claudenews — DevFeed for Claude Code
Switching to another task while Claude works costs you context.
Just staring at the terminal is boring. claudenews fills those short
waits with dev news — so the idle time isn't wasted and you never lose
your place.
Claude가 다른 명령을 처리하는 동안 다른 일을 하자니 컨텍스트 스위칭
비용이 들고, 터미널만 보고 있자니 심심하셨죠? 그 짧은 시간을 개발
뉴스로 채우고, 흐름은 그대로 유지하세요.
A Claude Code plugin that surfaces Hacker News, GitHub Trending, and
per-language dev & news sources in the status line during agent wait time —
auto-translated into your OS language, with short summaries that fade in as
Claude fetches them in the background.
The title is a clickable link, ▲ score / 💬 comments show for HN
items, and the trailing hint rotates through the commands (dropped
automatically if the terminal is too narrow). Korean / Japanese /
Chinese users see the same item auto-translated — no configuration:
Install (30 seconds)
Inside Claude Code:
/plugin marketplace add bhpark1013/claudenews
/plugin install claudenews@claudenews
/reload-plugins
/claudenews:setup
/reload-plugins activates the hooks and slash commands without a full
restart. Then restart Claude Code once so the status line takes effect —
the next time the agent thinks, a news item rotates in.
Why you might want this
- No API key. Translation and summary use your existing Claude Code session
(Haiku, background-priced). No OpenAI key, no separate billing.
- Auto-detects your OS language. macOS
AppleLocale, then $LANG,
then Python locale. Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, etc. all work without
configuration. English users get titles untranslated.
- Coexists with your existing status line. OMC HUD, git status, custom
scripts — point at them via
parentStatusLine in ~/.claudenews/config.json
and claudenews appends underneath rather than replacing.
- Auto-fits your terminal width. Detects cmux → tmux → iTerm2 → stty so
titles & summaries truncate to the actual column count, not a static 120.
- GitHub repo summaries are accurate. When a GitHub repo's description is
empty, claudenews falls back to the README's first paragraph via the GitHub
API instead of showing "Contribute to … by creating an account on GitHub".
- No separate windows. Everything happens inline in your Claude Code
session — the source list is a plain menu you read and toggle by id.
Commands
The source list is the menu: run /claudenews:list to see every source
(id + flag + on/off) and toggle by id. You can also just ask Claude in
plain language — "show my news sources", "이 뉴스 자세히 보여줘",
"change the news language to Korean", "send claudenews feedback" — and
the right command runs automatically.
| Command | What it does |
|---|
/claudenews:setup | Wire the status line wrapper (run once after install) |
/claudenews:update | Update to the latest version in one step |
/claudenews:feed | Expand the current news item (HN comments, repo page, etc.) |
/claudenews:feed latest | Show the 5 most recent news items |
/claudenews:translate ko | Force a target language (ko, ja, zh, es, …) |
/claudenews:translate off | Disable translation |
/claudenews:list | Show every source inline; toggle one or more by id (/claudenews:list cnn bbc hn) |
/claudenews:feedback | Send feedback / a bug report / a feature request to the maintainer |
/claudenews:teardown | Remove status line wiring (run before /plugin remove) |
Updating
/claudenews:update
/reload-plugins
/claudenews:update pulls the latest version, refreshes the cache, and
updates the status-line launcher in one step. /reload-plugins then
activates the new hooks and commands (a Claude Code runtime action a
plugin can't do itself). You never need to re-run /claudenews:setup —
the status line auto-tracks the newest installed version.
Sources
Sources are a catalog you choose from with /claudenews:list:
