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best-claude-hud

best-claude-hud is a Rust-based statusline HUD for Claude Code terminals. It displays the active Claude model and live reasoning effort, Claude Code's launch directory, workspace, Git branch and status including ahead/behind counts, and context-window usage from Claude Code's statusLine data with an active-transcript fallback. Optional segments provide usage or rate-limit metadata, cost, session, and output-style information.

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Overview

It is distributed through npm with prebuilt native binaries, so Rust is not required for installation. The repository also provides a Nix flake for running or installing the tool in declarative environments. Its setup command writes the required statusLine configuration to Claude Code's settings file while preserving existing settings.

What best-claude-hud is used for

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  • A Rust status line for Claude Code that displays the active model, reasoning effort, context usage, workspace, and Git status. Optional sections show session cost and usage limits.

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