Status bar
The status bar runs along the bottom of every page, the way it does in a code editor. It’s too wide to show whole here, so the two diagrams below take it in halves. Click a name in either one to jump to its section.
The left half starts with how you’re editing: Standard, or vim’s mode once you turn vim keys on. After a gap come the page’s agents. Suggestions counts what’s waiting for you to decide, Model is the model answering on this page, and Single agent says whether one agent handles every request or each request gets its own. Click the mode to switch editing, the count to accept or reject everything, or the model to open the agent panel.
The right half carries on with the agents: Cost is what this page’s runs have spent since you opened it, Page review asks an agent for questions in the margin, Questions counts the ones it left, and Debug opens the agent panel, its dot showing whether anything is running. The bar ends with where you are: the cursor’s Position, the page’s Words, and the Version of Solipsist serving it.
Some parts only show up when they have something to say: the suggestion count when a suggestion is waiting, the question count after a review, and vim’s typed keys while you type a command.
A coloured dot beside a part means the same thing everywhere in the bar: grey is idle, a breathing dot in the agent colour is at work, and red means something needs you.
Editing mode
Section titled “Editing mode”Standard is plain editing. Click it to turn on vim keys. The bar then shows vim’s mode instead: NORMAL,
INSERT, VISUAL or V-LINE, with the dot breathing whenever you’re out of normal mode. Click it again to go back to
Standard. A count or operator you’re halfway through typing, like 2d, shows beside the mode until the command is
complete. The keyboard reference lists what vim mode supports.
Suggestions
Section titled “Suggestions”How many suggestions are waiting in the page for you to decide on. Click it for a menu: Next jumps to the next one, and Accept all or Reject all decides every one at once. The next one is also on Mod+Alt+]. When none are waiting, the count goes away.
The model that answers requests on this page, shortened to its name (deepseek-flash-latest for
pi:openrouter/~deepseek/deepseek-flash-latest). Its dot breathes while a run is going. Click it to open the
agent panel, where you change the model and turn the page’s agents off and on.
If no model can run yet, this part reads Connect a model with a red dot. Click it to see the two ways to connect one.
Single agent
Section titled “Single agent”Whether the page has one long-running agent for every request (on) or a fresh agent per request (off, the
default). It’s set by agent.single_agent in your configuration, not from here. See
single-agent mode for what changes.
What this page’s agent runs have spent since you opened it, to the hundredth of a cent, added up as each run ends. The daily and monthly spending limits are kept by the server, across all pages. A run whose engine doesn’t report a price adds nothing here; the agent panel’s log marks it “cost not known”.
Page review
Section titled “Page review”Starts a page review: an agent reads the whole page and leaves questions in the margin. It can’t change the text. While it reads, the button says Reviewing… with a breathing dot, and its steps show in the agent panel. If a review finds nothing to ask, hovering the button says so.
Questions
Section titled “Questions”How many review questions are on the page. They sit in the right margin beside the passages they’re about. In a narrow window the margin is hidden, and this count is the only sign they’re there.
Opens and closes the agent panel, the same as clicking the model. Its dot tells you what the agents are doing without opening it; the panel’s status line says it in words:
| Dot | Means |
|---|---|
| Grey | Idle, waiting, or the page’s agents are off. |
| Breathing | At least one run is going. |
| Red | Something is wrong: the connection to the server dropped, or the page’s agents are running in another tab. |
Position and words
Section titled “Position and words”The cursor’s position as block and column (12:4 is the twelfth paragraph, heading or list item, fourth character),
then the page’s word count.
Version
Section titled “Version”Which version of Solipsist is serving the page, like v0.1.0. A build from source reads v0.1.0-dev. Hover it for
the full solipsist --version line, with the platform, commit and build date. That’s the line to put in a bug report.
See also
Section titled “See also”- Agent panel: what Model and Debug open.
- Keyboard: vim mode and the keys for suggestions.
- How the agents work: runs, single-agent mode and spending limits.
For Solipsist 0.1