Author: Peter Whyte
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A Custom Claude Code Status Line in PowerShell
A status line is a script Claude Code runs with session JSON on stdin and prints under the prompt: model, folder, git branch, context used, cost. The PowerShell version for Windows, the settings.json entry with the forward-slash path, the fields you can show, and /statusline.
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Rewind Claude Code Edits With Checkpoints
Claude went the wrong way 3 prompts ago. Esc twice opens the rewind menu: restore the code, the conversation, or both, to any earlier prompt, or summarise a stretch to free context. What checkpoints track, what they do not, and when git is still the undo.
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Claude Code in VS Code on Windows: the Extension, the CLI and WSL
The Claude Code extension for VS Code: installing it, opening the panel, signing in, how it relates to the claude you run in a terminal, the shortcuts and settings that matter on Windows, and what changes in a WSL or remote window.
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Claude Code Keyboard Shortcuts: Shift+Tab, Esc and the !, @ and / Prefixes
The keys and prompt prefixes that make a Claude Code session faster: / for commands, ! for shell mode, @ for files, Shift+Tab to cycle permission modes, Esc to interrupt, Esc twice to rewind, multi-line input, history search and your own keybindings.json.
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Claude Code on Windows: The Complete Guide
Every Claude Code post on this site in the order you would need them: installing it natively or in WSL, the VS Code extension, driving a session, CLAUDE.md and permissions, hooks, MCP, skills and subagents, and running it from PowerShell.
Three guides collect the posts by the job you are doing rather than by date.
PowerShellFiles, CSVs, the firewall, scheduled tasks WSLInstalling it, distros, files across both worlds Windows AdministrationServers, domains, DNS, the tools worth havingThis site started as a SQL Server blog in 2017 and the archive is still here. The new SQL Server writing, and all the scripts, moved to a site of their own.
sqldba.blogScripts, error library, wait types, SSMS- CLAUDE.md: Project Memory for Claude Code
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