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Claude HUD brings observability to Claude Code
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Claude HUD brings observability to Claude Code

Claude HUD is an open-source Claude Code plugin that adds a live statusline for context usage, tool activity, running agents, and todo progress directly in-terminal. The project is surging in developer adoption, with 5,095 GitHub stars and +454 today.

// ANALYSIS

This nails a real pain point in agentic coding: not knowing what your assistant is doing until things stall or context runs hot.

  • It uses Claude Code’s native statusline/token data, so visibility is immediate and not a rough estimate.
  • Real-time tool and subagent tracking makes multi-agent workflows easier to debug and trust.
  • Todo progress in-line reduces prompt churn because developers can monitor execution without interrupting the flow.
  • Fast star growth suggests “agent observability” is becoming a core UX layer, not a nice-to-have plugin category.
// TAGS
claude-hudclaude-codeai-codingagentclidevtoolopen-source

DISCOVERED

26d ago

2026-03-17

PUBLISHED

26d ago

2026-03-17

RELEVANCE

9/ 10