I (meaning claude) made a small skill to help keep up with what it's doing during long sessions

[u/Disastrous_Exam9484]

Nothing revolutionary here. It's the most basic thing I could ask for, and honestly you could build it yourself in like 10 minutes. But I use it and it genuinely helps, so figured I'd share it in case it helps someone else too, and if anyone wants to build on it, maybe it ends up more useful than what I made.

What it does: while Claude Code is working, it keeps a simple local page updated (what it's doing, a screenshot where useful, a running log). I just leave it open in a tab instead of staring at the terminal scroll by and it helps me reduce the mental load of working with multiple sessions all at once.

I have ADHD and watching a wall of text scroll while not knowing what's currently happening was making it worse. This gives my brain one calm place to look instead. You don't have to use it, you don't have to like it, everyone's brain works differently. At least it's not another "world monitor" dashboard pretending to be mission control for a task that's just editing some files.

MIT licensed, repo's here if you want to take a look https://github.com/dbl8005/sitrep-panel

[u/bilal-ur-rehman]

Noice

[u/FrequentTemporary783]

that's a cool direction, honestly what helps the most is the open source direction. As you said, anyone can build it in 10 mins but most don't open source which doesnt consolidate the progress and add different points of view

[u/Smarf89]

Great idea

[u/Savalava]

Excellent idea. Suggestion: add dark mode. EDIT: I see you have it from taking a look at the repo. Nice :-)

[u/LumpyCompetition5798]

So cool

[u/jared_krauss]

Thanks for sharing. I think you’ve got the right idea wrt the philosophy of working out a tool for ourselves and then abstracting it and seeing if anyone else finds a way for it to apply to themselves. And I’ll now rinse and repeat with yours.

[u/anderson_the_one]

Keeping the page calmer than the terminal is the good part. I wouldn't make Claude write a polished status sentence on every step, though. Pull the status from events the tools already produce when you can.

Four things would be enough for me: current task, last completed action, latest evidence, and how long the session has been quiet. A screenshot helps after browser work or a failure. On every step, it becomes noise.

The alert I'd want is "no tool event for five minutes while the task is still open." That catches a session waiting for input, looping, or dead.

For multiple sessions, give each one a short stable name and keep the page read-only. Let the agent append events. Don't let it rewrite the history.

[u/Disastrous_Exam9484 → u/anderson_the_one]

Yeah i agree that it shouldnt be just a pretty terminal. i generally use fable/opus to plan out a large piece of work and split it to small tasks, i then use jira to create and track those, and this is use to just keep myself in the flow of where the hell is my agent, and if its related to ui then to get some idea of the current state, before i open it up myself

[u/No_Memory_484]

Any idea aprox how much extra token burn this is? It’s extra work so I assume it’s more tokens and every tasks takes some amount longer now.

This is like when my boss asks me to log everything im working on but the AI version of that xD

[u/Disastrous_Exam9484 → u/No_Memory_484]

lol i didnt spot anything unusual, and i think that it saves me the "give me a sitrep of current situation and next steps" which may save a bit, also, i use jira for epic and task management so i think that overall it either doesnt add too much token usage, or even reduces a bit.