I keep Claude Code in a tmux pane above a zsh pane, so its status line sits just above my zsh prompt, and the two almost matched. Both used the same powerlevel10k colours and separators, but Claude’s line started 2 columns further in and stopped wherever its text ran out. The zsh line ran the full width of the terminal, so the pair looked misaligned.

The fix was a dotted gap computed from $COLUMNS and "padding": -2, a value the docs don’t mention. Now both prompts start at column 0 and close on the same column, 134 of 135.