See context, cost and permission checks live in Claude Code with Flightdeck
Long Claude Code sessions have a visibility problem. You launch five subagents, the context gauge creeps up, a permission prompt scrolls past, and an hour later you cannot say what the session cost or what it was allowed to touch. The status line helps, but it is one row. scasella/claude-flightdeck is a Claude Code mod that adds a live dashboard pane to your terminal. Per its README, every number…
Claude Code users face challenges when tracking the cost, permissions, and context of long-running tasks. A new mod called Claude Flightdeck addresses these issues by providing a live dashboard in a terminal, offering real-time visibility into key session metrics. This mod adds a set of panels that display crucial information about each Claude Code session.
The main panel shows the model, effort, permission mode, context gauge with compacting markers, cost, rate-limit windows, and time to reset. Permission checks are displayed through gate panels, each with a color-coded status: green for allowed, blue for auto-mode decision, amber for pending, and red for denied. Users can explore further details of each permission check, including files, shell, and other tools, while their credentials remain masked.
Subagents are presented as cards or swimlanes, displaying the task, live context and output tokens, steps, and a running clock. An advisor panel shows the timeline for consults, while a receipt and log display the duration, edits, errors, cost, and a running log for the session.
Installation requires Claude Code version 2.1.287 or later, as mods are an early-access feature. Users can install the mod through the plugin marketplace, terminal commands, or by cloning the repository for a one-time session. The installer may warn about missing configuration options, but the default settings work fine. Users can control the layout of the dashboard using various commands and key bindings.
The Flightdeck mod provides a comprehensive view of Claude Code sessions, allowing users to monitor context, cost, and permissions in real-time. This enables users to detect compactions before they occur, audit permission checks, follow subagents as cards or swimlanes, and review advisor and consultant insights. While the mod is built on an early-access API, it does not interfere with Claude Code's normal functioning and only observes session events without denying, rewriting, or delaying tool calls.
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