Claude RPC — Claude Code Status for VS Code

Live Claude Code status in your status bar, driven by claude-rpc's state files.

Tracks Claude Code only. Unlike editor-presence extensions, this never reports what you are editing — it mirrors what Claude is doing, and it has no network surface (the only request it ever makes is an optional probe of your own localhost dashboard).

What you get

• Status bar item — Working · my-app · 1.2M tok, Thinking, Needs you (highlighted — a permission prompt is waiting), Shipped after a push, Idle, Away.
• Hover — model, session duration, prompts/tool calls, token breakdown, today's hours, all-time totals, streak.
• Pause / resume the Discord card from the editor (writes the same pause.json marker as claude-rpc pause).
• Open the local dashboard, with a one-click offer to start the server if it isn't running.
• Click the item for the menu.

Requirements

claude-rpc set up (npx claude-rpc setup) so Claude Code's hooks write the state files this extension reads:

• <tmpdir>/claude-rpc/state.json — live session state (written by the hooks; works even with the Discord daemon stopped)
• ~/.claude-rpc/aggregate.json — lifetime stats (written by the scanner)

In remote / WSL setups the extension runs where Claude Code runs (extensionKind: workspace), so the files are always local to it.

Settings

Build from source

cd vscode-extension
npm run package        # → claude-rpc-vscode-<version>.vsix
code --install-extension claude-rpc-presence-*.vsix

Zero dependencies, plain CommonJS — nothing to compile.