jarrodwatts/claude-hud
A Claude Code plugin that shows what's happening - context usage, active tools, running agents, and todo progress
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest today, with 128 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #7 in the weekly ranking the week of Mar 22, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a real-time heads-up display showing context usage, active tools, running agents, and todo progress within Claude Code sessions.
- Offers native integration with Claude Code's statusline API for seamless, low-latency updates without additional windows or terminal multiplexers.
- Use for monitoring token context and usage limits visually during interactive AI coding sessions to avoid context overflow.
- Use for tracking active tools and subagents in complex Claude workflows to understand ongoing automated tasks and edits.
- Use for displaying real-time todo progress and git status to keep development tasks and version control visible in the coding environment.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
No watch-outs from GStars' checks.
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From the README
A Claude Code plugin that shows what's happening — context usage, active tools, running agents, and todo progress. Always visible below your input.
Inside a Claude Code instance, run the following commands:
Done! The HUD appears immediately — no restart needed.
Claude HUD gives you better insights into what's happening in your Claude Code session.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+1,946 stars over 89 days across 12 snapshot days; best day +192 on Sep 17.
Forks
1.3K+70
Open issues
1-17
Compared with peers in CLI
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 8, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| morluto/rea | 450.0K | +22.9K | 75 | 16 days ago |
| mattpocock/skills | 320.9K | +9.5K | 75 | 12 days ago |
| vercel-labs/agent-desktop | 21.4K | +8.7K | 75 | 5 days ago |
| stablyai/orca | 121.4K | +6.7K | 75 | today |
| vercel-labs/agent-browser | 49.2K | +3.8K | 75 | 1 day ago |
| jarrodwatts/claude-hud | 29.1K | — | 45 | today |
| Category median | 121.4K | +8.7K | 75 | — |
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