Building in public · v0.0.1

Stop tailing Claude's session log.

A VSCode extension that surfaces what Claude Code is doing — token burn, files touched, persistent memory — without leaving your editor.

View on GitHub What it does

Phase 1 ships read-only sidebar + status bar. Phase 2 adds mode toggles, MCP health, and an embedded claude-office panel.

Live token burn

Input, output, cache read, cache write — broken out and updated as Claude works. No more guessing the bill.

Files touched

Every Edit / Write / MultiEdit Claude has run this session, with click-to-open. Audit the diff at a glance.

Memory at hand

Your MEMORY.md entries listed inline. Click any line to open the underlying memory file.

Status bar HUD

Workspace, token total, file count — always visible. The cockpit you didn't know you needed.

Privacy — 100% local

Claude Code already touches everything sensitive on your machine. A tool that surfaces its state has no business phoning home.

No network calls. Zero fetch, http, or XMLHttpRequest in the source. Grep it yourself.
No telemetry, no analytics, no crash reporting. Ever.
Read-only. Phase 1 never writes to ~/.claude/. Only readFileSync, readdirSync, statSync, watch.
Bounded reads. Only ~/.claude/projects/<encoded-cwd>/ and its memory/MEMORY.md.
Sandboxed webview. Strict CSP: default-src 'none'; connect-src 'none'; form-action 'none'.
Zero runtime dependencies. No supply chain to audit at runtime.

Open source. Read the full privacy policy or audit the source.

Why

Claude Code stores rich state on disk: session JSONL, persistent memory, hooks, MCP config. The CLI surfaces almost none of it. Cockpit reads what's already there and gives you a passive HUD instead of tail -f.

It's read-only by design in v1 — Claude Code is the source of truth. Cockpit just makes the truth visible.

Install (dev)

git clone https://github.com/sboghossian/claude-cockpit.git
cd claude-cockpit
npm install
npm run compile

Then open in VSCode and press F5.

Roadmap

Phase 1 — Read-only sidebar, status bar, memory index shipping
Phase 2 — Mode toggle, model swap, MCP health, embedded claude-office next
Phase 3 — Cross-project session search, multi-session dashboard, skill palette