claude-hud
A Claude Code plugin that shows what's happening - context usage, active tools, running agents, and todo progress
Monitor context usage, active tools, and progress in your Claude Code environment with this plugin.
From the README
git clone https://github.com/jarrodwatts/claude-hud cd claude-hud npm ci && npm run build
- Native token data from Claude Code (not estimated)
- Scales with Claude Code's reported context window size, including newer 1M-context sessions
- Parses the transcript for tool/agent activity
- Re-renders after each interaction (new assistant messages, /compact, permission changes, vim-mode toggles), debounced at 300ms
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claude-hud has 27.7k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 1.3k times. claude-hud is written mainly in JavaScript. It has been in active development since 2026. claude-hud is available under the MIT license. Its main topics are anthropic, claude, claude-code, cli.
What is claude-hud?
A Claude Code plugin that shows what's happening - context usage, active tools, running agents, and todo progress
Is claude-hud open source?
claude-hud is an open-source project. It is released under the MIT license.
Is claude-hud free?
Yes. claude-hud is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.
What license does claude-hud use?
claude-hud is available under the MIT license.
What language is claude-hud written in?
claude-hud is written mainly in JavaScript.
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