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effort-guard

Claude Code mod: context/token band, escalation signals and per-turn effort log.

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★ 1v0.3.1MITupdated 2026-10-06stefanochieli/claude-effort-guard
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› fix the failing auth test and add an audit log call ⏺ Read(src/auth.ts) ⎿ Read 6 lines ⏺ Update(src/auth.ts) ⎿ Added 2 lines, removed 1 line ⏺ Bash(bun test) ⎿ 3 pass, 1 fail ● Done. refresh now rejects expired claims and logs an audit event. ✻ Worked for 42s · done 4:20 PM › /effort-log ⎿ effort-guard: 2026-10-07T15:22:38.428Z ctx=49% tok=98880 streak=1 STRUGGLE(bash_error) ctx 49% | last turn 98880 tok | struggling x1/3 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── › ? for shortcuts

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ctx 49% | last turn 98880 tok | struggling x1/3
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effort-guard

Mod per Claude Code (>= 2.1.287): banda sopra il prompt con contesto e token, segnale di escalation dopo turni "faticosi" consecutivi, registro per turno con /effort-log. Solo osservazione, non blocca nulla.

Come funziona

  • Turno faticoso: un comando Bash in errore, oppure l'output di un comando di test/build (npm test, ng test, mvn, gradle, pytest, go test, cargo, dotnet, make, tsc…) che contiene un fallimento (FAIL, N failing, BUILD FAILURE…) anche se l'exit code è 0. I comandi dei sub-agent non contano.
  • Escalation: al raggiungimento della soglia di turni faticosi consecutivi compare un toast (una sola volta per serie; un turno pulito azzera la serie e lo riarma).
  • Banda: ctx N% | last turn N tok | struggling xN/soglia sopra il prompt.
  • /effort-log: ultimi 50 turni; il registro è salvato nello store del plugin e resta tra una sessione e l'altra.

Impostazioni

OpzioneDefaultDescrizione
threshold3Turni faticosi consecutivi prima del toast (1–20). Si cambia dal menu /config del plugin.

Installazione

/plugin marketplace add stefanochieli/claude-effort-guard
/plugin install effort-guard@effort-guard
/reload-plugins

Sviluppo

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

Struttura: .claude-plugin/ (manifest + marketplace), hooks/ (modulo), types/ (stato), tests/. Flusso di lavoro e release: vedi CONTRIBUTING.md.

Impostazioni repo da attivare una volta

  • Settings → General → Pull Requests: Allow auto-merge e Automatically delete head branches
  • Settings → Actions → General → Workflow permissions: Read and write + Allow GitHub Actions to create and approve pull requests (serve a release-please)
  • Settings → Rules → Rulesets: importa protect-main.json (richiede il check checks, prodotto da ci.yml)
  • Opzionale: secret RELEASE_PLEASE_TOKEN (PAT o GitHub App); senza, la CI sulla PR di release viene lanciata da release-please.yml con workflow_dispatch

Automazioni

  • CI: validate + test su ogni PR e push su main, con la versione minima di Claude Code (checks, richiesto dal ruleset); il job compat-latest prova anche l'ultima versione senza bloccare.
  • Release: release-please legge i Conventional Commits (feat:, fix:), apre la release PR, aggiorna versione in plugin.json e marketplace.json, CHANGELOG, tag e GitHub Release al merge.
  • PR title lint: i titoli PR devono essere Conventional Commits (squash merge → commit corretti).
  • Dependabot: aggiorna le GitHub Actions, auto-merge solo di minor/patch se la CI passa; i major restano aperti per la revisione manuale.
Source 3 files
hooks/module.mjs 146 lines
1import { atom, read, update } from 'claude-code'
2import { looksLikeTestFailure } from './detect.mjs'
3
4const DEFAULT_THRESHOLD = 3
5const LOG_LIMIT = 500
6const LOG_KEY = 'log'
7
8const metrics = atom(
9  { plugin: 'effort-guard', key: 'metrics' },
10  { contextPercent: null, lastTurnTokens: null, consecutiveStruggles: 0 },
11)
12const turn = atom({ plugin: 'effort-guard', key: 'turn' }, { struggled: false, reason: null })
13
14export function register(on, options) {
15  const threshold = Math.max(1, Math.floor(Number(options?.threshold)) || DEFAULT_THRESHOLD)
16
17  on('session.start', async ($, e, next) => {
18    await $.command.register({
19      name: 'effort-log',
20      description: 'Print the effort-guard per-turn context/struggle log',
21    })
22
23    return next(e)
24  })
25
26  on('prompt.submit', async ($, e, next) => {
27    await update($, turn, () => ({ struggled: false, reason: null }))
28
29    return next(e)
30  })
31
32  on('tool.call', { tool: 'Bash' }, async ($, e, next) => {
33    const ran = await next(e)
34
35    // A subagent's commands are not the user-visible turn's struggle.
36    if (e.agentId) {
37      return ran
38    }
39
40    if (ran.isError) {
41      await update($, turn, () => ({ struggled: true, reason: 'bash_error' }))
42    } else if (looksLikeTestFailure(e.command, ran.text)) {
43      await update($, turn, () => ({ struggled: true, reason: 'test_failure_pattern' }))
44    }
45
46    return ran
47  })
48
49  on('turn.complete', async ($, e, next) => {
50    if (e.agentId) {
51      // Subagent turn: don't count it toward the user-visible streak.
52      return next(e)
53    }
54
55    const usage = e.usage
56    const lastTurnTokens = usage
57      ? usage.input_tokens + usage.output_tokens + usage.cache_read_input_tokens + usage.cache_creation_input_tokens
58      : null
59
60    // Struggle tracking and the toast must not depend on context-usage
61    // reporting succeeding, so a failure here degrades to an unknown percent
62    // instead of skipping the rest of the hook.
63    let contextPercent = null
64    try {
65      const sessionUsage = await $.session.usage()
66      contextPercent = sessionUsage.context.percent ?? null
67    } catch {}
68
69    const { struggled, reason } = await read($, turn)
70    const prev = await read($, metrics)
71    const consecutiveStruggles = struggled ? prev.consecutiveStruggles + 1 : 0
72
73    await update($, metrics, () => ({ contextPercent, lastTurnTokens, consecutiveStruggles }))
74    await update($, turn, () => ({ struggled: false, reason: null }))
75
76    const entry = {
77      ts: new Date().toISOString(),
78      contextPercent,
79      lastTurnTokens,
80      struggled,
81      reason,
82      consecutiveStruggles,
83    }
84
85    // The log outlives the session. A store failure must not cost the toast.
86    try {
87      const stored = await $.store.get(LOG_KEY)
88      const list = Array.isArray(stored) ? stored : []
89      await $.store.set(LOG_KEY, [...list, entry].slice(-LOG_LIMIT))
90    } catch {}
91
92    // Once per streak: fires when the streak reaches the threshold, and again
93    // only after a clean turn has reset it. Derived from $.state, so a hot
94    // reload cannot make it fire twice.
95    if (consecutiveStruggles === threshold) {
96      $.ui.toast(
97        `effort-guard: ${consecutiveStruggles} struggling turns in a row (failed commands/tests). ` +
98          `Consider switching to a stronger model or raising effort one level.`,
99      )
100    }
101
102    return next(e)
103  })
104
105  on('command.run', { command: 'effort-log' }, async $ => {
106    let list = []
107    try {
108      const stored = await $.store.get(LOG_KEY)
109      list = Array.isArray(stored) ? stored : []
110    } catch {}
111
112    if (list.length === 0) {
113      return { text: 'effort-guard: no turns logged yet.' }
114    }
115
116    const lines = list.slice(-50).map(e => {
117      const flag = e.struggled ? `STRUGGLE(${e.reason})` : 'ok'
118
119      return `${e.ts}  ctx=${e.contextPercent ?? '?'}%  tok=${e.lastTurnTokens ?? '?'}  streak=${e.consecutiveStruggles}  ${flag}`
120    })
121
122    return { text: lines.join('\n') }
123  })
124
125  on('ui.render', { component: 'AbovePrompt' }, async ($, e, next) => {
126    const m = await read($, metrics)
127
128    if (m.contextPercent === null && m.lastTurnTokens === null && m.consecutiveStruggles === 0) {
129      return next(e)
130    }
131
132    const { Box, Text } = $.ui.resolve(e)
133    const struggleText = m.consecutiveStruggles > 0 ? ` | struggling x${m.consecutiveStruggles}/${threshold}` : ''
134
135    return h(
136      Box,
137      null,
138      h(
139        Text,
140        { dimColor: true },
141        `ctx ${m.contextPercent ?? '?'}% | last turn ${m.lastTurnTokens ?? '?'} tok${struggleText}`,
142      ),
143    )
144  })
145}
146
hooks/detect.mjs 31 lines
1// Commands whose output is worth scanning for swallowed test/build failures.
2// Anything else (cat, grep, git log...) can print "FAIL" without meaning it.
3const TEST_COMMAND = new RegExp(
4  [
5    String.raw`(?:^|[\s;&|(])(?:\./)?(?:mvnw?|gradlew?|jest|vitest|karma|pytest|tox|tsc|make)(?=\s|$)`,
6    String.raw`\b(?:npm|pnpm|yarn|bun)\s+(?:run\s+)?(?:test|check|build|lint|e2e)\b`,
7    String.raw`\bng\s+(?:test|build|lint|e2e)\b`,
8    String.raw`\b(?:go|cargo|dotnet)\s+(?:test|build)\b`,
9    String.raw`\bclaude\s+plugin\s+test\b`,
10  ].join('|'),
11)
12
13// Text a runner prints when it failed but the exit code was swallowed
14// (`npm test || true`) or the failure is reported without a non-zero exit.
15const FAILURE_PATTERNS = [
16  /\bFAIL(ED|URE)?\b/,
17  /\d+\s+failing/i,
18  /tests?:\s*\d+\s*failed/i,
19  /assertionerror/i,
20  /BUILD FAILURE/i,
21  /[✗✖]/,
22]
23
24export function isTestCommand(command) {
25  return typeof command === 'string' && TEST_COMMAND.test(command)
26}
27
28export function looksLikeTestFailure(command, text) {
29  return isTestCommand(command) && !!text && FAILURE_PATTERNS.some(re => re.test(text))
30}
31
types/index.d.ts 26 lines
1export type Metrics = {
2  contextPercent: number | null
3  lastTurnTokens: number | null
4  consecutiveStruggles: number
5}
6
7export type Turn = {
8  struggled: boolean
9  reason: 'bash_error' | 'test_failure_pattern' | null
10}
11
12export type LogEntry = {
13  ts: string
14  contextPercent: number | null
15  lastTurnTokens: number | null
16  struggled: boolean
17  reason: Turn['reason']
18  consecutiveStruggles: number
19}
20
21declare module 'claude-code' {
22  interface PluginState {
23    'effort-guard': { metrics: Metrics; turn: Turn }
24  }
25}
26