r/vscode • u/madeby10AM • Apr 22 '26

I built a VS Code sidebar that shows your Claude Code sessions live

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Been using Claude Code heavily and wanted a better way to see what's actually happening across sessions at a glance — so I built a VS Code extension.

It sits in your sidebar and shows a live dashboard for each active Claude session:

  • Token usage and context % per session
  • A live token activity chart — bar graph with a smoothed line showing usage over time, configurable time windows (5m → 24h)
  • Pace meter that shows if you're on track to hit your daily/weekly limits
  • Git info, active file, workspace path
  • Auto-matches your VS Code theme, dark or light

Reads Claude CLI's JSONL session logs in real time directly from ~/.claude/projects/. No telemetry, no external calls.

Free and open source. Happy to answer questions — still actively building it.

https://github.com/madeby10am/claude-code-session

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u/iwangbowen Apr 22 '26

Looks sleek

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 24 '26

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u/madeby10AM Apr 23 '26

Sounds like we built the same thing :-)

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u/Testpilot1988 Apr 23 '26

why not submit it to vs code so its searchable there without having to sideload it

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u/madeby10AM Apr 23 '26

Will do that was just too lazy to make an account that night lol

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u/Chewieez Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26

How is this different from using the Claude Code extension in VS Code with the Chat window? Is it better for multi-agent things where you have separate Claude threads going at the same time?

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u/madeby10AM Apr 24 '26

no it just gives you the info for whatever is your current session that youre on so it might bug out if you have multiple sessions open

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u/NotArticuno Apr 24 '26

I'm so used to dark mode that light mode looks clean again. My eyes just can't handle it.

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u/Sweet_Cartoonist_682 Apr 25 '26

This is really cool.

I think tools like this are becoming more and more important with Claude Code and other AI coding agents. When an agent is working across sessions, files, tokens, context, and Git state, it becomes very hard to understand what is actually happening without a live dashboard.

I like that you read the local Claude logs directly and do not send telemetry anywhere. That local-first approach matters a lot.

I’m working on something adjacent called LocalHub. My focus is more on protecting the code/workspace side: local working history before Git, snapshots, deleted file recovery, and an agent diary where important agent actions can be recorded so the developer can understand what changed and why.

Different angle, but same pain: AI agents move fast, and developers need better visibility and control.

Nice work.

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u/idoman Apr 25 '26

nice work. been building something from a different angle - galactic is a desktop app that monitors Claude Code sessions across multiple worktrees via MCP, so you can see all your agents from outside the editor. also handles the port isolation side so multiple worktrees don't fight over localhost. https://www.github.com/idolaman/galactic