: rotate to the current auction winner, report impressions, refresh earnings.
• View threshold: an impression is counted only after the ad was actually rendered for its full 5-second slot — the clock starts at first render, not at fetch. Every event carries an idempotent key, so retries can never double-credit you or double-bill the advertiser.
• State lives in ~/.codevertise/ (CODEVERTISE_HOME to override); your balance is authoritative on the marketplace, not on disk.
• Terminals that support OSC 8 (iTerm2, Kitty, WezTerm, Ghostty) make the sponsored text a real hyperlink; elsewhere it degrades to plain text and codevertise open does the same job.

No telemetry beyond the impression/click events themselves; the only identity is the wallet you chose to get paid on.