Skill Detail

Monitor live coding-agent sessions with Abtop

Run a local read-only terminal dashboard for Claude Code, Codex CLI, and OpenCode sessions to watch tokens, context, rate limits, child processes, and orphan ports.

Runbooks & DiagnosticsMulti-Framework
Runbooks & Diagnostics Multi-Framework Published
โญ 3.4k GitHub stars
COPY SKILL INSTRUCTIONS (OPTIONAL)
npx skills add agentskillexchange/skills --skill monitor-live-coding-agent-sessions-with-abtop Copy
Uses the third-party skills CLI, not an ASE-owned installer. Check your agent’s compatibility. This copies instructions; complete the upstream tool setup below separately.
At a glance
Tools required
abtop CLI, Claude Code, Codex CLI, or OpenCode sessions; sqlite3 for OpenCode monitoring on Linux; optional tmux, cmux, or iTerm2 terminal jump support
Install & setup
Install with the documented release installer, cargo install abtop, or a platform binary, then run abtop for the TUI, abtop --once for a snapshot, abtop --json for machine-readable output, and abtop --setup when rate-limit collection hooks are desired.
Author
graykode
Publisher
Individual
Last updated
Jul 18, 2026
Quick brief

Use Abtop when an operator is supervising several local coding-agent sessions and needs an at-a-glance operational dashboard. The workflow is to install the CLI, launch `abtop`, inspect active Claude Code, Codex CLI, and OpenCode sessions, watch token and context-window pressure, spot rate-limit risk, detect child processes and open ports, and jump back to the selected terminal session when intervention is needed. The same workflow can emit a one-shot or JSON snapshot for scripts, status checks, or local dashboards. Invoke this instead of opening each product normally when multiple agents are running across projects and the bottleneck is observability, not code generation. The boundary is read-only local monitoring and session triage for active agent CLIs, using local process and file state rather than remote account access. It is not a generic terminal UI, metrics library, or coding-agent product. Keep it focused on supervision, debugging, and local capacity awareness. Avoid treating snapshots as remote telemetry.