An installer for grok-hud, a command-line tool that displays Grok session usage outside Grok's text interface. It builds the tool, creates its configuration, and can add the command to your system path.

Use it to install grok-hud, optionally make it available as a global command, and check that it runs.

It prepares the tool and its default settings so you can monitor a Grok session from another terminal.

setup — Command for Claude Code by xiyouMc/grok-hud

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xiyouMc/grok-hud

agentmods

npx agentmods add commands/xiyoumc/grok-hud/setup

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 499 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00019	$0.00499
Opus 5.5	$0.00008	$0.00200
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00004	$0.00100
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00050

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 01432498b12f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

setup scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

commands/setup.md · 68 lines

What it actually says

/grok-hud:setup

Install the grok-hud CLI so you can watch Grok context usage outside the TUI (Grok has no native statusline API).

Arguments

$ARGUMENTS

--link — also run npm link so grok-hud is on PATH

Steps (run them)

Resolve plugin root:
- Prefer env GROK_PLUGIN_ROOT if set
- Else use the directory that contains this plugin's package.json / bin/grok-hud.js
Build:

PLUGIN_ROOT="${GROK_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$(pwd)}"
# If not already in the plugin dir, locate it:
#   grok plugin details grok-hud
cd "$PLUGIN_ROOT"
npm install
npm run build
chmod +x bin/grok-hud.js

Write default config (idempotent):

node bin/grok-hud.js --init-config

If user passed --link (or asked for global install):

npm link

Smoke test:

node bin/grok-hud.js --once
# or, if linked:
grok-hud --once

Tell the user next steps:

Goal	Command
One-shot snapshot	`grok-hud` or `/grok-hud:status`
Live pane	`grok-hud --watch` or `/grok-hud:watch`
tmux bar	`set -g status-right '#(grok-hud --tmux --no-color) \| %H:%M'`
Config	`~/.grok/plugins/grok-hud/config.json` or `/grok-hud:configure`

Notes

Data is read-only from ~/.grok/active_sessions.json and session signals.json / updates.jsonl.
Inside Grok TUI you can still use /context, /session-info, /usage.
If npm / node is missing, ask the user to install Node.js ≥ 18 first.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

2mo ago First seen · 68 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 01432498b12f

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setup is a command published in the GitHub repository xiyouMc/grok-hud (8 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 499 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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