Claude Session Topics

"What was I working on in that other terminal?"

AI-generated topic summaries for your Claude Code sessions. See what each session is about at a glance.

Install

# Inside Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add dreamiurg/claude-session-topics
/plugin install claude-session-topics@dreamiurg

# Restart Claude Code, then configure your status line
/claude-session-topics:setup-statusline

That's it. Topics appear automatically after a few messages.

To force a topic refresh anytime:

/claude-session-topics:regenerate-topic

What You Get

Topics follow a <theme>: <activity> format with a circle progress indicator:

◔ OAuth debug: fixing validation
◑ Blog post: adding snippets
◕ API refactor: updating endpoints

The circle shows progress toward the next topic refresh:

• ○ (empty) → ◔ → ◑ → ◕ → ● (full)

Topics generate using an adaptive schedule:

• Messages 1, 2, 3, 5, 8: Early updates while context develops
• Every 10 messages after that: Regular refreshes

Generation happens in the background (<50ms overhead) using Claude Haiku to summarize your session.

Configuration

Variable	Default	Description
CLAUDE_TOPIC_THRESHOLD	10	Messages between regeneration
CLAUDE_TOPIC_CONTEXT_LINES	100	Transcript lines to analyze
CLAUDE_TOPIC_MAX_CHARS	50	Max topic length
CLAUDE_TOPIC_DEBUG	0	Enable debug logging

Troubleshooting

"waiting for conversation" — Normal. Need a few messages for context.

Topics not showing? — Run export CLAUDE_TOPIC_DEBUG=1 and check stderr.

Requirements

• Claude Code CLI
• Bun 1.0+ or Node.js 18+

How It Works

A stop hook fires after each Claude response, triggering topic-generator. Every N messages, it spawns a background process that:

1. Pulls context from claude-mem (if available) or parses the transcript
2. Sends it to Haiku with a summary prompt
3. Writes to $TMPDIR/claude-topic-<session_id>.json

topic-display reads the state file and outputs the topic with progress indicator. session-cleanup removes temp files when the session ends.

For the full story: Session Topic Summaries in Claude Code Status Line

Development

Prerequisites

• Bun 1.0+
• TypeScript 5.7+

Build

bun install
bun run build

Test

bun test
bun run test:watch  # Watch mode

Type Check

bun run lint

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Built by @dreamiurg because remembering context shouldn't require context.