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diff-seismograph
A live braille seismograph of every edit above the prompt, quake alerts for big changes, and a heat treemap of the repo
What it does
- Draws a band above the prompt, a pane
- Adds /quake
- Watches tool calls
- Hooks session.start
- Starts processes
Good points
- No network calls
- Written in TypeScript
- Has a desktop-specific branch
- Handles errors
Code to start from
A starter ModsCode writes from the drawing it read, and the mod's own lines that draw, where there are any.
Starter (register.tsx)
import type { Register } from 'claude-code'
// Drawn like diff-seismograph by Chris Dwyer (pane, band), as ModsCode read it from the mod's code:
// https://modscode.com/claude-mods/mods/ccdwyer-diff-seismograph/
// Written by ModsCode from that reading, not copied from the mod: use it as you like.
// Each value below stands for one the mod works out at run time; put in your own.
export const register: Register = on => {
// the band above the prompt; what else goes there is drawn under it
on('ui.render', { component: 'AbovePrompt' }, async ($, e, next) => {
const { Box, Text } = $.ui.resolve(e)
const line = '…'
const add = '…'
const del = '…'
const files = '…'
const quakeNote = '…'
return (
<Box flexDirection="column">
<Text>
{"≋ "}
{line}
{" +"}
{add}
{" −"}
{del}
{" · "}
{files}
{" files"}
{quakeNote}
</Text>
{await next(e)}
</Box>
)
})
// the pane: open it with $.ui.open({ id: 'my-pane', title: "Diff Seismograph" })
on('ui.render', { component: 'Pane', requestId: 'my-pane' }, async ($, e) => {
const { Box, Text } = $.ui.resolve(e)
const sparkline = '…'
const summary = '…'
const largestLine = '…'
const latestLine = '…'
const fileLine = '…'
const fileLine2 = '…'
const fileLine3 = '…'
return (
<Box flexDirection="column">
<Text bold>
Session seismograph
</Text>
<Text>
{sparkline}
</Text>
<Text>
{summary}
</Text>
<Text>
{largestLine}
</Text>
<Text>
{latestLine}
</Text>
<Text>
{fileLine}
</Text>
<Text>
{fileLine2}
</Text>
<Text>
{fileLine3}
</Text>
</Box>
)
})
}
The mod's own code
Shown under the mod's licence (MIT); its text is below. Keep the notice if you copy these lines.
hooks/register.tsx lines 355–396 · Band
on('ui.render', { component: 'AbovePrompt' }, async ($, e, next) => {
const t = await read($, totals)
const isOn = await read($, band)
if (e.props.hasSurvey || !isOn || t.edits === 0 || e.props.maxRows < 2 || e.props.bodyColumns < 20) {
if (site !== null && site.requestId === e.requestId) site = null
return next(e)
}
const hud = hudOf(t)
const flashingNow = alert !== null && alert.framesLeft > 0
if (e.surface !== 'terminal') {
if (site !== null && site.requestId === e.requestId) site = null
// One row here: the mods beneath get the rest of the band.
const below = await next({ ...e, props: { ...e.props, maxRows: e.props.maxRows - 1 } })
const list = await read($, events)
const { Box, Text } = $.ui.resolve(e)
const line = sparkline(list.map(ev => ev.add + ev.del), 40)
const quakeNote = flashingNow && alert !== null ? ` ◆ QUAKE M${alert.mag.toFixed(1)} ${baseName(alert.file)}` : ''
return (
<Box flexDirection="column">
<Text>
≋ {line} +{hud.add} −{hud.del} · {hud.files} files{quakeNote}
</Text>
{below}
</Box>
)
}
const { Box, Raster } = $.ui.resolve(e)
const columns = Math.min(512, e.props.bodyColumns)
const rows = e.props.maxRows >= 4 ? 3 : 2
// Reserve this band's rows before the mods beneath draw, so together they fit.
const below = await next({ ...e, props: { ...e.props, maxRows: e.props.maxRows - rows } })
site = { requestId: e.requestId, columns, rows }
trace.resize(columns)
const flashing = alert !== null && alert.framesLeft > 0
const cells = bandCells(trace, columns, rows, hud, flashing ? alert : null, flashing).encode()
return (
<Box flexDirection="column">
<Raster key={BAND_KEY} columns={columns} rows={rows} cells={cells} />
{below}
</Box>
)
})hooks/register.tsx lines 398–463 · Pane
on('ui.render', { component: 'Pane', requestId: PANE }, async ($, e) => {
const list = await read($, events)
const files = await read($, heat)
const repo = await read($, map)
const latest = await read($, quake)
const t = await read($, totals)
const biggest = await read($, largest)
const hottest = Object.entries(files)
.sort((a, b) => weightOf(b[1]) - weightOf(a[1]))
.slice(0, 6)
const columns = Math.max(30, Math.min(512, e.props.bodyColumns))
const viewRows = e.viewport?.rows ?? 40
const fileCount = Object.keys(files).length
const summary = `+${t.add} −${t.del} across ${fileCount} file${fileCount === 1 ? '' : 's'} · ${t.edits} edit${t.edits === 1 ? '' : 's'} · ${t.quakes} quake${t.quakes === 1 ? '' : 's'}`
const largestLine = biggest === null ? '' : `largest: ${describe(biggest)}`
const latestLine = latest === null || sameQuake(latest, biggest) ? '' : `latest quake: ${describe(latest)}`
const fileLine = (file: string, fh: FileHeat) => `${baseName(file)} +${fh.add} −${fh.del}${fh.touched > 0 ? ' (+ unmeasured changes)' : ''}`
if (e.surface !== 'terminal') {
const { Box, Text } = $.ui.resolve(e)
return (
<Box flexDirection="column">
<Text bold>Session seismograph</Text>
<Text>{sparkline(list.map(ev => ev.add + ev.del), Math.min(80, columns))}</Text>
<Text>{summary}</Text>
{largestLine.length > 0 && <Text>{largestLine}</Text>}
{latestLine.length > 0 && <Text>{latestLine}</Text>}
{hottest.map(([file, fh]) => (
<Text key={file}>{fileLine(file, fh)}</Text>
))}
</Box>
)
}
const { Box, Text, Raster } = $.ui.resolve(e)
const graphRows = 6
const mapRows = Math.max(6, Math.min(40, viewRows - graphRows - 11))
const graph = sessionCells(list, columns, graphRows).encode()
return (
<Box flexDirection="column">
<Text bold color="cyan">
≋ SESSION SEISMOGRAPH
</Text>
<Raster key={PANE_GRAPH} columns={columns} rows={graphRows} cells={graph} />
<Text>
<Text color="green">+{t.add}</Text> <Text color="red">−{t.del}</Text>
<Text dimColor>
{' '}
across {fileCount} file{fileCount === 1 ? '' : 's'} · {t.edits} edit{t.edits === 1 ? '' : 's'} · {t.quakes} quake
{t.quakes === 1 ? '' : 's'}
</Text>
</Text>
{largestLine.length > 0 && <Text color="red">◆ {largestLine}</Text>}
{latestLine.length > 0 && <Text color="yellow">◇ {latestLine}</Text>}
<Text bold color="cyan">
▦ REPO HEAT MAP
</Text>
{repo === null ? (
<Text dimColor>Not a git repository, or git is unavailable: no heat map.</Text>
) : (
<Raster key={PANE_MAP} columns={columns} rows={mapRows} cells={treemapCells(entriesOf(repo, files), columns, mapRows).encode()} />
)}
{repo !== null && repo.isCut && <Text dimColor>The file listing was cut off: the map shows part of the repo.</Text>}
{repo !== null && repo.more > 0 && <Text dimColor>Largest {repo.files.length} files shown; {repo.more} smaller ones left out.</Text>}
{hottest.length > 0 && <Text dimColor>hottest: {hottest.map(([file, fh]) => fileLine(file, fh)).join(' ')}</Text>}
</Box>
)
})Licence text (MIT)
MIT License Copyright (c) 2026 Chris Dwyer Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
How to build this: Pane (panel), Deny a tool call
What its code calls
runs programsreads filestool calls
What its code shows
Read from the source at commit 5ca9be9df39c on 2026-10-11. The first group decides whether a mod is listed; the rest is for you to weigh. A later commit is not read until the next crawl.
| Decides the listing: code you can check | |
|---|---|
| Entry read | Every module hooks/hooks.json names was read.hooks/register.tsx |
| Parses | Every file parses as TypeScript or JavaScript.2 files parsed |
| All its code is in the mod | Every import is a file of the mod or the engine's own module; no packages, no require.all its code is in the mod |
| Readable | No minified lines, no eval or new Function, no import of a computed path, no encoded blobs.no minified code, no eval, no encoded blobs |
| Calls in the open | Network and programs are reached as $.http.fetch and $.process.run in place, never passed around.every call outside goes through $ in the open |
| For you to weigh before installing | |
| Where it draws | The terminal, the desktop app, both, or nothing (hooks only: a guard or a prompt rewriter), as its code says. Shown, never a reason to leave a mod out.draws in the terminal and the desktop app, the same in both |
| Install line | Whether its repository's own .claude-plugin/marketplace.json lists it, so it installs from that marketplace with the lines on its page.its repository's .claude-plugin/marketplace.json does not list it: no marketplace line to give; the page shows how to try the commit read |
| Programs on Windows | Whether every program it starts through $.process exists on Windows (tail, date, open, osascript, /usr/… do not).runs no program a Windows PC lacks |
| Network | Whether every fetch names its https host in the code.no network |
| Programs | Whether every program it starts is named in the code and is not a shell, an interpreter or a network tool.git (reaches the network) |
| Reads and sends | Whether it both reads something of yours (files, environment variables, the transcript, settings) and reaches outside (the network, an MCP server, another session, telemetry).reads files and reaches the network |
| Keys in the source | Whether the source holds what looks like an API key or a private key.no keys in the source |
| Licence | An open licence (MIT, Apache-2.0, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, 0BSD, CC0) with its text lets ModsCode show its code; otherwise the code is linked.MIT |
| Settings hooks | Hooks declared in hooks/hooks.json or plugin.json beside the module: a command (a shell when it has no args), an HTTP request, an MCP tool or a model prompt at an event. They run outside $.no settings hooks: its function hooks alone |
| Servers it ships | MCP servers (a program, or a URL; a headersHelper is a shell command; a .mcpb bundle is unpacked at run time), LSP servers, monitors (a shell command for the whole session) and bin/ (on the PATH of the Bash tool).ships no MCP or LSP server, no monitor, no bin/ |
| Skills, commands, agents | What its Markdown declares beyond text: allowed-tools granted for the turn, hooks added when a skill is invoked, a command run before Claude reads the skill.no skills, commands, agents or workflows |
| Tools and MCP | Whether every tool it calls through $.tool.call and $.mcp.call is named in the code, and none is a shell (Bash through the tool runs a shell without $.process).calls no tool, MCP server or command |
| Asks of the model | Completions it runs ($.model.complete, fork, classify), subagents it spawns, prompts it submits as you, and the tools, commands and agents it adds.adds command quake |
| Events it hooks | By what a hook there can do: gates (refuse a tool call, a prompt, a setting, another plugin), shapes (what the model reads: the system prompt, tool descriptions, each request), reads (your input, the events of the settings hooks, every event with *), and the rest.gates: command.run (quake), tool.call · also: session.start, ui.render (AbovePrompt, Pane) · timers: clock.every |
| Reads, by name | The environment variables and files it names, and whether it reads the transcript, settings.json, the prompt box or the mouse selection.files: a path computed at run time |
| Writes, by name | The files and environment variables it names, and whether it changes settings, the prompt box, the clipboard, the conversation (a row the model reads) or another session.writes no files, environment variables, settings or conversation rows |
This is a reading of the code text, not a security review: it does not run the mod, and it cannot see what a program the mod starts does. The check before installing is yours. How mods are chosen
Install it
Check it yourself before you install it. Mods run unsandboxed, with your permissions, and ModsCode does not vouch for what this code does. Read its code (or run claude plugin validate . in its folder), weigh what it reaches, and install the commit you read.
Its repository's .claude-plugin/marketplace.json does not list it, so there is no marketplace line to give.
Try the commit ModsCode read
No marketplace needed. In a terminal, clone the repository, check out the commit read, validate the mod, and load it for one session:
git clone https://github.com/ccdwyer/diff-seismographgit -C diff-seismograph checkout 5ca9be9df39c78ca57b3b7f51520a870df21b3a2claude plugin validate diff-seismographclaude --plugin-dir diff-seismographThe validate line lists the events the mod hooks and what it asks Claude Code to do, without running it. The last line loads the mod for this session only and writes nothing to your settings. If the author has rewritten history, the commit may no longer exist.
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