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Agent Max — Development skill for Claude Code

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Live view of Claude Code agents and subagents in VS Code: the tree, per-agent context and token spend.

How to install Agent Max

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open davidalmeida90/agent-max and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Agent Max does

Live view of Claude Code agents and subagents in VS Code: the tree, per-agent context and token spend. Local only, no network.

Alternatives in Development

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Dario — A local OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible proxy that brings your Claude Pro/Max subscription to Cursor, Cline 485 ★
Retrospective — Context Network Retrospective Agent Prompt 145 ★

README

Agent Max

**See what your Claude Code agents are actually doing, while they do it.**

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When a session delegates, the work disappears. You see *"Agent launched successfully"* and then nothing until it returns. Agent Max puts the whole tree on screen while it runs, so you can watch every agent work, see what it is holding against its context window, and know what it has spent.

![Agents appearing and working during a run](docs/live.gif)

Install

**From VS Code:** open the Extensions view, search `Agent Max`, click Install.

**From the command line:**

code --install-extension Davidarias01.agent-max

Opening it

**Install it, then click the button at the bottom left of VS Code.** That is the whole thing. The item says **Agents**, it sits in the status bar next to the errors and warnings counts, and clicking it opens the exhibit beside your code.

![Clicking the Agents button in the status bar to open the exhibit](docs/open.gif)

**If you do not see the button, restart VS Code.** A freshly installed extension does not always activate in the window you installed it from. One reload and the button is there for good.

During a run the button turns into a live count, `2/8 agents`, so you can tell w