SLOPSHOPPER

agent-monitor

Sidebar of every subagent: what it was asked, what it is doing right now, its model, time and tokens, with history.

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A shopper browsing a rack in a slop shop
Preview · a replayed session in a sandbox
claude · ~/work/app · agent-monitor
│ ┃ Agents ✕ › fix the failing auth test and add an audit log call │ ┃ Running (0) │ ┃ No subagents running. ⏺ Read(src/auth.ts) │ ┃ ⎿ Read 6 lines │ ┃ Finished (0) ⏺ Update(src/auth.ts) │ ┃ Nothing yet. Subagents appear here as Claude ⎿ Added 2 lines, removed 1 line │ ┃ spawns them. ⏺ Bash(bun test) │ ┃ Press a row to open that agent's transcript. ⎿ 3 pass, 1 fail │ │ ● Done. refresh now rejects expired claims and logs an audit event. │ │ ✻ Worked for 42s · done 4:20 PM │ │ › /subagents │ ⎿ agent-monitor: Agent monitor opened: 0 running, 0 finished. │ │ ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── › ? for shortcuts

Draws

Pane · Agents
Running (0) No subagents running. Finished (0) Nothing yet. Subagents appear here as Claude spawns them. Press a row to open that agent's transcript.
README

claude-mods

Claude Code mods (hooks-module plugins) for subagent visibility, task tracking, token savings and daily workflow. Needs Claude Code 2.1.304 or newer (built and tested on 2.1.304; the mod API is early access and can change between releases).

Install

At the prompt of a Claude Code terminal session:

/plugin install agent-monitor --marketplace samarthsh-git/claude-mods
/plugin install task-inbox --marketplace samarthsh-git/claude-mods
/plugin install token-saver --marketplace samarthsh-git/claude-mods
/plugin install daily-driver --marketplace samarthsh-git/claude-mods
/plugin install clarify-first --marketplace samarthsh-git/claude-mods
/plugin install mod-scout --marketplace samarthsh-git/claude-mods

Answer y to add the marketplace, then pick the user scope. From a shell: claude plugin install <mod> --marketplace samarthsh-git/claude-mods.

In the desktop app, where /plugin does not run: click + next to the prompt box, then Plugins, Add marketplace with samarthsh-git/claude-mods, then Add plugin.

If this repository is private, the machine needs a git credential for github.com (gh auth login, then gh auth setup-git); the install never prompts for one.

The mods

agent-monitor: what every subagent is doing

  • A sidebar (/subagents) that opens by itself when the first subagent starts.
  • Each subagent shows its task, type, model, run time, tool count and tokens.
  • A live "now:" line shows what it is doing at that moment ($ npm test, reading auth.ts, searching "TODO").
  • Finished agents show a one-line result. History stays across sessions (last 60).
  • Press a row to open that agent's transcript. /subagents clear wipes the history.
  • The status line shows ⚙ N subagents running, and a toast appears when one fails.

task-inbox: to-do list and task inbox

The Tasks pane (/todo or /inbox) has three parts:

  1. Claude's plan. A live mirror of Claude's own TodoWrite or Task list: ☐ pending, ◐ in progress, ☑ done.
  2. My to-dos. Your own list, saved per project. /todo <text> adds, /todo done 2 ticks, /todo rm 2 removes, /todo clear drops finished ones.
  3. Inbox. Queue tasks with /inbox <text>, then press Send (or /inbox send). Claude spawns one background subagent per task, in parallel, on the cheapest model that fits. You keep working while they run, and agent-monitor shows their progress.

token-saver: fewer tokens, same accuracy

FeatureWhat it doesSetting
Subagent model routingbalanced: search and lookup subagents (Explore, guides) run on Haiku. aggressive: general-purpose and Plan subagents spawned from an Opus-class session also run on Sonnet. A model Claude or you set explicitly is never changed, and neither are forks or plugin agents.routing
Lean-output rulesAdds about 150 tokens to the system prompt: no preamble or recaps, locate before reading, batch tool calls, delegate broad searches, prefer Edit, never trade correctness for brevity. It sits in the cached part of the prompt.leanRules
Duplicate-read guardRefuses once a Read of a file Claude already read with the same range in the same context while the file is unchanged on disk. Repeating the exact call goes through, so the worst case is one extra round trip. It resets on compaction.dedupeReads
Usage HUDStatus line: ctx 42% · $1.23 · 5h 37%. Toasts at 70% context (suggests /compact or /clear) and at 80% of a rate limit.always on
Model advisorA toast when a prompt looks trivial for an Opus-class model, or hard for Haiku. Pure regex, costs no tokens, at most once per 15 min.advisor
/tokensReport: fresh, cached and output tokens, cache hit rate, subagent share, what token-saver saved, and concrete tips.

Change settings with /config (or pluginConfigs in settings.json).

What saves the most, from experience: /clear between unrelated tasks, keeping the prompt cache warm (no model switches mid-thread), delegating read-heavy searches to subagents, and using Sonnet as the default with Opus only for hard problems. The mod nudges toward these; it cannot measure your exact savings.

daily-driver: get more done per day

  • /aim <goal> sets a focus goal (/aim auto <goal> sets one only when none is set), shown above the prompt with time spent and today's file and commit counts. Press Done or run /aim done to log it.
  • When a turn ran 60 s or longer (setting notifyAfterSeconds), you get a desktop or phone notification with Claude's answer. Hand Claude long work and switch tasks.
  • /eod (or /eod yesterday) prints a zero-token work log: Claude time, prompts, files changed, commits, test runs, subagents and goals done. Paste it into a standup.
  • /handoff has Claude write .claude/handoff.md (goal, done, state, next steps, gotchas). /pickup in the next session continues from it, and a toast reminds you when one exists.

clarify-first: questions before complex work

On a complex task or a deep, open-ended question, Claude first checks the repo and the chat for what it can learn itself. If something that would change the result is still missing, it asks you up to 4 multiple-choice questions in one round, with a recommended option on each. It then states the agreed spec in 3 lines or fewer, does the work, and checks the result against that spec. Everyday prompts ("fix the typo", "what is X") pass straight through.

Cost:

  • Detection: free keyword scoring decides most prompts. Only borderline ones get a classification call on the small, fast model, typically a few hundred tokens. Set detector to heuristic for zero detection tokens.
  • Instruction: about 200 tokens of instruction reach the model, and only on prompts flagged complex.
  • Payoff: one question round is usually cheaper than redoing work built on a wrong assumption. That trade is the point of the mod. It is not a measured gain.

Commands: /clarify on (default) · off · always · now <task> (force questions for one task) · /clarify alone shows status. Settings: detector (hybrid / heuristic / model), maxQuestions (1 to 4).

mod-scout: the right mod at the right time

It reads each prompt locally, with no model call and zero tokens, and never changes what Claude sees:

  • Suggests the installed mod that fits, as a toast, once per kind per session. For example "why is my usage so high" suggests /tokens, a list of 3 or more tasks suggests /inbox, and "wrapping up for today" suggests /handoff. It knows every mod here plus Podium and Grounded Engineering, and stays quiet about mods you have not installed.
  • Sets your focus goal (daily-driver's /aim) from your first real task of the session, unless you already set one.
  • Makes mods for you: send the same prompt a third time and it becomes a slash command on the spot (/run-test, say). This costs no tokens to make or to use beyond the prompt itself. /scout rm <name> removes one.
  • Builds bigger mods on request: /scout build <idea> has Claude write, validate and test a new mod, with zero run-time token cost wherever the feature allows. This is the one part that spends tokens, and only when you ask.

/scout shows recent suggestions and your macros. /scout off pauses it. Settings: autoMacros, autoFocus.

Claude chat (claude.ai, phone and desktop apps)

The mods above run only in Claude Code: the chat app has no plugin system. For chat, chat/ holds the closest equivalents, and both work on every device once set up:

  1. chat/preferences.txt: paste it into Settings → Profile → personal preferences. It holds the lean-output rules, clarifying questions on complex tasks only, and a model-fit hint. It is about 200 words, shorter than a typical preferences block, and preferences ride on every message, so shorter is cheaper.
  2. chat/deep-work-skill.zip: upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills. It is a gather → ask → spec → deliver → self-check procedure that Claude loads only for complex work, so everyday chats pay just its one-line description.

Chat habits that save the most: start a new chat per topic (each message resends the whole chat), put reference files in a Project instead of pasting them again, and use a lighter model for simple asks.

Cloud sessions from your phone

.claude/settings.json registers this marketplace and enables the six mods, so a Claude Code session opened on this repository (from claude.ai/code or the phone app) offers to install them with no commands typed.

Third-party mods from the same Reddit thread

These are other people's projects. Install them from their own repositories:

ModWhat it isInstall
PodiumHands jobs to other agent CLIs (Codex, Gemini, other Claude models) and tracks them in one pane, with sprints and PRs. Needs Node 22+, git 2.28+ and at least one other agent CLI./plugin marketplace add madjagstudios/plugins, then /plugin install podium@madjagstudios
Grounded Engineering/grounded pane: engineering practices that fit your repo, with sources, plus a reviewed shelf of skill repositories./plugin marketplace add madjagstudios/grounded-engineering, then /plugin install grounded-engineering@grounded-engineering
claude-ui-modNot a Claude Code plugin. It patches the files of the Claude Desktop app on Windows: subagent HUD, task rail, usage meters, provider routing.Windows only. Quit Claude Desktop, then git clone https://gitlab.com/blockshooter/claude-ui-mod && cd claude-ui-mod && npm ci && node scripts/verify-frontend.cjs && node patch.js apply. Read its SECURITY.md first: it rewrites your Claude Desktop install, and app updates can break it. node patch.js revert undoes it.

The "optimaizr" and "inbox monitor" mods mentioned in the thread had no links. task-inbox and token-saver cover the same ground.

Developing

claude plugin validate mods/<mod>
claude plugin test mods/<mod>

To run a working copy, add "env": { "CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_DIRS": "/abs/path/mods/agent-monitor:/abs/path/mods/task-inbox" } to ~/.claude/settings.json, or start with claude --plugin-dir mods/<mod>.

License

MIT

Source 2 files
hooks/register.tsx 261 lines
1import { atom, read, update } from 'claude-code'
2import type { EngineInterface, Register, TurnUsage } from 'claude-code'
3
4import type { AgentRun } from '../types'
5
6const PANE = 'agent-monitor'
7const TITLE = 'Agents'
8const HISTORY_KEY = 'history'
9const KEEP = 60
10
11const runs = atom({ plugin: 'agent-monitor', key: 'runs' } as const, [])
12const tick = atom({ plugin: 'agent-monitor', key: 'tick' } as const, 0)
13const showAll = atom({ plugin: 'agent-monitor', key: 'showAll' } as const, false)
14
15function clip(text: string, n: number): string {
16  const one = text.replace(/\s+/g, ' ').trim()
17  return one.length > n ? one.slice(0, n - 1) + '…' : one
18}
19
20function base(path: unknown): string {
21  return typeof path === 'string' ? path.split('/').filter(Boolean).pop() ?? path : ''
22}
23
24// One short line saying what a tool call is doing, for the "now" row.
25function describeCall(tool: string, input: Record<string, unknown>): string {
26  const s = (k: string) => (typeof input[k] === 'string' ? (input[k] as string) : '')
27  switch (tool) {
28    case 'Bash':
29      return `$ ${clip(s('command'), 70)}`
30    case 'Read':
31      return `reading ${base(input.file_path)}`
32    case 'Edit':
33    case 'Write':
34    case 'NotebookEdit':
35      return `editing ${base(input.file_path ?? input.notebook_path)}`
36    case 'Grep':
37      return `searching "${clip(s('pattern'), 40)}"`
38    case 'Glob':
39      return `finding ${clip(s('pattern'), 40)}`
40    case 'WebFetch':
41      return `fetching ${clip(s('url'), 60)}`
42    case 'WebSearch':
43      return `searching web "${clip(s('query'), 40)}"`
44    case 'Agent':
45      return `spawning: ${clip(s('description'), 50)}`
46    default:
47      return tool.startsWith('mcp__') ? tool.split('__').slice(1).join(' › ') : tool
48  }
49}
50
51function totalTokens(u: TurnUsage | undefined): number | null {
52  if (!u) return null
53  return u.input_tokens + u.output_tokens + u.cache_read_input_tokens + u.cache_creation_input_tokens
54}
55
56function fmtTokens(n: number | null): string {
57  if (n === null) return ''
58  return n >= 1_000_000 ? `${(n / 1_000_000).toFixed(1)}M tok` : n >= 1000 ? `${Math.round(n / 1000)}k tok` : `${n} tok`
59}
60
61function fmtSecs(ms: number): string {
62  const s = Math.max(0, Math.round(ms / 1000))
63  return s >= 3600 ? `${Math.floor(s / 3600)}h${Math.floor((s % 3600) / 60)}m` : s >= 60 ? `${Math.floor(s / 60)}m${s % 60}s` : `${s}s`
64}
65
66function shortModel(model: string): string {
67  const m = model.toLowerCase()
68  for (const name of ['opus', 'sonnet', 'haiku', 'fable']) if (m.includes(name)) return name
69  return model
70}
71
72async function refreshStatus($: EngineInterface) {
73  const list = await read($, runs)
74  const running = list.filter(r => r.status === 'running').length
75  $.ui.status(running > 0 ? `⚙ ${running} subagent${running === 1 ? '' : 's'} running` : undefined)
76}
77
78export const register: Register = on => {
79  let opened = false
80  let ticker: { cancel: () => void } | null = null
81
82  on('session.start', async ($, e, next) => {
83    await $.command.register({
84      name: 'subagents',
85      description: 'Open the subagent monitor: what each subagent is doing, its model, time and tokens',
86      argumentHint: '[clear]',
87    })
88    const saved = await $.store.get(HISTORY_KEY)
89    if (Array.isArray(saved)) {
90      await update($, runs, list => (list.length > 0 ? list : (saved as AgentRun[]).slice(-KEEP)))
91    }
92
93    return next(e)
94  })
95
96  on('command.run', { command: 'subagents' }, async ($, e) => {
97    if (e.args.trim() === 'clear') {
98      await update($, runs, list => list.filter(r => r.status === 'running'))
99      await $.store.set(HISTORY_KEY, [])
100      return { text: 'Agent history cleared.' }
101    }
102    opened = true
103    await $.ui.open({ id: PANE, title: TITLE })
104    const list = await read($, runs)
105    const running = list.filter(r => r.status === 'running').length
106
107    return { text: `Agent monitor opened: ${running} running, ${list.length - running} finished.` }
108  })
109
110  on('agent.spawn', async ($, e, next) => {
111    const started = await next(e)
112    if (started.deny !== undefined || started.agentId === undefined) return started
113
114    const run: AgentRun = {
115      id: started.agentId,
116      description: e.description || e.subagentType,
117      type: e.subagentType,
118      model: shortModel(started.model || e.model || e.parentModel),
119      status: 'running',
120      startedAt: await $.clock.now(),
121      endedAt: null,
122      tools: 0,
123      doing: 'starting',
124      tokens: null,
125      summary: null,
126    }
127    await update($, runs, list => [...list.filter(r => r.id !== run.id), run].slice(-KEEP))
128
129    if (!opened) {
130      opened = true
131      void $.ui.open({ id: PANE, title: TITLE })
132    }
133    if (ticker === null) {
134      ticker = $.clock.every(5000, () => {
135        void (async () => {
136          const list = await read($, runs)
137          if (!list.some(r => r.status === 'running')) {
138            ticker?.cancel()
139            ticker = null
140            return
141          }
142          await update($, tick, n => n + 1)
143        })()
144      })
145    }
146    await refreshStatus($)
147
148    return started
149  }).catch(($, e, next) => next(e))
150
151  on('tool.call', async ($, e, next) => {
152    const agentId = e.agentId
153    if (agentId !== undefined) {
154      const doing = describeCall(String(e.tool), e as unknown as Record<string, unknown>)
155      void update($, runs, list =>
156        list.some(r => r.id === agentId)
157          ? list.map(r => (r.id === agentId ? { ...r, tools: r.tools + 1, doing } : r))
158          : list,
159      )
160    }
161
162    return next(e)
163  }).catch(($, e, next) => next(e))
164
165  on('turn.complete', async ($, e, next) => {
166    const agentId = e.agentId
167    if (agentId !== undefined) {
168      const now = await $.clock.now()
169      const status = e.isAborted ? 'stopped' : e.reason === 'error' || e.reason === 'refusal' ? 'failed' : 'done'
170      const tokens = totalTokens(e.usage)
171      const summary = e.answer ? clip(e.answer, 160) : null
172      let isOurs = false
173      await update($, runs, list =>
174        list.map(r => {
175          if (r.id !== agentId) return r
176          isOurs = true
177          return { ...r, status, endedAt: now, doing: null, summary, tokens: (r.tokens ?? 0) + (tokens ?? 0) || null }
178        }),
179      )
180      if (isOurs) {
181        const list = await read($, runs)
182        await $.store.set(HISTORY_KEY, list.filter(r => r.status !== 'running').slice(-KEEP))
183        await refreshStatus($)
184        if (status === 'failed') $.ui.toast(`Subagent failed: ${clip(list.find(r => r.id === agentId)?.description ?? '', 50)}`)
185      }
186    }
187
188    return next(e)
189  })
190
191
192  on('ui.render', { component: 'Pane', requestId: PANE }, async ($, e) => {
193    const { Box, Text, Button } = $.ui.resolve(e)
194    await read($, tick)
195    const now = await $.clock.now()
196    const list = await read($, runs)
197    const isAll = await read($, showAll)
198    const running = list.filter(r => r.status === 'running')
199    const finished = list.filter(r => r.status !== 'running').reverse()
200    const shown = isAll ? finished : finished.slice(0, 8)
201    const width = Math.max(20, e.props.bodyColumns ?? 40)
202    const mark = { done: '✓', failed: '✗', stopped: '■', running: '●' } as const
203    const tone = { done: 'success', failed: 'error', stopped: 'warning', running: 'claude' } as const
204
205    const row = (r: AgentRun) => (
206      <Box key={`r-${r.id}`} flexDirection="column" marginBottom={1}>
207        <Button key={`v-${r.id}`} plain onPress={() => void $.ui.view({ agentId: r.id })}>
208          <Text color={tone[r.status]}>{mark[r.status]} </Text>
209          {clip(r.description, width - 4)}
210        </Button>
211        <Text dimColor wrap="truncate">
212          {'  '}
213          {r.type} · {r.model} · {fmtSecs((r.endedAt ?? now) - r.startedAt)} · {r.tools} tools
214          {r.tokens ? ` · ${fmtTokens(r.tokens)}` : ''}
215        </Text>
216        {r.doing && (
217          <Text color="suggestion" wrap="truncate">
218            {'  now: '}
219            {r.doing}
220          </Text>
221        )}
222        {r.summary && r.status !== 'running' && (
223          <Text dimColor wrap="truncate">
224            {'  → '}
225            {r.summary}
226          </Text>
227        )}
228      </Box>
229    )
230
231    return (
232      <Box flexDirection="column">
233        <Text bold>Running ({running.length})</Text>
234        {running.length === 0 && <Text dimColor>No subagents running.</Text>}
235        {running.map(row)}
236        <Box marginTop={1}>
237          <Text bold>Finished ({finished.length})</Text>
238        </Box>
239        {finished.length === 0 && <Text dimColor>Nothing yet. Subagents appear here as Claude spawns them.</Text>}
240        {shown.map(row)}
241        <Box flexDirection="row" gap={1}>
242          {finished.length > 8 && (
243            <Button key="all" label={isAll ? 'Show fewer' : `Show all ${finished.length}`} onPress={() => void update($, showAll, v => !v)} />
244          )}
245          {finished.length > 0 && (
246            <Button
247              key="clear"
248              label="Clear history"
249              onPress={async () => {
250                await update($, runs, l => l.filter(r => r.status === 'running'))
251                await $.store.set(HISTORY_KEY, [])
252              }}
253            />
254          )}
255        </Box>
256        <Text dimColor>Press a row to open that agent's transcript.</Text>
257      </Box>
258    )
259  })
260}
261
types/index.d.ts 22 lines
1export type AgentRunStatus = 'running' | 'done' | 'failed' | 'stopped'
2
3export type AgentRun = {
4  id: string
5  description: string
6  type: string
7  model: string
8  status: AgentRunStatus
9  startedAt: number
10  endedAt: number | null
11  tools: number
12  doing: string | null
13  tokens: number | null
14  summary: string | null
15}
16
17declare module 'claude-code' {
18  interface PluginState {
19    'agent-monitor': { runs: AgentRun[]; tick: number; showAll: boolean }
20  }
21}
22