entracte

Earn AI credits on Claude Code in one command — a discreet, clearly labelled sponsor line, and every impression on your surfaces credits you. The clean, official way (uses only supported settings, patches nothing):

1. a status line sponsor (the default), and
2. (opt-in, --spinner) a sponsored spinner verb woven into the "thinking" word — it replaces Claude's own verb, so it stays off by default.

Install

npx entracte

That writes ~/.claude/entracte-statusline.mjs + ~/.claude/entracte-spinner.mjs and configures ~/.claude/settings.json (with a backup). Restart Claude Code:

# status line (the default)
⬦ Reach European developers, privacy-first · Sponsored

# with --spinner, the "thinking" word also becomes the sponsor
✦ Become a sponsor…

Cmd/Ctrl-click the status line to open the sponsor (iTerm2 / Kitty / WezTerm). Also sponsor the thinking verb: npx entracte --spinner (add --mixed to blend it with Claude's own verbs instead of replacing them). Uninstall anytime:

npx entracte --uninstall

What it does (and doesn't)

• Calls the same surface-agnostic /api/serve as the web widget.
• Status line: caches the decision (30s); fires the view beacon only when the session is active — advertisers pay for real attention, not idle tabs.
• Status line refreshes per turn — and with --spinner, shares its sponsor with the thinking verb. Hooks (SessionStart + UserPromptSubmit + Stop) fetch a fresh sponsor each turn and publish it to a session cache the status line reads; with --spinner they also set spinnerVerbs (the "thinking" word — replace by default, --mixed to blend with Claude's own). So the bottom line rotates every turn, and the spinner mirrors it when enabled. Claude Code hot-reloads settings.json, so the live spinner update depends on the build honoring that for spinnerVerbs; the status line is dynamic either way. Only the status line fires the (metered) view beacon — once per sponsor. The hook returns instantly and prints nothing (a detached worker does the fetch), so it never delays startup or leaks into the conversation.
• Sets no cookies, sends no identifiers, reads no code — only the repo's shape (language/framework) for context.
• If you've linked your machine (entracte earner account), impressions are attributed to you and you earn AI credits — spendable on any model.
• Patches nothing of Anthropic's. Removing it leaves zero trace.

Env (optional): ENTRACTE_API (default https://api.entracte.ai), ENTRACTE_PUBLISHER (default entracte).

A pure-Python status-line variant (entracte-statusline.py) ships too.