What is hud-configure?

A guided setup for choosing how a Claude HUD displays information such as the model, context usage, language, layout, theme, and other status details.

Use it when setting up the HUD for the first time or changing an existing display's layout, preset, language, theme, visibility, or custom line.

It makes the display configurable without manually editing its settings file, while preserving advanced settings that the guided setup does not change.

hud-configure — Skill for Claude Code by johnleeGitHub

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.

Any agent

npx skills add johnleeGitHub/claude-hud-enhanced --skill hud-configure

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/johnleeGitHub/claude-hud-enhanced

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-hud-enhanced, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 5,914 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	$0.00018	$0.05914
Opus 5.5	$0.00007	$0.02366
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00004	$0.01183
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00591

Measured 2mo ago against content hash ae5a7ddd2926, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hud-configure 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.

skills/hud-configure/SKILL.md · 527 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 527 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Configure Claude HUD

FIRST: Use the Read tool to load ~/.claude/plugins/claude-hud-enhanced/config.json if it exists.

Store current values and note whether config exists (determines which flow to use).

Always On (Core Features)

These are always enabled and NOT configurable:

Model name [Opus]
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Advanced settings such as colors.*, pathLevels, display.timeFormat, display.usageThreshold, display.usageValue, display.environmentThreshold, display.contextWarningThreshold, and display.contextCriticalThreshold are preserved when saving but are not edited by this guided flow.

Two Flows Based on Config State

Flow A: New User (no config)

Questions: Layout → Preset → Language → Theme → Turn Off → Turn On → Custom Line

Flow B: Update Config (config exists)

Questions: Turn Off → Turn On → Git Style → Layout/Reset → Theme → Language → Custom Line (7 questions max)

Flow A: New User (7 Questions)

Q1: Layout

header: "Layout"
question: "Choose your HUD layout:"
multiSelect: false
options:
- "Expanded (Recommended)" - Split into semantic lines (identity, project, environment, usage)
- "Compact" - Everything on one line
- "Compact + Separators" - One line with separator before activity

Q2: Preset

header: "Preset"
question: "Choose a starting configuration:"
multiSelect: false
options:
- "Recommended" - Balanced full-featured setup (中文, Matrix主题, 所有功能)
- "Full" - Everything enabled (all features + advanced options)
- "Essential" - Activity + git, minimal info

Q3: Language

header: "Language"
question: "Choose your HUD label language:"
multiSelect: false
options:
- "English (Recommended)" - Default, simplest onboarding path
- "中文" - Show HUD labels and status text in Chinese

Save as language: "en" or language: "zh-Hans".

Q4: Theme

header: "Theme"
question: "Choose your HUD color theme:"
multiSelect: false
options:
- "默认 (Default)" - 经典配色方案
- "Solarized 暗色" - 温暖的暗色主题
- "Dracula" - 紫色主题
- "Nord" - 北极蓝主题
- "Catppuccin Mocha" - 柔和的咖啡色调
- "Monokai" - 经典编辑器主题
- "Gruvbox" - 复古配色
- "霓虹 (Neon)" - 高对比霓虹灯效果
- "赛博朋克 (Synthwave)" - 80年代复古未来风格
- "黑客帝国 (Matrix)" - 经典绿色代码风格
- "日落 (Sunset)" - 温暖的日落渐变
- "海洋 (Ocean)" - 深海蓝色调

Read the full file on GitHub · 527 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.

2mo ago First seen · 527 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A ae5a7ddd2926

Subscribe to this mod's changes

hud-configure is a skill published in the GitHub repository johnleeGitHub/claude-hud-enhanced (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 5,914 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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