Flightdeck

A Claude Code mod that puts a live agent dashboard in your terminal: context and cost, an advisor timeline, every permission check, and your subagents as cards or swimlanes. Every number comes from a real session event, and nothing leaves your machine.

Install · What you see · What it can reach · Configure · Troubleshooting · What's new

Install

Inside Claude Code (2.1.287 or later):

/plugin marketplace add scasella/claude-flightdeck
/plugin install flightdeck@claude-flightdeck
/reload-plugins
/flightdeck

From the terminal, or from a clone

claude plugin marketplace add scasella/claude-flightdeck
claude plugin install flightdeck@claude-flightdeck

Or load it straight from a clone, for one session:

git clone https://github.com/scasella/claude-flightdeck
claude --plugin-dir ./claude-flightdeck

The installer may say config options aren't set; the defaults are fine, and /config changes them.

Mods are an early-access Claude Code feature and their API can change between releases. If something breaks, see Troubleshooting.

What you see

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9ad0fcc3-c81c-427a-a743-f7b6c49f5885

Docked beside the transcript	Inline above the prompt
	On the main screen, without fullscreen, the pane is a summary of at most 8 rows; up to 3 agents join it when the session has subagents.

Panel	Shows	From
main	model, effort, permission mode, request count; a context gauge with compactions (⟲); cost and the first two rate-limit windows when your plan reports them, with the time to each reset (↻) from 56 columns; the last main-loop request's time to first token and output tokens per second	turn.step, session.measure, session.compact, $.session.usage()
architect	consults on a timeline, whether one is running, how long the last took; optionally the moment of each consult; the first line of a subagent architect's advice	a spawn of a matching agent type, or a matching server tool in the assistant's rows
gate	one cell per permission check: green allowed without asking, blue decided by the auto-mode classifier or you and then run, amber pending, red ✗ denied, dim if made inside a subagent. Totals, and a drill-down per tool family with credentials masked	tool.check, settled by the tool.call around it
agents	cards side by side while they fit: the task, type, live context and output tokens, steps, a running clock, max_tokens in red. Beyond that, swimlanes on one time axis	agent.spawn, turn.step, tool.call, turn.complete
loops	model loops that match no card: workflow agents, compactions, memory forks	turn.step ids no card claims
receipt	the running turn, or the last one: duration, agents, edits, errors, cost added	turn.start, turn.complete
log	prompts, spawns, completions, consults, edits, errors and denials; filtered to one agent while you view its transcript	all of the above

Connectors animate only while work flows: a turn is running, an agent is running, or a consult is open. Panels with nothing to show take no room, so a session without subagents shows just the main box and the log.

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