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7/20/2026
Claude HUD: Adding a Terminal Heads-Up Display to Claude Code

Claude HUD: Adding a Terminal Heads-Up Display to Claude Code

Short summary

Claude HUD is an open-source status-line plugin for Anthropic's Claude Code that provides real-time visibility into token usage, active tools, subagent activity, and task progress. It helps prevent context-window overflow errors by showing a live progress bar of token consumption. Installation is done via Claude Code's built-in plugin marketplace commands.

  • Open-source plugin adds real-time HUD showing token usage, active tools, and subagent status for Claude Code
  • Helps prevent context blindness by prompting session resets when token window fills up
  • Installable via three simple plugin marketplace commands

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