jarrodwatts/claude-hud

A Claude Code plugin that shows what's happening - context usage, active tools, running agents, and todo progress

AI agentsJavaScript#anthropic#claude#claude-code#cli#plugin

1.7 Steady Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 18, 2026.

About the project

A Claude Code plugin that displays session state right below the input line: context window usage, active tools, running subagents, and todo progress. It uses Claude Code's native statusline API, with no tmux or separate windows.

Useful for

Monitor context window usage to run /compact before it fills up
Watch which files Claude reads and edits in real time
Track todo progress and the activity of running subagents

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

13 stars so far today, about 16 expected by the end of the day.
GitHub Trending JavaScript today: #11, +43 stars.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 28,042
Stars in a day: 16
Forks: 1,302
Issues and pull requests: 759
Watchers: 41
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
Latest release: v0.8.0 · August 18, 2026
Created: January 2, 2026
Last push: September 12, 2026

Star trust

Star growth looks organic. The magnitude is lowered, not zeroed:

Hardly anyone watches for updates: 41 watchers for 28,042 stars.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

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September 18, 2026GitHub Trending JavaScript today: #11, +43 stars
September 17, 2026GitHub Trending JavaScript today: #11, +190 stars
September 16, 2026GitHub Trending JavaScript today: #11, +28 stars

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