telltale
A live status band for Claude Code — multiple workflows at a glance, built on function hooks
What it does
- Draws a band above the prompt, a pane
- Adds /telltale
- Hooks session.receive, session.start, turn.complete, turn.start and 2 more
- Keeps its own state between turns
- Calls the network
Good points
- Starts no processes
- Written in TypeScript
- Handles errors
- Writes no files
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)
import type { Register } from 'claude-code'
// Drawn like telltale by ryu111 (pane, band), as modscode read it from the mod's code:
// https://modscode.com/gallery/ryu111-telltale/
// 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, Client } = $.ui.resolve(e)
return (
<Box flexDirection="column">
<Client module="./band.tsx" />
{await next(e)}
</Box>
)
})
// the pane: open it with $.ui.open({ id: 'my-pane', title: "telltale" })
on('ui.render', { component: 'Pane', requestId: 'my-pane' }, async ($, e) => {
const { Client } = $.ui.resolve(e)
return (
<Client module="./band.tsx" />
)
})
}
The mod's own code
Shown under the mod's licence (MIT); its text is below. Keep the notice if you copy these lines.
plugins/telltale/hooks/register.tsx lines 442–466 · Band
on("ui.render", { component: "AbovePrompt" }, async ($, e, next) => {
if (headless) return next(e);
if (e.props.hasSurvey) return next(e);
// Ticket 27 (SDD §2.8 "換邊三態"): no `agents` panel means no Pane was
// ever opened, so this site behaves as `bottom` always did — draws
// everything. With `agents` live, only `bottom`/`both` win outright;
// auto/unset/right (ticket 29 "換邊 auto 退路", ticket 30 "right 也走退路")
// all draw everything here until the Pane's own `ui.render` has actually
// reached this session (`paneSeen`), then yield — the real-machine
// fallback for a host that opens the Pane but never renders it.
const hasAgents = active.some((p) => p.id === "agents");
const stored = hasAgents ? ((await $.store.get("edge.agents")) as "auto" | "right" | "bottom" | "both" | undefined) : "bottom";
const edge = effectiveEdge(stored, paneSeen);
if (edge === "right") return next(e);
const hasOthers = active.some((p) => p.id !== "agents");
if (edge === "both" && !hasOthers) return next(e);
const viewportColumns = (e.viewport as { columns?: number } | undefined)?.columns;
const only = edge === "both" ? "others" : undefined;
const props = await buildBandProps(active, $, e.props.maxRows as number, viewportColumns, "inline", liveKey, only);
const { Client } = $.ui.resolve(e);
return <Client key="band" module="./band.tsx" props={props} />;
});plugins/telltale/hooks/register.tsx lines 476–513 · Pane
on("ui.render", { component: "Pane" }, async ($, e, next) => {
if (headless) return next(e);
// Ticket 27: an explicit `bottom` is the one stored value with no Pane
// to draw into (session.start never opened it), so this site yields.
// Ticket 29 / 30: any other stored value (including auto/unset/right)
// means the Pane really is rendering right now — mark `paneSeen` below
// so the AbovePrompt fallback can yield to it from here on.
const hasAgents = active.some((p) => p.id === "agents");
const stored = hasAgents ? ((await $.store.get("edge.agents")) as "auto" | "right" | "bottom" | "both" | undefined) : "right";
if (stored === "bottom") return next(e);
if (!paneSeen) {
paneSeen = true;
// First sighting only (SDD §2.8): AbovePrompt was drawing the whole
// band under the "Pane hasn't shown up yet" fallback — tell it to
// redraw now that it can yield to this Pane.
$.ui.invalidate("ui.render");
}
const edge = effectiveEdge(stored, paneSeen);
const viewportColumns = (e.viewport as { columns?: number } | undefined)?.columns;
// Ticket 24: `Pane.placement` (claude-code.d.ts, 2.1.274) — `"dock"` on
// a wide-enough terminal, `"inline"` when the engine floats it above
// the prompt instead; drives the placement-derived style default.
const placement = ((e.props as { placement?: "dock" | "inline" } | undefined)?.placement ?? "dock") as "dock" | "inline";
const only = edge === "both" ? "agents" : undefined;
// Ticket 32 (SDD §2.8 "Pane 用滿"): the Pane's own row budget, not
// `BAND_ROWS_MAX` — the engine tells this site exactly how many rows
// its body has (`scroll.bodyRows`); missing it (an old harness) falls
// back to the old ceiling. Used as both `maxRows` and `cap` so a Pane
// taller than `BAND_ROWS_MAX` actually fills, and `full` panels want
// the rest of it.
const bodyRows = ((e.props as { scroll?: { bodyRows?: number } } | undefined)?.scroll?.bodyRows) ?? BAND_ROWS_MAX;
const props = await buildBandProps(active, $, bodyRows, viewportColumns, placement, liveKey, only, bodyRows);
const { Client } = $.ui.resolve(e);
return <Client key="band" module="./band.tsx" props={props} />;
});Licence text (MIT)
MIT License Copyright (c) 2026 ryu111 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.
What its code calls
networkenv varsdrives Clauderemembers
What its code shows
Read from the source at commit 0a911a145868 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 read | Every module hooks/hooks.json names was read.plugins/telltale/hooks/register.tsx |
| Parses | Every file parses as TypeScript or JavaScript.13 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 files or environment variables and reaches the network.reaches no 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 |
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 the code below (or run claude plugin validate . in its folder), weigh what it reaches, and install the commit you read.
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 ryu111/telltale/plugin install telltale@telltaleThis installs the marketplace's latest commit, which may not be the one read here (0a911a145868). Compare them before you install.
Ask Claude about it
With the modscode connector added, Claude can read this design, what its code reaches and its code, and build on them. Ask it like this:
Read the modscode design "ryu111-telltale" with its code and make me a pane like itSearch them from Claude: the MCP connector
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