dwellsh

Turn the waiting into earnings.

When you ask Claude Code something, one sponsored line of text sits in your status line while the model works. When the answer arrives, it is gone. You get paid in USDC on Stellar.

npm i -g dwellsh && dwell init --spinner

After install, the command is dwell.

What it looks like

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One line, plain text, in the status line at the bottom of Claude Code. It shows only while you are waiting — it disappears when the answer lands, and an idle terminal shows nothing at all.

That is the only condition: you have to be waiting. No waiting, no line, no impression, no payment.

Install

npm i -g dwellsh && dwell init --spinner             # install and start
dwell init --spinner   # also use the "Thinking…" words at the top

Then open a new Claude Code session.

Getting paid

dwell login      # connect your wallet — earnings go here
dwell balance    # what you have earned

dwell login opens a page on your own machine and you sign with Freighter. Your private key never enters this tool.

Your identity is your wallet address. No GitHub, no email, no password.

Commands

| Command | What it does | |---|---| | dwell init | install and start | | dwell login | connect your wallet | | dwell balance | show earnings | | dwell whoami | show the connected wallet | | dwell status | daemon status | | dwell doctor | diagnose the install | | dwell restart | restart the daemon | | dwell pause / resume | stop showing ads for now | | dwell logout | disconnect the wallet | | dwell uninstall | remove it |

Leaving

dwell uninstall

It removes only our own entries. If you have your own settings in settings.json, they are left exactly as they were — we do not restore from a backup, because that would silently undo changes you made after the backup was taken.

What we send

Being clear about this matters: if a tool installs something on your machine, you should know what it sees.

We send: impression id, campaign id, duration, session id, client version, OS and architecture.

We never send: your directory paths, your file names, your prompts, your code. The value used to tell projects apart is hashed with a salt generated on your machine that never leaves it — raw paths never reach the network.

Things you should know

Claude Code hides some of the keyboard hints at the bottom (like esc to interrupt) while a custom statusLine is defined. That is Claude Code's behaviour, not our choice — but you are the one who lives with it, so we say it up front.

With --spinner, the "Thinking…" words at the top change too. That field accepts one list at a time, so if another tool writes to it as well, one of you overwrites the other.

Status

Testnet. The payout mechanism works and has been verified on Stellar testnet; mainnet is out of scope for now.

Without a server connection dwell shows sample ads and records no earnings. dwell init tells you when that is the case.

Links

• github.com/ynsmlkc/Dwell

License

MIT