howl
ai-screams/HowlPlugin
Howl is a blazing-fast Go statusline HUD for Claude Code. It reads JSON telemetry from stdin and renders a rich ANSI statusline with 13 real-time metrics: model badge, context usage bar, session cost, duration, git status, code changes, response speed, cache efficiency, API wait ratio, cost velocity, OAuth quota, active tools, and running agents. Features adaptive layouts (2-4 lines normal, 2 lines danger mode at 85%+ context), 4 configurable presets, 12 individual metric toggles, and ...
Why this score
Popularity score: 55/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Nov 4, 2026 at commit db4912c6b8b5, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
What its code does:
- Runs shell commands Common for dev tools. Read the commands it runs.scripts/install.sh:59 and 1 more
- Includes scripts in hidden folders Folders starting with a dot are easy to miss when you read a repo..githooks/commit-msg, .githooks/pre-commit
A scan lists patterns in the code. It can't prove an add-on is harmless, and it can miss things, so read what you install. How we scan
Alternatives
Nothing from another maker does quite the same job yet.