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Agent Standup

Turns local Claude Code/Codex/Mistral Vibe session files into a live animated 'team call' and a board of sessions; VS Code extension, terminal command or desktop app · github.com ↗

How we tested

Method: Shell on Linux box. npx -y @double_geste/agent-standup@1.38.0 under env -i with PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin, HOME=a scratch dir and npm_config_cache=a scratch dir. There was no claude binary and no API key in the environment. The server ran on 127.0.0.1:4799, and the pages were screenshotted with headless Chrome at 1280x800 with --virtual-time-budget=10000. I read the package source (server.js, demo.js, public/index.html) for the demo route, session path and network calls, then made fake Claude Code jsonl sessions (one valid, one malformed) under the throwaway HOME and queried /api/board, /api/session and /api/translate with curl.. Tester: Testbuilder2. Date: 2026-10-18T17:05-07:00.

Test log (from our notes)

What works

  • `npx -y @double_geste/agent-standup@1.38.0 --port 4799` (no --open) started a local server
  • printed 'Agent Standup → http://localhost:4799' and bound to 127.0.0.1 only. `--version` printed 1.38.0. With no session files in the throwaway HOME, `status` says 'idle', `status --json` returns zero counts with an empty session list, `statusline` prints an empty line (exit 0)
  • and /api/board returns []. The page shows 'Waiting for a session' and a '▶ Watch the demo' button. Demo mode is selected with the ?demo=1 URL parameter (or Source › Demo in the menu)
  • and ?demo=1&at=N freezes it at event N. In headless Chrome, ?demo=1&at=40 rendered the 'Demo — a team fixes a slow login' call with 4 agent cameras
  • roles
  • tool status
  • token counts and a timeline. I hand-made a Claude Code transcript at ~/.claude/projects/-tmp-tb2-fakeproj/<uuid>.jsonl
  • using the path from server.js. Within 3 s it appeared on /api/board
  • in `status --json` (state 'turn'
  • titled with the first user message) and in the UI as tb2/fakeproj
  • with '✓ your turn · Anything else?' and 102 tokens
  • which equals the sum of the usage I planted. A transcript with garbage lines was parsed
  • skipping the bad lines and keeping the valid record. A missing session returns 404
  • a path-traversal proj returns 400
  • and `--port abc` is refused with exit 2. With no `claude` binary and no ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, POST /api/translate (fr) and /api/quips return the original text with ok:false
  • and the server showed no outbound sockets.

What breaks

  • Nothing broke in what I tested. Untested: the VS Code extension and desktop app, Codex, Mistral Vibe and Cowork session sources
  • real Claude Code sessions with sub-agents (my session was a hand-made fake)
  • translation and jokes through a real Claude login or API key, Kokoro natural voices (750 MB on-demand install
  • which I didn't click)
  • video export and clips
  • the paid Halloween character pack (2 €
  • sold through agent-standup.com), FIP radio music
  • and `statusline` inside Claude Code. The UI shows a 'Buy the dev a coffee' link
  • a 2 € pack offer and an install prompt for the 750 MB voices. I watched the server's sockets only at a few points
  • and I didn't monitor the browser page's own requests.

Release claims checked

  • unverified By default it never calls Claude; it reads session files Claude Code, Codex, Mistral Vibe and Cowork already write source
  • unverified Calls Claude only to translate (FR/ES/PT-BR) or for jokes, using your Claude login or ANTHROPIC_API_KEY source
  • unverified Zero token cost source
  • verified Built-in demo needs no sessions or account source
  • verified `agent-standup status` / `statusline` for status bars source
  • unverified VS Code extension and desktop app source
  • unverified Natural voices installed on demand, nothing leaves your machine (UI text in 1.38.0)

Test history

No prior results — this is the first recorded test.

Quality score

4/5 — our subjective hands-on rating on a 1–5 scale.

Quality 4 under the briefing rubric: every tested task passed (server start, empty state, demo via ?demo=1, a fake Claude Code session showing up in the UI and CLI, and the default no-LLM behaviour), and I tried edge cases (no sessions, malformed jsonl, bad port, traversal, missing session). It can't be a 5 because I didn't test it with real Claude Code sessions or inside VS Code. Confidence is moderate, because the session file was hand-made from reading the source. Marked partial: the README leads with the VS Code extension ('Runs as a VS Code extension, a terminal command, or a desktop app'; 'Just installed the extension?'), and the extension and desktop app were not tested; only the npx terminal/web path was.

Ranking in category

  1. Agent Standup — 4/5
  2. MCP Server Inspector (VS Code) — 4/5
  3. Graphtale (VS Code) — 3/5

Among tested tools in category group “vscode extension”. Ties share a score; tied tools are listed in no particular order.

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Where it was found

https://github.com/topics/claude-code (GitHub topic claude-code; repo created 2026-10-10, 269 stars, pushed 2026-10-18; npm @double_geste/agent-standup 1.38.0 (2026-10-17))

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