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prompt-rail

A rail of your session's prompts beside the transcript or above the prompt; hover to read one, click to jump to it.

Code you can checkTerminal + desktopPaneBandToastBoxButtonText

What it does

  • Draws a pane, a band above the prompt, toasts
  • Hooks classic.SessionStart, classic.Stop, prompt.submit, session.receive and 5 more
  • Keeps its own state between turns
  • Starts processes

Good points

  • No network calls
  • Written in TypeScript
  • Has a desktop-specific branch
  • Handles errors

Code to start from

Two kinds: a starter modscode writes from the design above, and the lines of the mod's own code that draw it.

Starter (register.tsx)

register.tsx
import type { Register } from 'claude-code'

// Drawn like prompt-rail by oikon48 (pane, band, toast), as modscode read it from the mod's code:
// https://modscode.com/gallery/oikon48-prompt-rail/
// 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 pane: open it with $.ui.open({ id: 'my-pane', title: "Prompts" })
  on('ui.render', { component: 'Pane', requestId: 'my-pane' }, async ($, e) => {
    const { Box, Button } = $.ui.resolve(e)
    const tick = '…'
    const text = '…'
    return (
      <Box flexDirection="column">
        <Button plain label={` ${tick} ${text}`} />
        <Button plain label={` ${tick} ${text}`} />
        <Button plain label={` ${tick} ${text}`} />
      </Box>
    )
  })

  // the band above the prompt; what else goes there is drawn under it
  on('ui.render', { component: 'AbovePrompt' }, async ($, e, next) => {
    const { Box, Text, Button } = $.ui.resolve(e)
    const card = '…'
    const card2 = '…'
    const card3 = '…'
    const bar = '…'
    const label = '…'
    return (
      <Box flexDirection="column" paddingLeft={2}>
        <Box height={1}>
          <Box display="none">
            <Text wrap="truncate-end">
              {card}
            </Text>
          </Box>
          <Box display="none">
            <Text wrap="truncate-end">
              {card2}
            </Text>
          </Box>
          <Box display="none">
            <Text wrap="truncate-end">
              {card3}
            </Text>
          </Box>
        </Box>
        <Box flexDirection="row">
          <Text dimColor>
            {`‹`}
          </Text>
          <Button plain label={`${bar}`} />
          <Button plain label={`${bar}`} />
          <Button plain label={`${bar}`} />
          <Text dimColor>
            ›
          </Text>
          <Box marginLeft={1}>
            <Text dimColor wrap="truncate-end">
              {label}
            </Text>
          </Box>
        </Box>
        {await next(e)}
      </Box>
    )
  })

  on('session.start', async ($, e, next) => {
    const megabytes = '…'
    const message = '…'
    const deny = '…'
    await $.ui.toast(`the transcript is ${megabytes} MB, too large to read here (${message}); prompts are listed as they are drawn`)
    await $.ui.toast(`the mode was not saved: ${deny}`)
    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/prompt-rail/hooks/index.tsx lines 1293–1355 · Pane
  on('ui.render', { component: 'Pane', requestId: PANE }, async ($, e) => {
    // Read so a moved prompt being read draws the pane again (see MOVED).
    await $.state.get(MOVED)
    const { Box, Text, Button } = $.ui.resolve(e)
    const isRail = e.props.placement === 'dock' && e.surface === 'terminal'
    noteView(e.props.view.agentId)
    const nextColumns = isRail ? e.props.bodyColumns : 0
    if (nextColumns !== railColumns) {
      // The band decides from this whether it carries the cards.
      railColumns = nextColumns
      redrawRailLater($)
    }
    // The rail lists the main conversation's prompts, which a subagent's
    // transcript does not hold, so pressing one there could not scroll to it.
    if (e.props.view.agentId !== undefined) {
      const hasRoom = !isRail || e.props.bodyColumns >= INLINE_REVEAL_MIN_COLUMNS
      return <Text dimColor wrap="truncate-end">{hasRoom ? 'Prompts of the main conversation only' : '·'}</Text>
    }
    if (entries.length === 0) {
      return <Text dimColor>{isRail ? '·' : 'No prompts yet'}</Text>
    }
    const current = currentIndex()
    drawnCurrent = current
    // Docked on the terminal: one row per prompt, its tick and its text, the
    // whole row pressable. Too narrow for text, ticks alone (the band shows it).
    if (isRail) {
      const hasRoom = e.props.bodyColumns >= INLINE_REVEAL_MIN_COLUMNS
      const width = Math.max(4, e.props.bodyColumns - 4)
      return (
        <Box flexDirection="column">
          {entries.map((entry, i) => (
            <Button
              key={`jump-${i}`}
              plain
              dimColor={i !== current}
              label={
                hasRoom
                  ? ` ${tick(i === current, isUnreachable(i))} ${oneLine(entry.text, width)}`
                  : ` ${tick(i === current, isUnreachable(i))} `
              }
              hover={{ scope: `prompt-rail-${i}`, inverse: true, dimColor: false }}
              onPress={() => {}}
            />
          ))}
        </Box>
      )
    }
    // Elsewhere (inline, or a surface with no band for the card): list the text.
    const width = Math.max(8, e.props.bodyColumns - 3)
    return (
      <Box flexDirection="column">
        {entries.map((entry, i) => (
          <Button
            key={`jump-${i}`}
            plain
            dimColor={i !== current}
            label={`${tick(i === current, isUnreachable(i))} ${oneLine(entry.text, width)}`}
            onPress={() => {}}
          />
        ))}
      </Box>
    )
  })
plugins/prompt-rail/hooks/index.tsx lines 1360–1470 · Band
  on('ui.render', { component: 'AbovePrompt' }, async ($, e, next) => {
    await $.state.get(MOVED)
    noteView(e.props.view.agentId)
    // Nothing while the rail is off, a survey holds the band or a subagent's transcript is in view.
    if (mode === 'off' || e.props.hasSurvey || e.props.view.agentId !== undefined || entries.length === 0) return next(e)
    const { Box, Text, Button } = $.ui.resolve(e)
    const cards = (width: number) =>
      entries.map((entry, i) => (
        <Box key={`card-${i}`} display="none" hover={{ scope: `prompt-rail-${i}`, display: 'flex' }}>
          <Text dimColor>{`#${i + 1} `}</Text>
          <Text wrap="truncate-end">{withTurn(entry, width)}</Text>
        </Box>
      ))

    if (mode === 'horizontal') {
      // Two rows: the text line, then the bars beside the prompt. The text line
      // shows the prompt being read, dim, and the hovered one's card painted
      // over it; the bar of the prompt being read is heavy.
      //
      // Only the terminal's grid of cells hides the dim line under a card. A
      // page (the desktop app) paints a card with no background, in a face of
      // its own widths, so the line beneath shows through: there the text line
      // holds the hovered card alone, and the prompt being read is named after
      // the bars. A clicked bar keeps its native ring there beside the hovered
      // one, so the band takes no ring at all (see the band's ui.focus).
      const isCellGrid = e.surface === 'terminal'
      isBandOnGrid = isCellGrid
      const width = Math.max(8, e.props.bodyColumns - 2 - RAIL_INSET)
      const current = currentIndex()
      drawnCurrent = current
      const shownRing = isCellGrid && ringed !== undefined && ringed < entries.length ? ringed : undefined
      // Cells for the bars and their marks: the whole line, or beside the
      // label of the prompt being read, a gap and a few words of it.
      const barCells = isCellGrid ? width : Math.max(MIN_DESKTOP_BARS, width - 1 - MIN_CARD_TEXT)
      // More prompts than cells: a window of bars centered on the prompt being
      // read (the newest when none is known), `‹` and `›` marking what it hides.
      // It stays put while the ring moves: the ring keeps its place in the row,
      // not its bar, so a shifted window would move it to another prompt.
      const isOverflowing = entries.length > barCells
      const capacity = isOverflowing ? barCells - 2 : entries.length
      const center = current >= 0 ? current : entries.length - 1
      const first = Math.min(Math.max(0, center - Math.floor(capacity / 2)), entries.length - capacity)
      const shown = entries.slice(first, first + capacity)
      const hidesAfter = first + capacity < entries.length
      const label = (i: number, room = width) => `#${i + 1} ${oneLine(entries[i]?.text ?? '', room - `#${i + 1} `.length)}`
      // The hovered prompt's card also sums up its turn.
      const card = (i: number) => {
        const entry = entries[i]
        return entry ? `#${i + 1} ${withTurn(entry, width - `#${i + 1} `.length)}` : ''
      }
      const bars = [
        isOverflowing ? <Text dimColor>{first > 0 ? '‹' : ' '}</Text> : null,
        ...shown.map((entry, offset) => {
          const i = first + offset
          return (
            <Button
              key={`jump-${i}`}
              plain
              dimColor={i !== current}
              label={bar(i === current, isUnreachable(i))}
              hover={{ scope: `prompt-rail-${i}`, inverse: true, dimColor: false }}
              autoFocus={(isCellGrid && i === center) || undefined}
              onPress={() => {}}
            />
          )
        }),
        hidesAfter ? <Text dimColor>›</Text> : null,
      ]
      if (!isCellGrid) {
        // Each bar and mark a cell wide, then a gap.
        const room = width - (isOverflowing ? barCells : entries.length) - 1
        return (
          <Box flexDirection="column" paddingLeft={RAIL_INSET}>
            <Box height={1} width={width}>
              {entries.map((_, i) => (
                <Box key={`card-${i}`} display="none" hover={{ scope: `prompt-rail-${i}`, display: 'flex' }}>
                  <Text wrap="truncate-end">{card(i)}</Text>
                </Box>
              ))}
            </Box>
            <Box flexDirection="row">
              {bars}
              {/* With no prompt known on screen, the newest: bars alone read as a broken rail. */}
              <Box marginLeft={1}>
                <Text dimColor wrap="truncate-end">{label(center, room)}</Text>
              </Box>
            </Box>
          </Box>
        )
      }
      return (
        <Box flexDirection="column" paddingLeft={RAIL_INSET}>
          <Box height={1} width={width}>
            {/* With no prompt known on screen, the newest: an empty line reads as a broken rail. */}
            {shownRing === undefined ? <Text dimColor wrap="truncate-end">{label(center)}</Text> : <Text wrap="truncate-end">{padTo(card(shownRing), width)}</Text>}
            {entries.map((_, i) => (
              <Box key={`card-${i}`} position="absolute" top={0} left={0} display="none" hover={{ scope: `prompt-rail-${i}`, display: 'flex' }}>
                <Text wrap="truncate-end">{padTo(card(i), width)}</Text>
              </Box>
            ))}
          </Box>
          <Box flexDirection="row">{bars}</Box>
        </Box>
      )
    }

    if (railColumns > 0 && railColumns < INLINE_REVEAL_MIN_COLUMNS) {
      return <Box flexDirection="column">{cards(Math.max(8, e.props.bodyColumns - 8))}</Box>
    }
    return next(e)
  })
Licence text (MIT)
MIT License

Copyright (c) 2026 oikon48

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
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SOFTWARE.

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The design, read from code

Drawn from the mod's source at the commit read, not from a run: a list is drawn three times, a condition takes its first branch that draws in the desktop app, and a value only the run time knows is shown as a made-up sample (dotted underline) or left out. Colours and type are this site's.

What its code shows

Read from the source at commit 2ac50fb87fc4 on 2026-10-06. 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 readEvery module hooks/hooks.json names was read.plugins/prompt-rail/hooks/index.tsx
ParsesEvery file parses as TypeScript or JavaScript.1 files parsed
All its code is in the modEvery import is a file of the mod or the engine's own module; no packages, no require.all its code is in the mod
ReadableNo 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 openNetwork 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 drawsThe 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 lineWhether 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 WindowsWhether every program it starts through $.process exists on Windows (tail, date, open, osascript, /usr/… do not).plugins/prompt-rail/hooks/index.tsx:459 tail (not on Windows)
NetworkWhether every fetch names its https host in the code.no network
ProgramsWhether every program it starts is named in the code and is not a shell, an interpreter or a network tool.tail
Reads and sendsWhether it both reads files or environment variables and reaches the network.reaches no network
Keys in the sourceWhether the source holds what looks like an API key or a private key.no keys in the source
LicenceAn 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

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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 oikon48/prompt-rail
/plugin install prompt-rail@oikon48

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