Spark HUD adds an animated HUD to Claude Code: limits, context, and cost

⚡ The gist in 5 seconds - Spark HUD is out — an animated HUD for Claude Code featuring the Claude mascot. - It shows: a live context window, Max plan limits (5-hour and 7-day) with a pace forecast, cost, subagents, and all open Claude windows. - It sits right above the terminal; the project is available on GitHub (Mel0nidas/spark-hud). ### 🔍 What was found A developer going by Mel0nidas has published a utility called spark-hud on GitHub — an animated HUD panel for Claude Code that uses the Claude mascot. The panel appears right above the terminal and brings together key telemetry from your work with the agent in one place. How it works: the HUD displays context window usage in real time, your current Max subscription limits — both the 5-hour and 7-day ones — with a pace forecast, the accumulated session cost, active subagents, and a list of all running Claude windows. This lets you see how much of your resources remain without leaving your workflow. ### 💡 Why it matters Claude Code is widely used for long agentic sessions, where it's critical to know when you're hitting plan limits or running out of context — natively, this data is scattered and not always easy to see. Spark HUD solves exactly this monitoring problem, competing with other third-party dashboards for CLI agents. The project is open source, so you can install it and adapt it to your workflow right now.