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agent-board

Animated pixel agents above the prompt: this session's subagents and teammates plus your other Claude sessions, with what each is doing.

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v0.1.0MITupdated 2026-10-19CH4RL3I/agent-board
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README

agent-board

A Claude Code mod that draws small animated pixel sprites above the prompt: one for each subagent or teammate of the current session, and one for each of your other Claude sessions that is busy or waiting. You see at a glance who is working and who needs you.

What it shows

Each sprite has a label and a state line underneath:

StateMeaningLook
workingbusy right nowsprite bobs up and down, blue label
waiting for youidle, your turnyellow label and a yellow corner mark
donefinished (stays for one minute)dimmed sprite, green mark
failedfailed or killed (stays for one minute)red mark

Sprite types:

  • conductor: this session, shown while it has subagents or teammates
  • builder: a subagent
  • scout: a read-only style subagent (explore, plan, guide, review, validator types)
  • mate: a teammate
  • session: another Claude Code CLI session running on your machine

Sessions that have been idle for more than 30 minutes are not drawn, only counted ("N other sessions idle"). If the row does not fit your terminal width, the rest is counted as "+N more on the board".

Install

In a Claude Code terminal session:

/plugin install agent-board --marketplace CH4RL3I/agent-board

Answer y to add the marketplace, then pick a scope.

Use

  • /agent-board toggles the board on and off.
  • Optional setting extraSessionDirs (in /config): comma-separated extra directories that hold Claude session files. Useful if you keep sessions somewhere unusual. ~/.claude/sessions and every ~/.claude-*/sessions (for example a second profile with its own config dir) are scanned automatically.

How it reads sessions

  • Subagents and teammates of the current session come from Claude Code's own agent list.
  • Other sessions are found by reading the JSON files in ~/.claude/sessions (and the other directories above), then checking with ps that the process is still alive.
  • Everything is local. The mod makes no network requests and writes nothing to disk. It only reads session files and runs ps.
  • The label is the session's name if it has one, else its tmux session name, else its working directory's folder name. Labels are shown only in your own terminal.

Requirements

  • Claude Code with mod support (hooks modules, claude plugin commands).
  • The terminal surface. The board is drawn with half-block characters and a raster element; other surfaces (desktop, IDE) show nothing.
  • ps on the PATH (macOS or Linux).

Limits

  • Session files are an internal Claude Code format; a future release may change them and break detection of other sessions.
  • Only CLI sessions (entrypoint: cli) are listed.
  • At most 8 sprites are drawn, fewer on narrow terminals.
  • The board refreshes every 3 seconds; the bob animation runs at about 3 frames per second.

Develop

claude plugin validate .
claude plugin test .
claude --plugin-dir .

License

MIT, see LICENSE.

Source 2 files
hooks/register.tsx 282 lines
1import { atom, read, update } from 'claude-code'
2import type { Register } from 'claude-code'
3
4import type { Board, Entry, Mood, Sprite } from '../types'
5
6// Agent board: pixel agents above the prompt, one per subagent or teammate of
7// this session and one per other Claude session that is working or waiting.
8// Sprites are 16x10 pixels drawn as 16x5 cells with half blocks; working
9// agents bob, which is the only animation.
10
11const board = atom({ plugin: 'agent-board', key: 'board' } as const, { entries: [], resting: 0 } as Board)
12const isHidden = atom({ plugin: 'agent-board', key: 'isHidden' } as const, false)
13
14const COLS = 16
15const ROWS = 5
16const SLOT = 18
17const MAX_SHOWN = 8
18const WAITING_FOR_MS = 30 * 60 * 1000
19const DEFAULT = 0x01000000
20
21// One char per pixel; '.' is transparent.
22const MAPS: Record<Sprite, { pal: Record<string, number>; px: string[] }> = {
23  conductor: {
24    pal: { o: 0xe07a52, k: 0x15161d },
25    px: ['...oooooooo.....', '...oooooooo.....', '...oooookoo.....', 'oooooooookoooo..', 'oooooooooooooo..', '..oooooooooo....', '..oo......oo....', '................'],
26  },
27  builder: {
28    pal: { b: 0x6aa6ff, k: 0x15161d },
29    px: ['...bbbbbbbbbb...', '...bkbbbbbbkb...', '.bbbbbbbbbbbbbb.', '.bbbbbbbbbbbbbb.', '...bbbbbbbbbb...', '...b.b....b.b...', '...b.b....b.b...', '................'],
30  },
31  scout: {
32    pal: { c: 0x5fe0e0, k: 0x15161d, w: 0xf1ede4 },
33    px: ['....cccccccc....', '..cccwwwwwwccc..', '..ccwwkwwkwwcc..', '..cccwwwwwwccc..', '....cccccccc....', '...cc......cc...', '..cc........cc..', '................'],
34  },
35  mate: {
36    pal: { y: 0xffd23f, r: 0xef3f78, s: 0xf4dcc0, k: 0x15161d },
37    px: ['......yyyy......', '...rrryyyyrrr...', '..rrrrrrrrrrrr..', '..rssssssssssr..', '..rsskssssksr...', '..rssssssssssr..', '...rrrrrrrrrr...', '................'],
38  },
39  session: {
40    pal: { p: 0xa58cff, k: 0x15161d },
41    px: ['................', '....pppppppp....', '...pppppppppp...', '...ppkppppkpp...', '...pppppppppp...', '....pppppppp....', '....p..pp..p....', '................'],
42  },
43}
44
45const DIM = 0x55566a
46
47function pixelGrid(sprite: Sprite, lift: number, mood: Mood): number[][] {
48  const { pal, px } = MAPS[sprite]
49  const grid: number[][] = Array.from({ length: ROWS * 2 }, () => Array(COLS).fill(-1))
50  const top = 2 - lift
51  px.forEach((row, y) => {
52    for (let x = 0; x < COLS; x += 1) {
53      const c = pal[row[x]]
54      if (c !== undefined) grid[top + y][x] = mood === 'done' ? DIM : c
55    }
56  })
57  // a status pixel pair in the top-right corner: yellow = waiting for you, green = done, red = failed
58  const mark = mood === 'waiting' ? 0xffd23f : mood === 'done' ? 0x61d68a : mood === 'failed' ? 0xef3f78 : -1
59  if (mark !== -1) {
60    grid[0][14] = mark
61    grid[0][15] = mark
62    grid[1][14] = mark
63    grid[1][15] = mark
64  }
65  return grid
66}
67
68const B64 = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/'
69function toBase64(bytes: Uint8Array): string {
70  let out = ''
71  for (let i = 0; i < bytes.length; i += 3) {
72    const a = bytes[i]
73    const b = i + 1 < bytes.length ? bytes[i + 1] : 0
74    const c = i + 2 < bytes.length ? bytes[i + 2] : 0
75    const n = (a << 16) | (b << 8) | c
76    out += B64[(n >> 18) & 63] + B64[(n >> 12) & 63]
77    out += i + 1 < bytes.length ? B64[(n >> 6) & 63] : '='
78    out += i + 2 < bytes.length ? B64[n & 63] : '='
79  }
80  return out
81}
82
83export function cells(sprite: Sprite, lift: number, mood: Mood): string {
84  const grid = pixelGrid(sprite, lift, mood)
85  const words = new Uint32Array(COLS * ROWS * 3)
86  for (let r = 0; r < ROWS; r += 1) {
87    for (let x = 0; x < COLS; x += 1) {
88      const upper = grid[r * 2][x]
89      const lower = grid[r * 2 + 1][x]
90      const i = (r * COLS + x) * 3
91      if (upper === -1 && lower === -1) {
92        words.set([0x20, DEFAULT, DEFAULT], i)
93      } else if (upper === -1) {
94        words.set([0x2584, lower, DEFAULT], i)
95      } else {
96        words.set([0x2580, upper, lower === -1 ? DEFAULT : lower], i)
97      }
98    }
99  }
100  return toBase64(new Uint8Array(words.buffer))
101}
102
103function short(text: string, n = SLOT - 2): string {
104  const t = text.replace(/\s+/g, ' ').trim()
105  return t.length > n ? `${t.slice(0, n - 1)}…` : t
106}
107
108function moodOf(status: string): Mood {
109  if (status === 'running' || status === 'pending') return 'working'
110  if (status === 'waiting' || status === 'idle') return 'waiting'
111  if (status === 'failed' || status === 'killed') return 'failed'
112  return 'done'
113}
114
115function spriteOf(type: string, isTeammate: boolean): Sprite {
116  if (isTeammate) return 'mate'
117  if (/explore|plan|guide|review|validator/i.test(type)) return 'scout'
118  return 'builder'
119}
120
121type SessionFile = { pid?: number; sessionId?: string; status?: string; entrypoint?: string; statusUpdatedAt?: number; tmux?: string; name?: string; cwd?: string }
122
123const ctx = { home: '', ownId: '', bandId: '', frame: 0, isMainWorking: false, extraDirs: [] as string[], doneAt: new Map<string, number>() }
124
125// Session directories to read: ~/.claude/sessions, every ~/.claude-*/sessions
126// (a second profile kept in its own config dir), and any directories listed in
127// the extraSessionDirs option.
128export async function sessionDirs($: any): Promise<string[]> {
129  const dirs = [`${ctx.home}/.claude/sessions`]
130  try {
131    for (const f of await $.fs.list(ctx.home)) {
132      if (f.kind === 'dir' && /^\.claude-.+/.test(f.name)) dirs.push(`${ctx.home}/${f.name}/sessions`)
133    }
134  } catch {
135    // home not listable; the default directory still works
136  }
137  for (const d of ctx.extraDirs) dirs.push(d.startsWith('~/') ? `${ctx.home}${d.slice(1)}` : d)
138  return [...new Set(dirs)]
139}
140
141async function sessions($: any): Promise<{ shown: Entry[]; resting: number }> {
142  const found: SessionFile[] = []
143  for (const dir of await sessionDirs($)) {
144    if (!(await $.fs.exists(dir))) continue
145    for (const f of await $.fs.list(dir)) {
146      if (f.kind !== 'file' || !f.name.endsWith('.json')) continue
147      try {
148        found.push(JSON.parse((await $.fs.read(`${dir}/${f.name}`)) as string))
149      } catch {
150        // a file being rewritten right now; next poll reads it
151      }
152    }
153  }
154  const mine = found.filter(s => s.entrypoint === 'cli' && s.sessionId !== ctx.ownId && typeof s.pid === 'number')
155  if (mine.length === 0) return { shown: [], resting: 0 }
156  const ps = await $.process.run(['ps', '-o', 'pid=', '-p', mine.map(s => s.pid).join(',')], { timeoutMs: 3000 })
157  const alive = new Set(ps.stdout.split('\n').map((l: string) => Number(l.trim())).filter(Boolean))
158  const now = await $.clock.now()
159  const seen = new Set<string>()
160  const shown: Entry[] = []
161  let resting = 0
162  for (const s of mine) {
163    if (!alive.has(s.pid as number) || !s.sessionId || seen.has(s.sessionId)) continue
164    seen.add(s.sessionId)
165    // the session's own name if it has one, else its tmux session, else the folder it runs in
166    const tmuxName = (s.tmux ?? '').split(':')[0]
167    const label = short(s.name || tmuxName || (s.cwd ?? '').split('/').pop() || 'session')
168    if (s.status === 'busy') {
169      shown.push({ id: s.sessionId, label, mood: 'working', sprite: 'session' })
170    } else if (now - (s.statusUpdatedAt ?? 0) < WAITING_FOR_MS) {
171      shown.push({ id: s.sessionId, label, mood: 'waiting', sprite: 'session' })
172    } else {
173      resting += 1
174    }
175  }
176  return { shown, resting }
177}
178
179async function refresh($: any) {
180  const now = await $.clock.now()
181  const agents = await $.agent.list()
182  const own: Entry[] = []
183  for (const a of agents) {
184    const mood = moodOf(a.status)
185    if (mood === 'done' || mood === 'failed') {
186      // keep a finished agent on the board for a minute, then let it go
187      const at = ctx.doneAt.get(a.id) ?? now
188      ctx.doneAt.set(a.id, at)
189      if (now - at > 60_000) continue
190    }
191    own.push({ id: a.id, label: short(a.name ?? a.description ?? a.type), mood, sprite: spriteOf(a.type, Boolean(a.teammateId)) })
192  }
193  const { shown, resting } = await sessions($)
194  const entries: Entry[] = []
195  if (own.length > 0) {
196    entries.push({ id: 'main', label: '♪ this session', mood: ctx.isMainWorking ? 'working' : 'waiting', sprite: 'conductor' })
197  }
198  entries.push(...own, ...shown)
199  const before = await read($, board)
200  const same = JSON.stringify(before) === JSON.stringify({ entries, resting })
201  if (!same) await update($, board, () => ({ entries, resting }))
202}
203
204async function animate($: any) {
205  if (!ctx.bandId || (await read($, isHidden))) return
206  const { entries } = await read($, board)
207  if (!entries.some(x => x.mood === 'working')) return
208  ctx.frame = 1 - ctx.frame
209  for (const x of entries.slice(0, MAX_SHOWN)) {
210    if (x.mood !== 'working') continue
211    void $.ui.blit({ requestId: ctx.bandId, key: `s-${x.id}`, cells: cells(x.sprite, ctx.frame, x.mood) })
212  }
213}
214
215export const register: Register = (on, options) => {
216  const raw = typeof options?.extraSessionDirs === 'string' ? options.extraSessionDirs : ''
217  ctx.extraDirs = raw.split(',').map(x => x.trim()).filter(Boolean)
218
219  on('session.start', async ($, e, next) => {
220    const r = await $.process.run(['/bin/sh', '-c', 'printf %s "$HOME"'], { timeoutMs: 3000 })
221    ctx.home = r.stdout.trim()
222    ctx.ownId = await $.session.id()
223    await $.command.register({ name: 'agent-board', description: 'Show or hide the pixel agent board above the prompt' })
224    $.clock.every(3000, () => {
225      void refresh($)
226    })
227    // the bob: only working agents move, two frames
228    $.clock.every(350, () => {
229      void animate($)
230    })
231    void refresh($)
232    return next(e)
233  })
234
235  on('turn.start', async ($, e, next) => {
236    if (!e.agentId) ctx.isMainWorking = true
237    return next(e)
238  })
239
240  on('turn.complete', async ($, e, next) => {
241    if (!e.agentId) ctx.isMainWorking = false
242    void refresh($)
243    return next(e)
244  })
245
246  on('command.run', { command: 'agent-board' }, async $ => {
247    const hidden = await update($, isHidden, v => !v)
248    return { text: hidden ? 'Agent board hidden. /agent-board shows it again.' : 'Agent board shown.' }
249  })
250
251  on('ui.render', { component: 'AbovePrompt' }, async ($, e, next) => {
252    if (e.surface !== 'terminal' || e.props.hasSurvey || (await read($, isHidden))) return next(e)
253    const { entries, resting } = await read($, board)
254    if (entries.length === 0) return next(e)
255    ctx.bandId = e.requestId
256    const { Box, Text, Raster } = $.ui.resolve(e)
257    const fit = Math.max(1, Math.min(MAX_SHOWN, Math.floor(e.props.bodyColumns / SLOT)))
258    const shown = entries.slice(0, fit)
259    const more = entries.length - shown.length
260    const colour = (m: Mood) => (m === 'working' ? '#6aa6ff' : m === 'waiting' ? '#ffd23f' : m === 'failed' ? '#ef3f78' : '#61d68a')
261    const word = (m: Mood) => (m === 'working' ? 'working' : m === 'waiting' ? 'waiting for you' : m === 'failed' ? 'failed' : 'done')
262    return (
263      <Box flexDirection="column">
264        <Box flexDirection="row" gap={2}>
265          {shown.map(x => (
266            <Box key={x.id} flexDirection="column" width={SLOT}>
267              <Raster key={`s-${x.id}`} columns={COLS} rows={ROWS} cells={cells(x.sprite, 0, x.mood)} />
268              <Text bold color={colour(x.mood)} wrap="truncate-end">{x.label}</Text>
269              <Text dimColor wrap="truncate-end">{word(x.mood)}</Text>
270            </Box>
271          ))}
272        </Box>
273        {(more > 0 || resting > 0) && (
274          <Text dimColor>
275            {more > 0 ? `+${more} more on the board` : ''}{more > 0 && resting > 0 ? ' · ' : ''}{resting > 0 ? `${resting} other sessions idle` : ''}
276          </Text>
277        )}
278      </Box>
279    )
280  })
281}
282
types/index.d.ts 11 lines
1export type Mood = 'working' | 'waiting' | 'done' | 'failed'
2export type Sprite = 'conductor' | 'builder' | 'scout' | 'mate' | 'session'
3export type Entry = { id: string; label: string; mood: Mood; sprite: Sprite }
4export type Board = { entries: Entry[]; resting: number }
5
6declare module 'claude-code' {
7  interface PluginState {
8    'agent-board': { board: Board; isHidden: boolean }
9  }
10}
11