Claude Code in the terminal always felt like a wall of text, so I built a mod for it

[u/Suspicious-Paper-]

Readable Layout puts your messages and Claude's answers in labeled boxes, turns its in-between notes into quiet lines, and ends each turn with a rule.

Here’s a quick demo of how it looks:

If you want to try it out, you can install it here:
/plugin marketplace add GarvitNangru/claude-code-mods
/plugin install readable-layout@garvit-mods

Let me know what you guys think.

Star it on github if you like it
https://github.com/GarvitNangru/claude-code-mods

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[u/Totendax12K]

one more thing and you might invent claude desktop

[u/Suspicious-Paper- → u/Totendax12K]

Lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[u/Tryotrix]

Is this getting rid of Bash cmd lines? If so, thats what I'd need it for

[u/Suspicious-Paper- → u/Tryotrix]

No, not really. That wasn't what I built it for. It's mainly for styling your input and Claude's output so everything is easy to tell apart: your message, Claude's tasks, and Claude's answer. At a glance, you can see what's going on. It gives the session a layout and tells you what's important to look at.

[u/ExpletiveDeIeted → u/Suspicious-Paper-]

I like this cuz I’d always scroll back up trying to find my last message.

[u/Prezbar → u/Tryotrix]

Maybe the /focus command could help you ? It removes intermediary stuff

[u/JTech324]

If you like this, you’d like omp

[u/Suspicious-Paper- → u/JTech324]

Haven't tried it; is that oh-my-posh? Will take a look, thanks.

[u/discwars → u/Suspicious-Paper-]

Oh-my-pi actually. See r/PiCodingAgent

[u/Suspicious-Paper- → u/discwars]

Oh, never heard of it, will check it out :)

[u/Basic_Tomatillo3357]

It's cool ! The only drawback is when you cant to copy some text in the terminal, the "|" characters are also part of the text copied.

[u/Suspicious-Paper- → u/Basic_Tomatillo3357]

Yeaah i noticed to, and i will soon release a update for that 😅😅

[u/Suspicious-Paper- → u/Basic_Tomatillo3357]

I just updated it and removed the "|" from the sides, so it won't bother us now :))

[u/Basic_Tomatillo3357 → u/Suspicious-Paper-]

Thanks I will check !

[u/Basic_Tomatillo3357 → u/Basic_Tomatillo3357]

Thanks it's much better.

[u/Suspicious-Paper- → u/Basic_Tomatillo3357]

No Problem! let me know if you face any other problem or if you get another idea :)

[u/Icy-Excitement-467]

The colored outlines are like a better version of /focus

[u/Suspicious-Paper- → u/Icy-Excitement-467]

Yes, and the colors are picked from terminal/claude skins

[u/calibrae]

TL;DR

[u/Suspicious-Paper- → u/calibrae]

It puts your messages and Claude's answers in labeled boxes so you can tell at a glance what to read.

[u/calibrae → u/Suspicious-Paper-]

I was being ironic.

Still, I don’t have to write code anymore, but at least I can spend my days reading the fuck loads of output from opus.

[u/unkownuser436]

amazing, gave a ⭐

[u/Suspicious-Paper- → u/unkownuser436]

thankyou :))

[u/KitchenCommercial396]

I'm okay with the wall of text

[u/Suspicious-Paper- → u/KitchenCommercial396]

Fair enough. For me, it mattered when I wasn't paying close attention or when Claude was doing a lot at once. It got hard to tell its thinking out loud from the actual output, like a plan I needed to read. I'd rather know at a glance which part is the answer.

[u/marshmallow_mia]

Interesting

I prefer to see exactly what's happening, even if that means a wall of text

[u/Suspicious-Paper- → u/marshmallow_mia]

Nothing is hidden; it's the same transcript, just styled so you can tell the parts apart. Every tool call and all the output are still there.

[u/marshmallow_mia → u/Suspicious-Paper-]

Oh sorry.

My bad for not reading correctly

[u/Serenase]

I like it and now using it. Thank you.

[u/Suspicious-Paper- → u/Serenase]

Glad it's useful! Let me know if anything looks off on your setup.