Interlude renders one tasteful line in the Claude Code status bar while the agent works — a clearly-labelled sponsored dev-tool line, on from the first install, and most of the money is yours. Want your own content instead? Switch to useful mode anytime.
No bundle patching, no telemetry creep, no surprises. Interlude installs through the one documented setting Claude Code gives you — and earns only when a line is genuinely on screen.
Configure the official statusLine. We back up your settings.json and restore it byte-for-byte on uninstall. Nothing else is touched, ever.
A line counts only after it's been visible ≥5s. Step away and counting pauses. Your machine keeps its own SQLite ledger that reconciles to the server.
You start in paid — a sponsored line shows and the majority of the revenue accrues to you. Prefer your own content? interlude mode useful turns it off.
of every sponsored impression goes to the developer whose machine showed it. The rate is frozen on accrual — retroactive changes never touch money you've already earned.
Every guardrail is a promise we keep in code, not a setting we hope you don't toggle.
Configures Claude Code through documented settings only. Never patches a bundle, never touches a CSP.
Uninstall restores your settings.json exactly — including a pre-existing status line — with zero residue.
Every sponsored rotation is Ed25519-signed. The CLI verifies the signature before it renders a single line.
Visible ≥5s or it doesn't count. Idle detection pauses metering when you walk away.
Targets only the tags you declare. Interlude never reads your source or your dependencies.
Money is double-entry and BigDecimal to the micro-dollar. Cleared funds are never clawed back.