TUI

The crewkit TUI wraps Claude Code in a terminal interface with a collapsible sidebar showing session metrics, git context, and AI summaries.

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Layout

The TUI has two panels:

• Main panel — Full Claude Code experience. Everything you type goes directly to Claude.
• Sidebar — Real-time session data, toggled with Tab.

The sidebar has collapsible sections. Press j/k (or arrow keys) to navigate sections when the sidebar is focused.

Sidebar sections

Context

Shows your context window usage:

• Context window — How full the current context is (tokens used / total window)
• Total tokens — Cumulative tokens across all turns in this session

Session

• Model — Which Claude model is active
• Duration — How long the session has been running
• Turns — Number of conversation turns
• Compactions — How many times context was compacted

Git

• Branch — Current git branch
• Changes — Uncommitted file count
• Recent commits — Latest commit messages

Summary

An AI-generated summary of what's been accomplished in the session. Updates periodically as the conversation progresses.

Conventions

Shows active playbook conventions and any challenges logged during the session.

Plan

Tracks the active plan file if Claude is working with a structured plan.

Keybindings

Everything else passes through to Claude Code.

Session reset

Type /clear new in Claude to reset the session context. crewkit detects this and resets:

• Telemetry counters (tokens, cost)
• Summary state
• Start time and message count
• Challenge tracker
• Active plan

The session continues with a fresh context window.

Cost tracking

The sidebar shows real-time cost estimates based on token usage. A brief flash animation highlights cost changes so you notice spending spikes.

Next steps

• CLI command reference
• Dashboard overview