setup

A setup command for configuring claude-hud, a display that shows coding-session information in the command-line interface. It checks for leftover files from incomplete installations before setup.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect the claude-hud installation on macOS, Linux, or Windows and prepare its status display.
Why use it?
It helps avoid configuration problems caused by mismatched cache files, registry entries, or temporary installation files.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/xyzbit/claude-plugins/setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xyzbit/claude-plugins
Per session 9 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,857 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00009 $0.02857
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.01429
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00571
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00286

Measured 2d ago against content hash acadfc6bff49, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

setup scanned grade D with 2 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 2d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

REGISTRY_EXISTS=$(grep -q "claude-hud" ~/.claude/plugins/installed_plugins.json 2>/dev/null && echo "YES" || echo "NO")

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

rm -rf ~/.claude/plugins/cache/claude-hud
claude-hud/commands/setup.md · 262 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 262 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Note: Placeholders like {RUNTIME_PATH}, {SOURCE}, and {GENERATED_COMMAND} should be substituted with actual detected values.

Step 0: Detect Ghost Installation (Run First)

Check for inconsistent plugin state that can occur after failed installations:

macOS/Linux:

# Check 1: Cache exists?
CACHE_EXISTS=$(ls -d ~/.claude/plugins/cache/claude-hud 2>/dev/null && echo "YES" || echo "NO")

# Check 2: Registry entry exists?
REGISTRY_EXISTS=$(grep -q "claude-hud" ~/.claude/plugins/installed_plugins.json 2>/dev/null && echo "YES" || echo "NO")

# Check 3: Temp files left behind?
TEMP_FILES=$(ls -d ~/.claude/plugins/cache/temp_local_* 2>/dev/null | head -1)

echo "Cache: $CACHE_EXISTS | Registry: $REGISTRY_EXISTS | Temp: ${TEMP_FILES:-none}"

Windows (PowerShell):

$cache = Test-Path "$env:USERPROFILE\.claude\plugins\cache\claude-hud"
$registry = (Get-Content "$env:USERPROFILE\.claude\plugins\installed_plugins.json" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -match "claude-hud"
$temp = Get-ChildItem "$env:USERPROFILE\.claude\plugins\cache\temp_local_*" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Write-Host "Cache: $cache | Registry: $registry | Temp: $($temp.Count) files"

Interpreting Results

Cache Registry Meaning Action
YES YES Normal install (may still be broken) Continue to Step 1
YES NO Ghost install - cache orphaned Clean up cache
NO YES Ghost install - registry stale Clean up registry
NO NO Not installed Continue to Step 1

If temp files exist, a previous install was interrupted. Clean them up.

Cleanup Commands

If ghost installation detected, ask user if they want to reset. If yes:

macOS/Linux:

# Remove orphaned cache
rm -rf ~/.claude/plugins/cache/claude-hud

# Remove temp files from failed installs
rm -rf ~/.claude/plugins/cache/temp_local_*

# Reset registry (removes ALL plugins - warn user first!)
# Only run if user confirms they have no other plugins they want to keep:
echo '{"version": 2, "plugins": {}}' > ~/.claude/plugins/installed_plugins.json

Read the full file on GitHub · 262 lines

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.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 262 lines · 9 tokens per session scan D acadfc6bff49

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setup is a command published in the GitHub repository xyzbit/claude-plugins (27 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 2,857 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 2 findings (reads agent configuration directories, recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.