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// 72d agoOPENSOURCE RELEASE
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
72d ago
2026-03-17
PUBLISHED
72d ago
2026-03-17
RELEVANCE
9/ 10