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neon-hud
A live HUD above the prompt: turn timer, active skill, subagent tree, git state, rtk token savings and one-click session checkpoints
What it does
- Draws a band above the prompt, toasts
- Adds /hud
- Watches tool calls
- Hooks session.start, turn.complete, turn.start
- Keeps its own state between turns
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 neon-hud by Ezequiel Cutin (band, toast), as ModsCode read it from the mod's code:
// https://modscode.com/claude-mods/mods/ezequielcutin-neon-hud/
// 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 } = $.ui.resolve(e)
const filter = '…'
return (
<Box flexDirection="column">
<Box justifyContent="space-between" flexWrap="wrap" columnGap={2}>
<Box columnGap={1} flexWrap="wrap" />
<Box columnGap={1} flexWrap="wrap" />
</Box>
<Box flexDirection="column" />
<Box position="relative" height={1} overflow="hidden" paddingLeft={1}>
<Box flexGrow={1}>
<Box width={8} flexShrink={0}>
<Text bold>
SESSION
</Text>
</Box>
<Text>
{"│ "}
</Text>
<Text wrap="truncate-end">
{filter}
</Text>
</Box>
</Box>
{await next(e)}
</Box>
)
})
on('session.start', async ($, e, next) => {
const path = '…'
const error = '…'
await $.ui.toast(`checkpoint saved: ${path}`)
await $.ui.toast(`checkpoint failed: ${error}`)
return next(e)
})
}
The mod's own code
Shown under the mod's licence (MIT); its text is below. Keep the notice if you copy these lines.
plugins/neon-hud/hooks/register.tsx lines 528–687 · Band
on('ui.render', { component: 'AbovePrompt' }, async ($, e, next) => {
if (e.props.hasSurvey) return next(e)
const isDesktop = e.surface === 'desktop'
const C = isDesktop ? DESK : CLI
const off = hiddenSegments(await read($, hidden))
const { Box, Text, Button } = $.ui.resolve(e)
const now = await $.clock.now()
// A chip. Desktop: graphite, flush with the host surface. Terminal: slate, led by an accent edge.
const pill = (id: string, accent: string, isLit: boolean, body: JSX.Element) => (
<Box
key={`pill-${id}`}
backgroundColor={C.chip}
paddingLeft={isDesktop ? 1 : 0}
paddingRight={1}
hover={{ scope: `hud-${id}`, backgroundColor: C.chipHover }}
>
{!isDesktop && <Text color={isLit ? accent : C.faint}>▌</Text>}
{body}
</Box>
)
// A console line: a fixed-width label column, a rule, then the line.
// Every line shares the column, so swapping one in on hover doesn't shift the text.
const consoleLine = (label: string, accent: string, body: JSX.Element) => (
<Box flexGrow={1}>
<Box width={8} flexShrink={0}>
<Text color={accent} bold>{label}</Text>
</Box>
<Text color={C.rule}>{'│ '}</Text>
{body}
</Box>
)
const detail = (id: string, label: string, accent: string, body: JSX.Element) => (
<Box
key={`detail-${id}`}
position="absolute"
top={0}
left={0}
right={0}
display="none"
backgroundColor={C.chip}
paddingLeft={1}
hover={{ scope: `hud-${id}`, display: 'flex' }}
>
{consoleLine(label, accent, body)}
</Box>
)
const left: JSX.Element[] = []
const right: JSX.Element[] = []
const details: JSX.Element[] = []
let tree: JSX.Element[] = []
// ── turn ──
if (!off.includes('turn')) {
const t = await read($, turn)
const mix = await read($, toolMix)
const isWorking = t.startedAt !== null
if (isWorking || t.lastMs !== null) {
const elapsed = isWorking ? now - (t.startedAt as number) : (t.lastMs as number)
const calls = isWorking ? t.tools : t.lastTools
left.push(
pill('turn', C.live, isWorking,
<Box>
<Text color={isWorking ? C.live : C.faint}>{isWorking ? SPIN[Math.floor(elapsed / 1000) % 4] : '◷'}</Text>
<Text color={isWorking ? C.text : C.dim} bold={isWorking}>{` ${duration(elapsed)}`}</Text>
<Text color={C.dim}>{` ${plural(calls, 'call')}`}</Text>
</Box>,
),
)
const breakdown = topEntries(isWorking ? mix.current : mix.last, 6)
details.push(
detail('turn', isWorking ? 'LIVE' : 'LAST', isWorking ? C.live : C.dim,
<Text color={C.text} wrap="truncate-end">
{breakdown.length === 0 ? 'no tool calls' : breakdown.map(([k, v]) => `${shortTool(k)} ×${v}`).join(' · ')}
</Text>,
),
)
}
}
// ── skill ──
if (!off.includes('skill')) {
const name = await read($, skill)
if (name !== null) {
const history = await read($, skillHistory)
left.push(
pill('skill', C.skill, true,
<Box>
<Text color={C.skill}>◆ </Text>
<Text color={C.text}>{shortSkill(name)}</Text>
</Box>,
),
)
details.push(
detail('skill', 'SKILL', C.skill,
<Text wrap="truncate-end">
<Text color={C.text}>{name}</Text>
{history.length > 1 && <Text color={C.dim}>{` prev ${history.slice(1).map(shortSkill).join(', ')}`}</Text>}
</Text>,
),
)
}
}
// ── agents ──
if (!off.includes('agents')) {
const a = await read($, agents)
const visible = visibleAgents((a.list ?? []).filter(x => x.id !== undefined), now)
const isSettled = (x: HudAgent) => x.status !== 'running' && x.endedAt !== null && now - x.endedAt >= SETTLE_MS
const done = visible.filter(isSettled).length
const active = visible.length - done
if (visible.length > 0) {
left.push(
pill('agents', C.agents, active > 0,
<Box>
<Text color={active > 0 ? C.agents : C.faint}>⑂ </Text>
<Text color={C.text} bold={active > 0}>{String(active)}</Text>
<Text color={C.dim}>{' running'}</Text>
{done > 0 && <Text color={C.dim}>{` ${done} done`}</Text>}
</Box>,
),
)
// The fleet as a tree, one line per agent, children indented under the agent that spawned them
{
const ids = new Set(visible.map(x => x.id))
const childrenOf = (parent: string | null) =>
visible.filter(x => (x.parentId !== null && ids.has(x.parentId) ? x.parentId : null) === parent)
const agentLine = (x: HudAgent, depth: number, isFirst: boolean) => {
const isRunning = x.status === 'running'
const isSettling = !isRunning && x.endedAt !== null && now - x.endedAt < SETTLE_MS
const isFailed = !isRunning && !isSettling && x.status !== 'completed'
const glyph = isRunning ? SPIN[Math.floor(now / 1000) % 4] : isSettling ? '◌' : isFailed ? '✗' : '✓'
const glyphColor = isRunning ? C.agents : isSettling ? C.dim : isFailed ? C.red : C.green
const state = isRunning ? (x.lastTool ? shortTool(x.lastTool) : '') : isSettling ? 'waiting' : x.status
// Fixed-width, right-aligned stat columns: a number growing a digit can't shove the line
const stat = (key: string, width: number, text: string, color: string) => (
<Box key={key} width={width} flexShrink={0} justifyContent="flex-end">
<Text color={color} wrap="truncate-end">{text}</Text>
</Box>
)
return (
<Box key={`agent-${x.id}`} paddingLeft={1}>
{consoleLine(isFirst ? 'AGENTS' : '', C.agents,
<Box flexGrow={1}>
<Box flexGrow={1} flexShrink={1}>
<Text wrap="truncate-end">
{depth > 0 && <Text color={C.faint}>{`${' '.repeat(depth - 1)} └ `}</Text>}
<Text color={glyphColor}>{`${glyph} `}</Text>
<Text color={isRunning ? C.text : C.dim} bold={isRunning}>{x.type}</Text>
<Text color={C.dim}>{` ${x.description}`}</Text>
</Text>
</Box>
{stat('t', 9, duration((x.endedAt ?? now) - x.seenAt), C.faint)}
{stat('c', 10, plural(x.tools, 'call'), C.faint)}
{stat('s', 14, state, isRunning ? C.dim : C.faint)}
</Box>,
)}Licence text (MIT)
MIT License Copyright (c) 2026 Ezequiel Cutin 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: Band above the prompt, Deny a tool call
What its code calls
runs programswrites filesenv varsdrives Claudetool callsremembers
What its code shows
Read from the source at commit 555ca83cc469 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.plugins/neon-hud/hooks/register.tsx |
| Parses | Every file parses as TypeScript or JavaScript.1 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, with its own branch for the desktop |
| 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.listed in its repository's .claude-plugin/marketplace.json: installs from there |
| Programs on Windows | Whether every program it starts through $.process exists on Windows (tail, date, open, osascript, /usr/… do not).plugins/neon-hud/hooks/register.tsx:359 /bin/date (not on Windows) |
| 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.plugins/neon-hud/hooks/register.tsx:165 a program named at run time; plugins/neon-hud/hooks/register.tsx:180 a program named at run time; plugins/neon-hud/hooks/register.tsx:191 a program named at run time |
| 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 environment variables, files, but reaches nothing outside |
| 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.model.fork (sends its own transcript), adds command hud |
| 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: tool.call, command.run (hud) · also: session.start, turn.start, turn.complete, ui.render (AbovePrompt) · 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.env: HOME, XDG_DATA_HOME; files: …/…/… |
| 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.files: …/…/… |
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.
From its marketplace
Its repository is its marketplace. Add that marketplace (in the terminal with these commands, or in the desktop app's plugin settings) and install the mod from it:
/plugin marketplace add ezequielcutin/claude-hud-plugin/plugin install neon-hud@claude-hud-plugin/reload-pluginsThis installs the marketplace's latest commit, which may not be the one read here (555ca83cc469). Compare them before you install. /reload-plugins loads it into a session that is already open.
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/ezequielcutin/claude-hud-plugingit -C claude-hud-plugin checkout 555ca83cc4694f2868244435de76e11a3dc145eaclaude plugin validate claude-hud-plugin/plugins/neon-hudclaude --plugin-dir claude-hud-plugin/plugins/neon-hudThe 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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