# Howl

> 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 ...

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/plugin-ai-screams-howl-howl
- tashan id: plugin:ai-screams/howl/howl
- Source: https://github.com/ai-screams/Howl
- Type: plugin
- Category: devtools
- tashan score: 48.0 / 100
- Adoption: 17.0
- Upkeep: 93.0
- Freshness: 84.0
- Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use
- Health: active
- Instruction depth: solid
- GitHub stars: 5
- License: MIT
- Official: no

## Install

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

## Security audit
Not scanned. We audit npm-published capabilities; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue. This is not a clean bill of health.

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Measured 2026-09-13 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.