Is Howl safe and trustworthy?

tashan scores Howl on public evidence — tashan score 48.0/100, it is currently active. Audit scope: OSV advisories, install-time scripts, build provenance and declared permission surface. We do not review source code or execute the capability.

How do I install Howl?

Configure it from its source repository — it is a remote / registry server.

3 GitHub contributors, source: ai-screams/Howl.

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Howl

plugin

Howl is a blazing-fast Go statusline HUD for Claude Code. It reads JSON telemetry from stdin and renders a rich ANSI statusline with 13 real-time metrics: model badge, context usage bar, session cost, duration, git status, code changes, response speed, cache efficiency, API wait ratio, cost velocity, OAuth quota, active tools, and running agents. Features adaptive layouts (2-4 lines normal, 2 lines danger mode at 85%+ context), 4 configurable presets, 12 individual metric toggles, and ...

Works with: Claude Code (native)
native: this artifact type is that client's own format

Category: Dev Tools & CI — see all ranked ›

Work: Agent configuration

Who it is for: Agent operator

Install (Claude Code):

/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
/plugin install howl@claude-community

solid

“25-badge wall, but each metric documented with its rendered string (Out:1K, main*).”

This grade is wrong ›

tashan score: 48.0
Instruction depth: 64.0 (solid — documents the job properly, with examples you could follow)
Adoption: 1 repos
Upkeep: 93.0
Freshness: 84.0
Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use — the rest are unknown, and the score is discounted for it
Health: active
GitHub stars: 5
Contributors: 3
License: MIT

Security audit

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Howl scores 48 today. Pro keeps the series, so you can see whether that is a project getting better or one on its way down.

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Measured 2026-09-13 · scorer s5 · how · something wrong here?