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7/20/2026

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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