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Why it mattersA long Claude Code or Codex run becomes a wall of text. One pane that shows every running subagent, its model and its current step is easier to follow.
A long Claude Code run becomes a wall of text in your terminal. You start one agent. It hands work to three subagents. Ten minutes later you cannot tell which one is doing what. Claude Super Sidebar is an open-source plugin that puts a status pane next to the chat. The repository has 155 stars under the Apache-2.0 licence. It was created six days ago by Zafer-Liu.
What the plugin shows
The plugin opens a native Claude Code pane called 状态 · Status. It lists the main agent and every subagent as a tree, with parent and child connectors. For each agent it shows the model, the mode, the role, the observed token use and the context used. The pane also shows elapsed time and the number of tool calls so far. A colour marks each agent as running, waiting, completed or failed. The plugin reads this from Claude Code's own session events, so it needs no extra model call.
The task-flow panel
A second section groups the current conversation into stages. Each stage has a short title such as a plan step or a tool call. The plugin shows up to the 30 most recent steps for the current user request. Each new user request clears the previous flow. The maintainers write that verification messages are kept separate from stage descriptions. An exit code of zero is labelled as what the agent reported, not as proof that the code works.
The Codex dashboard
For users of the standalone Codex CLI or Codex App, the plugin includes a read-only browser dashboard. It reads the local JSONL rollout files Codex writes under CODEX_HOME/sessions. The dashboard runs on 127.0.0.1:4317 and refreshes every two seconds. The maintainers tested it against Codex CLI 0.162.1 and local Codex App sessions. The dashboard cannot drive conversations, and the local Codex rollout format is not a stable public API.
Setup and limits
The plugin is written against Claude Code engine 2.1.299, using the early-access plugin API. The maintainers say availability may differ between distributions and versions. Installation is one marketplace command inside the Claude Code CLI. The project also notes which checks have not been run on the current build. The list includes isolation regressions and native engine validation. That honesty is unusual for a 155-star project. Read it before adopting.
A visual pane does not change what the agent does. It changes how fast a user can tell what the agent is doing. A team that runs long multi-agent tasks in Claude Code often loses track of which subagent is active. This plugin lists them. Teams on Codex can watch a sandboxed run without opening the rollout file by hand. The Codex side is read-only and attached to one project path at startup. A team running sessions in several directories needs one server per directory.
Source
- Claude Super Sidebar: Zafer-Liu/claude-super-sidebar on GitHub
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