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10 alternatives to claude-hud

jarrodwatts/claude-hud — A Claude Code plugin that shows what's happening - context usage, active tools, running agents, and todo progress (28,856 stars, MIT, ui, dev-tools, cli).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 50 licence-cleared components from jarrodwatts/claude-hud itself.

#RepoScoreLicenceStars
1davila7/claude-code-templates6.0MIT32,884
2matt1398/claude-devtools6.7MIT3,992
3openai/codex-plugin-cc7.2Apache-2.034,543
4diet103/claude-code-infrastructure-showcase6.8MIT10,041
5affaan-m/ecc6.8MIT286,740
6anthropics/claude-plugins-official5.1Apache-2.043,490
7sirmalloc/ccstatusline7.5MIT13,420
8davepoon/buildwithclaude6.2MIT3,665
9rohitg00/awesome-claude-code-toolkit6.4Apache-2.02,726
10mattbirchler/claude-code-obsidian6.7MIT3

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