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Shellcast — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

Live inline cards for every shell command Claude Code runs: streaming output, progress bars, timing and exit status right in the transcript.

How to install Shellcast

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

What Shellcast does

Live inline cards for every shell command Claude Code runs: streaming output, progress bars, timing and exit status right in the transcript.

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README

shellcast

Live inline cards for every shell command Claude runs, right in the Claude Code transcript. No side panel.

I got tired of my agent's shells being reduced to this:

Claude Code's footer: auto mode on · 1 shell, 2 monitors · 1 agent

What is that shell doing? Is it stuck? How far along is it? shellcast puts every shell command Claude runs right in the transcript as a live card, and keeps long background jobs in sight while the agent goes on writing. Quick commands stay as one-line rows with their own icons. Completed tool blocks collapse into a summary of the work and an icon strip, keeping the whole sequence easy to scan:

Stock Claude Code (left) · shellcast (right)

The same prompt, tool calls, file contents, and eight-second build, with synchronized scripted replies. A search, a file read, and nine shell commands collapse into descriptive blocks with their icons intact; three Write summaries stay compact. Icons use SHELLCAST_ICONS=nerd-bold.

Open the full-size comparison, individual before / after videos, or the short icons + writes demo.

While a command is running you can see its output, progress and throughput. Once it finishes, the card folds into a single line:

✔ ⚗ Run the test suite  ⎿ Tests  73 passed (73)              5.3s · 13 lines  ▸ details
✔ ⚙ Production build  ⎿ ✓ built in 4.61s                      5.3s · 6 lines  ▸ details
✘ $ Lint t