Image: GitHub
Why it mattersA long log of tool calls is hard to read at a glance. A map puts what the agent is doing in one picture.
Watching a coding agent work means reading a long list of tool calls as they scroll by. A developer called alexeyw released a Claude Code plugin called lot-map on 9 November. The plugin draws the same work as a picture. Three days later the repository had 396 stars on GitHub.
The plugin opens a pane beside the chat. Every tool call, model step, hook, skill and subagent sends a pulse from the centre to a named station. The stations are: You, Model, Memory, Files, Shell, Network, Browser, Agents, Skills and Hooks. Worn spokes on the map show which stations the agent uses most. Two clock hands rotate, one every minute, one every ten.
What it does for a Claude Code user
A session that runs for an hour can produce hundreds of lines of tool logs. A reader has to scan them in order to see the shape of the work. The map keeps the picture in one place. When the agent reads a file, the Files station pulses. When the agent calls an MCP server, the Network station pulses. The context window fill shows as a percentage.
alexeyw says the plugin runs on the user's machine and sends nothing out. The README states that the plugin makes no network requests, reads no files and runs no processes. The one thing stored between sessions is the model name per folder.
What is in the repository
The repository is MIT-licensed. The author tested it on Claude Code 2.1.321 on macOS. Users have reported it working on Windows too. The plugin installs through Claude Code's plugin marketplace. It supports six languages: English, Russian, Spanish, French, German and Italian.
Where it fits
A Claude Code user who runs long sessions can see at a glance what the agent is doing. A user writing new skills or hooks can see which ones fire in a run. A reviewer paired with another engineer on a shared session can follow along without reading every line.
The plugin covers Claude Code only. The README names no other coding agent. The author has not said whether Codex, Gemini CLI or Antigravity are on the list. A team that wants the same view across those tools would have to wait or build its own.
The traction is early. 396 stars in three days from a solo author is a strong start. It places the plugin next to other small Claude Code tools readers have picked up. A Claude Code user may want to try this on the next long session.
Source
alexeyw/lot-map on GitHub, MIT-licensed. lot-map README.
This item was written by an AI system from the linked source. Reveneau is responsible for what it publishes.
Get AI News in your inbox
New developer tools, model and agent releases, and how teams are actually using them to release software. Short, and only when there is something worth reading.
