Maestro orchestrates your agents. Podium is where you stand to watch the whole performance.
When a Maestro pipeline spins up — grooming agent, backend agent, QA agent, all running in parallel — Podium captures every hook event the Claude Code harness fires and streams it to a live browser dashboard. No polling your terminal. No extra LLM calls. No config beyond a one-time hook registration.
Open the dashboard. Watch your agents work.
Install
/plugin install podium@wp-media
/podium setup ← registers hooks once (restart Claude Code after)
/podium start ← opens http://localhost:4820
That's it. Hooks are registered globally or per-project — your call.
What You Get
Live Dashboard
The moment a session starts, a card appears. Watch agents spawn in real time, see the current tool being used, track cost accumulating, get a browser notification if something goes wrong. Two sessions running in parallel? Both on screen, side by side.
Session Detail — the full picture
Click any session and step inside:
- Conversation tab — the full agent transcript, thinking blocks expanded, no truncation
- Agents tab — the agent tree: who spawned whom, which ones ran in parallel, leaf nodes you can click straight into their conversation
- Timeline — every tool call in order, filterable by type or status. An error chip in the header counts failures — click it to jump straight to the bad events
- Thinking tab — the Decision log. Extended thinking blocks extracted and grouped by agent, so you can read the reasoning chain without digging through raw output
- Run Summary — a 3-line digest at the top of every completed session: what ran, how long, what it cost
Annotate any session with a private sticky note (stored locally, never sent anywhere). Export it as a self-contained JSON bundle to share with a teammate or archive for later.
Cross-Session Search
Cmd+K anywhere in the dashboard. Search across session names, tool outputs, summaries, error messages — across your entire history. Results link straight to the session.
Import
Received an exported bundle from a colleague? Drop the .json on the Import page, preview the session before committing, then import it into your local Podium with one click.
Activity Feed
A live stream of every tool call across every session. Filter by event type, status, or agent. Preset buttons for the most common views — Errors only, Tool calls only — and filters survive navigation within the tab.
Workflows
Two featured charts are front and center:
- Session Drilldown — drill into any session's agent tree, timeline, and tool sequence
- Error Propagation — see where errors originate and how they cascade
Eight more analytics charts live under Advanced Analytics, collapsed by default so they don't clutter the view. Expand what you need; your preference is remembered.
Analytics & Cost Tracking
Token usage broken down by model, tool call frequency, session concurrency, cost per session and per model. If a session crosses $1 in cost you get a browser notification. Same if an agent goes silent for more than 5 minutes.
Kanban Board
Sessions grouped by status — active, completed, error, abandoned. Drag a card to move it, or just use it to get a spatial overview of where your pipelines are.
Structured Bash Output
Podium parses tool output it recognises:
- PHPUnit — pass/fail counts, test count
- PHPCS — error + warning counts
gh pr — extracts the PR URL and links it to the sessiongit diff --stat — files changed, insertions, deletions
These show up as structured fields on the event, not buried in a wall of text.
Architecture (the short version)
Claude Code harness
│ fires on every hook event (zero token cost)
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~/.claude/podium/hook.mjs ← posts JSON, exits in < 1.5 s
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Express + SQLite + WebSocket :4820
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React SPA (pre-built, no build step on install)
Hooks run outside the LLM turn — they add no latency to your agent, consume no tokens, and cannot block a tool call. The JSONL transcript on disk is a backup; the live stream goes hook → server → WebSocket → browser.
