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hud
A live usage cockpit above the prompt: context, plan limits with pace forecasts, and cost by day, week and month, in a one-line glance that expands into tabs and a dashboard pane
What it does
- Draws a band above the prompt, a pane, toasts
- Adds /hud
- Watches tool calls
- Hooks config.set, session.measure, session.start, turn.complete and 1 more
- Keeps its own state between turns
Good points
- No network calls
- Starts no processes
- Written in TypeScript
- Has a desktop-specific branch
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 hud by Samarth Rayar (pane, band, toast), as ModsCode read it from the mod's code:
// https://modscode.com/claude-mods/mods/samarth2001-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, Button } = $.ui.resolve(e)
return (
<Box flexDirection="column">
<Box>
<Box alignItems="center" width="100%" columnGap={3}>
<Box flexGrow={1} />
<Box flexShrink={0} alignItems="center" columnGap={1}>
<Button label="⤢" plain dimColor />
<Button label="▴" plain />
</Box>
</Box>
</Box>
{await next(e)}
</Box>
)
})
// the pane: open it with $.ui.open({ id: 'my-pane', title: "HUD" })
on('ui.render', { component: 'Pane', requestId: 'my-pane' }, async ($, e) => {
const { Box, Button, Text } = $.ui.resolve(e)
return (
<Box flexDirection="column" paddingX={2} paddingY={0}>
<Box alignItems="center" width="100%" columnGap={3}>
<Box flexGrow={1} />
<Box flexShrink={0} alignItems="center" columnGap={1}>
<Button label="⤢" plain dimColor />
<Button label="▴" plain />
</Box>
</Box>
<Box marginTop={1} marginBottom={0}>
<Text color="#B4A7F5" bold>
Context
</Text>
<Text dimColor>
{" how full the conversation window is"}
</Text>
</Box>
<Box marginTop={1} marginBottom={0}>
<Text color="#B4A7F5" bold>
Plan limits
</Text>
<Text dimColor>
{" your subscription windows, and how fast you are using them"}
</Text>
</Box>
<Box marginTop={1} marginBottom={0}>
<Text color="#B4A7F5" bold>
Spend
</Text>
<Text dimColor>
{" sessions with HUD on this machine; not a bill"}
</Text>
</Box>
<Box marginTop={1} marginBottom={0}>
<Text color="#B4A7F5" bold>
Turns
</Text>
<Text dimColor>
{" each response, how long it took and what it used"}
</Text>
</Box>
</Box>
)
})
on('session.start', async ($, e, next) => {
const LIMIT_LABELS = '…'
const percentUsed = '…'
const resets = '…'
await $.ui.toast(`HUD: ${LIMIT_LABELS} limit at ${percentUsed}%${resets}`)
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/hud/hooks/register.tsx lines 334–354 · Band
on('ui.render', { component: 'AbovePrompt' }, async ($, e, next) => {
const snap = await read($, snapshot)
const v = await read($, view)
if (e.props.hasSurvey || snap === null || v.mode === 'hidden' || e.props.maxRows < 1) return next(e)
const s = { ui: $.ui.resolve(e), isTerminal: e.surface === 'terminal', now: await $.clock.now() }
if (s.isTerminal) lastTerminalDraw = s.now
const { Box } = s.ui
const d = await data($, snap)
d.live = { ...d.live, isWorking: d.live.isWorking || e.props.isWorking }
// The terminal draws its own [-] in the band's top-right corner; leave it room.
const width = e.props.bodyColumns - (s.isTerminal ? 4 : 0)
const act = actions($)
const rows = v.mode === 'detail' && e.props.maxRows >= 2 ? drawer(s, d, width, act).slice(0, e.props.maxRows - 1) : []
return (
<Box flexDirection="column">
<Box width={width}>{glance(s, d, width, act)}</Box>
{rows}
</Box>
)
})plugins/hud/hooks/draw.tsx lines 142–301 · Band
export function glance(s: Surface, d: Data, width: number, actions: Actions, isPane = false): RenderElement {
const { Box, Button, Text } = s.ui
const { snap, live, now } = d
// Claude's own spinner and clay say what Claude is doing in the terminal;
// the desktop keeps its vector heartbeat in the status hue.
const statusHue: Hue = s.isTerminal ? 'claude' : 'status'
const txt = (hue: Hue, text: string, style: { dim?: boolean; bold?: boolean; color?: string } = {}) => (
<Text color={style.color} bold={style.bold} dimColor={style.dim}>{text}</Text>
)
// A chip: its icon in the hue, then whatever the metric shows, flat on the
// band so the row stays one line tall. The icon is a glyph in the terminal
// and a lit vector tile elsewhere. With no name to press (narrow rows) the
// terminal's glyph opens the drawer, and elsewhere the value does.
const chip = (key: string, hue: Hue, glyph: string, body: RenderElement[], press?: { tab: Tab; id: string }, kind?: IconKind, percent?: number) => {
const c = tone(d, hue)
const mark = !s.isTerminal && kind
? icon(s, kind, c.fg, percent)
: press ? label(s, d, actions, press.tab, press.id, glyph) : <Text color={c.fg}>{glyph}</Text>
return (
<Box key={`chip-${key}`} flexShrink={0} alignItems="center">
{mark}
<Text> </Text>
{body}
</Box>
)
}
// A meter: a vector capsule on the desktop, a row of segments in the terminal.
const meterOf = (key: string, unit: 'context' | 'limits', to: number, from: number | undefined, cols: number, hue: Hue, mark?: number) => {
const c = tone(d, hue)
if (s.isTerminal) return bar(s, key, sliding(d, unit, to, from), cols, mark, c.track)
return capsule(s, key, to, cols, mark, isFlashing(d, unit) ? from : undefined, now - (d.live.flash[unit] - FLASH_MS))
}
const plan = (tier: Tier) => {
const chips: Chip[] = []
const meter = METER[tier]
const named = tier === 'full' || tier === 'mid'
// What Claude is doing: a spinner and a shimmer while it works, else idle.
if (live.isWorking) {
const frame = Math.floor(now / FRAME_MS)
const clock = formatDuration(now - live.turnStartedAt)
const tools = named && live.toolsThisTurn > 0 ? ` · ${live.toolsThisTurn} tool${live.toolsThisTurn === 1 ? '' : 's'}` : ''
const word = named ? 'working' : ''
chips.push({
key: 'status', cols: 2 + (word ? word.length + 1 : 0) + clock.length + tools.length,
draw: () => {
const c = tone(d, statusHue)
// A highlight sweeps across the word, as on Claude's own spinner line.
const head = (frame % (word.length + 8)) - 3
const bright = mix(c.fg, d.isLight ? '#000000' : '#FFFFFF', 0.6)
const letters = [...word].map((ch, i) => (
<Text key={`shimmer-${i}`} color={mix(c.fg, bright, Math.max(0, 1 - Math.abs(i - head) / 2.5))}>{ch}</Text>
))
const motion = s.isTerminal ? letters : [heartbeat(s, 5, c.fg)]
return chip('status', statusHue, SPINNER[frame % SPINNER.length] ?? '✻', [
...motion, ...(word ? [txt(statusHue, ' ')] : []),
txt(statusHue, clock, { bold: true, color: c.fg }),
...(tools ? [txt(statusHue, tools, { dim: true })] : []),
], undefined, 'working')
},
})
} else {
chips.push({
key: 'status', cols: 2 + 4,
draw: () => chip('status', statusHue, '✻', [label(s, d, actions, 'turns', 'idle', 'idle')], undefined, 'idle'),
})
}
// Context.
{
const p = snap.percent
const value = p === undefined ? '—' : `${p}%`
const hasMeter = meter > 0 && p !== undefined
chips.push({
key: 'ctx', cols: 2 + (named ? 8 : 0) + (hasMeter ? meter + 1 : 0) + value.length,
draw: () => {
const shown = p === undefined
? txt('context', value, { dim: true })
: txt('context', value, { bold: true, color: glow(d, 'context', levelColor(p)) })
return chip('ctx', 'context', pie(p ?? 0), [
...(named ? [label(s, d, actions, 'context', 'ctx', 'context'), txt('context', ' ')] : []),
...(hasMeter ? [meterOf('bar-ctx', 'context', p, live.previous.percent, meter, 'context'), txt('context', ' ')] : []),
!named && !s.isTerminal ? label(s, d, actions, 'context', 'ctx', value) : shown,
], named ? undefined : { tab: 'context', id: 'ctx' }, 'context', p ?? 0)
},
})
}
// Plan limits.
for (const limit of snap.limits) {
const hue: Hue = limit.kind === 'seven_day' ? 'seven_day' : 'five_hour'
const p = pace(limit, now)
const name = limitName(limit.kind, tier === 'full')
const value = `${Math.round(limit.percentUsed)}%`
const showReset = limit.resetsAt !== undefined && (tier === 'full' || (tier === 'mid' && limit.kind === 'five_hour'))
const reset = showReset ? formatSpan(Date.parse(limit.resetsAt as string) - now) : ''
const id = limit.kind === 'seven_day' ? '7d' : limit.kind === 'five_hour' ? '5h' : limit.kind
chips.push({
key: `limit-${limit.kind}`,
cols: 2 + (named ? name.length + 1 : 0) + (meter ? meter + 1 : 0) + value.length + (reset ? 5 + reset.length : 0),
draw: () => {
return chip(`limit-${limit.kind}`, hue, limit.kind === 'seven_day' ? '▦' : '◷', [
...(named ? [label(s, d, actions, 'limits', id, name), txt(hue, ' ')] : []),
...(meter ? [meterOf(`bar-${limit.kind}`, 'limits', limit.percentUsed, live.previous.limits[limit.kind], meter, hue, p?.expected), txt(hue, ' ')] : []),
!named && !s.isTerminal ? label(s, d, actions, 'limits', id, value) : txt(hue, value, { bold: true, color: glow(d, 'limits', paceColor(limit, p)) }),
...(reset ? [txt(hue, ' │ ', { dim: true }), txt(hue, `↻ ${reset}`, { dim: true })] : []),
], named ? undefined : { tab: 'limits', id }, limit.kind === 'seven_day' ? 'seven_day' : 'five_hour')
},
})
}
// Tokens this session, when there's room: in and out.
const tk = live.tokens
const tokIn = tk.input + tk.cacheRead + tk.cacheWrite
if (tier === 'full' && tokIn + tk.output > 0) {
chips.push({
key: 'tokens', cols: (s.isTerminal ? 0 : 2) + `↑ ${formatTokens(tokIn)} ↓ ${formatTokens(tk.output)}`.length,
draw: () => {
const c = tone(d, 'tokens')
return (
<Box key="chip-tokens" flexShrink={0} alignItems="center">
{s.isTerminal ? null : icon(s, 'tokens', c.fg)}
{s.isTerminal ? null : <Text> </Text>}
<Text color={c.fg}>↑ </Text>{txt('tokens', formatTokens(tokIn), { bold: true })}
<Text color={c.fg}> ↓ </Text>{txt('tokens', formatTokens(tk.output), { bold: true })}
</Box>
)
},
})
}
// Money: this session, then this month across sessions.
if (snap.usd !== undefined) {
const spend = summarize(d.ledger, d.today)
const value = formatUsd(snap.usd)
const month = named ? `${spend.monthLabel} ${formatUsd(spend.month)}` : ''
chips.push({
key: 'cost', cols: 2 + (named ? 6 : 0) + value.length + (month ? 3 + month.length : 0),
draw: () => chip('cost', 'cost', '$', [
...(named ? [label(s, d, actions, 'cost', 'cost', 'spent'), txt('cost', ' ')] : []),
!named && !s.isTerminal ? label(s, d, actions, 'cost', 'cost', value) : txt('cost', value, { bold: true, color: glow(d, 'cost', tone(d, 'cost').fg) }),
...(month ? [txt('cost', ' │ ', { dim: true }), txt('cost', month, { dim: true })] : []),
], named || !s.isTerminal ? undefined : { tab: 'cost', id: 'cost' }, 'cost'),
})
}
const controls = isPane ? 0 : named ? 6 : 3
// Off the terminal an icon is a tile two cells wide, not a one-cell glyph.
const extra = s.isTerminal ? 0 : 1
const need = chips.reduce((a, x) => a + x.cols + extra, 0) + chips.length * GAP + controls
return { chips, named, fits: need <= width }
}
const { chips, named } = TIERS.map(plan).find(x => x.fits) ?? plan('tiny')
const isOpen = d.view.mode === 'detail'
// The items sit left on an even rhythm; the controls keep to the right edge.
return (
<Box key="glance" alignItems="center" width="100%" columnGap={GAP}>plugins/hud/hooks/register.tsx lines 356–362 · Pane
on('ui.render', { component: 'Pane', requestId: PANE }, async ($, e) => {
const s = { ui: $.ui.resolve(e), isTerminal: e.surface === 'terminal', now: await $.clock.now() }
if (s.isTerminal) lastTerminalDraw = s.now
const snap = (await read($, snapshot)) ?? { window: 0, limits: [] }
const d = await data($, snap)
return dashboard(s, d, e.props.bodyColumns, actions($))
})plugins/hud/hooks/draw.tsx lines 580–602 · Pane
export function dashboard(s: Surface, d: Data, width: number, actions: Actions): RenderElement {
const { Box, Text } = s.ui
const inner = Math.max(40, width - 4)
const heading = (key: string, text: string, hint: string) => (
<Box key={key} marginTop={1} marginBottom={0}>
<Text color={ACCENT} bold>{text}</Text>
<Text dimColor>{` ${hint}`}</Text>
</Box>
)
return (
<Box flexDirection="column" paddingX={2} paddingY={s.isTerminal ? 0 : 1}>
{glance(s, d, inner, actions, true)}
{heading('h-context', 'Context', 'how full the conversation window is')}
{section(s, d, 'context', inner, actions, true)}
{heading('h-limits', 'Plan limits', 'your subscription windows, and how fast you are using them')}
{section(s, d, 'limits', inner, actions, true)}
{heading('h-cost', 'Spend', 'sessions with HUD on this machine; not a bill')}
{section(s, d, 'cost', inner, actions, true)}
{heading('h-turns', 'Turns', 'each response, how long it took and what it used')}
{section(s, d, 'turns', inner, actions, true)}
</Box>
)
}Licence text (MIT)
MIT License Copyright (c) 2026 Samarth Rayar 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
tool callsremembers
What its code shows
Read from the source at commit f3285f8c1b9a. 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/hud/hooks/register.tsx |
| Parses | Every file parses as TypeScript or JavaScript.4 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.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).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.starts no programs |
| 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).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.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: config.set, command.run (hud), tool.call · also: session.start, session.measure, turn.start, turn.complete (+1) · 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.reads no files, environment variables, settings or transcript |
| 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.
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 Samarth2001/claude-plugins/plugin install hud@samarth/reload-pluginsThis installs the marketplace's latest commit, which may not be the one read here (f3285f8c1b9a). 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/Samarth2001/claude-pluginsgit -C claude-plugins checkout f3285f8c1b9a44793e5d9e9febb4043baf1b50c6claude plugin validate claude-plugins/plugins/hudclaude --plugin-dir claude-plugins/plugins/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.
Ask Claude about it
With the ModsCode connector added, Claude can read this mod's code and what it reaches, and build on them. Ask it like this:
Read the ModsCode mod "samarth2001-hud" with its code and make me one like itSearch them from Claude: the MCP connector
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