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Claude Code Message Timestamps — Productivity skill for Claude Code

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Show local time on every Claude Code message, and let Claude know when each prompt was sent.

How to install Claude Code Message Timestamps

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

What Claude Code Message Timestamps does

Show local time on every Claude Code message, and let Claude know when each prompt was sent. Zero-config plugin, cross-OS, graceful degradation.

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README

⏱ Message Timestamps for Claude Code

**See the time on every message in Claude Code — and let Claude know it too.**

![Demo: timestamps on each message, and Claude answering how long a task took](assets/demo.gif)

Illustration of the plugin in action — each reply is prefixed with the local time, and Claude can reason about elapsed time.

[09:12:54] Here's the plan: I'll start by …

Claude Code doesn't show *when* anything happened. Long sessions blur together: you can't tell how long a build took, when you asked something, or point a teammate to "the part around 09:15." This plugin fixes that in two ways, and installs in 15 seconds.

Why this exists

Timestamps are one of the most-requested missing features in Claude Code. At least **11 issues** ask for some form of it:

[#2441](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/2441) · [#60711](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/60711) · [#44763](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/44763) · [#30745](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/30745) · [#21051](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/21051) · [#63488](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/63488) · [#61672](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/61672) · [#52944](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/52944) · [#56855](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/56855) · [#49084](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/49084) · [#60492](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/60492)

This plugin is a working solution today, while we wait to see if it ships natively.

Why you want this (the 10-second version)

Without it	With it
"How long did that step take?" — no idea	Read it off the timestamps
"When did I ask that?" — scroll and guess	It's right there on the message
"Look at the part around 9am" — good luck	Every message is time-labeled
Claude has no sense of elapsed time	Claude knows