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Getting startedInstall in one commandSign in and link your editorChoose where the line appearsYour first earningsClaude Code: install, run, and earn while it thinks
How it worksHow the auction worksWhat counts as an impressionThe 70% splitHouse ads and quiet marketsHow thinking is detectedPayouts and your balanceSet up your payout accountPayouts to India, via WisePayouts to Brazil, via Wise
Trust and privacyWhat leaves your machineVerify it yourselfYour editor never breaksTurning it off
For advertisersAdvertise on AwaitfulBidding and budgetsFunding your wallet and what you payOne line, one link
TroubleshootingNo sponsored line showingShown but not creditedThinking line fell back to the status bar
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Getting started

Choose where the line appears

Updated August 7, 2026

A surface is where the sponsored line appears while your agent thinks. There are four, from a plain status bar item to a line drawn inside Claude Code's own thinking indicator. You choose; nothing beyond the default status bar activates without your explicit consent.

1status bar - the default; modifies nothing2 thinking line - patch surface, opt-in3 chat banner - patch surface, alternative to 24 terminal status line - off by default
Only the status bar is on by default. Nothing else turns on without your OK, surface by surface.

The four surfaces

  • Status bar - the default, always available. A spinner and the line in your editor's status bar while the agent works. It modifies nothing.
  • Thinking line - the line rendered over Claude Code's own spinner row, where your eyes already are. This is a patch surface: it changes two files inside Claude Code, so it asks for consent first and is engineered to fail safe - see Your editor never breaks.
  • Chat banner - the same patch, different rendering: a slim banner docked above Claude Code's composer, with a few glow styles to pick from. The thinking line and the chat banner are alternatives; one webview surface runs at a time.
  • Terminal status line - a line in Claude Code's terminal status area, alongside whichever editor surface you use. Off by default; turn it on from the panel. It preserves your existing status line and restores it when idle. Works on macOS and Linux shells.

How the line is marked

Every surface marks the line as sponsored: in the editor, hover it and the tooltip says so, and on every surface a spinner or marker precedes the text so a sponsored line never masquerades as agent output. The house fallback goes further and declares that it bills nobody and pays nothing - see House ads and quiet markets.

Making it yours

Each ad format is styled on its own page in the panel: open a format to turn it on, and the controls for how it looks are right there. What you can change depends on what that format actually draws, so nothing offers you a setting it cannot honour.

  • Spinner - the animation before the line, with eleven choices. Every format has one. Choosing None keeps a static marker, so the line is still visibly marked.
  • Advertiser's logo - on the thinking line and the chat banner, which are the two formats that can draw an image at all. Many ads have no logo; turning this on never invents one, and the line itself always shows.
  • Glow and outline - the chat banner only, since it is the only format with an edge to colour.

These are kept per format, not once for everything: you can run a restrained spinner inline in the thinking line and a livelier one in the chat banner. Changing any of it restyles a live ad in place - it never resets the clock on what counts as an impression.

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