Show HN: What's Agent Doing – a Claude Code UI mod that explains each step

Category: devtools

Tags: claude-code, cli, observability, developer-tools, plugin, ai-assistant

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 7, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

What's Agent Doing is a Claude Code plugin (mod) that displays a live, plain-English status box above the prompt, showing each step the AI agent is taking, its duration, and expandable history. It improves transparency and debuggability of long agent runs by making commands and state changes understandable at a glance.

Target audience: developer tool users, AI-assisted developers, DevOps engineers

Repository: https://github.com/tzafrir/whats-agent-doing · TypeScript · MIT · 7 stars

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