Crow's Nest Lookout

Crow's Nest

Team observability for Claude Code. See what your fleet is building, in real time.

$ bash <(curl -fsSL crow.phpro.be/install.sh)

Requires PHP 8.4+, Composer, and Claude Code CLI

What is Crow's Nest?

Claude Code is powerful, but it is a single-player experience. You have no idea what your team is working on, how they use the tool, or when they are done.

Crow's Nest is a gamified team dashboard that hooks into Claude Code sessions across your entire team. It collects lightweight metadata over TCP, stores it in SQLite, and presents a live terminal UI you can access over SSH.

Every developer gets a pirate identity based on their git email. No code content is ever transmitted. Just signals from the crow's nest.

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What You Get

For developers and AI teams alike

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Live Activity Feed

Watch your team's Claude Code sessions stream in real time. See who is working on what, which tools they are using, and how much code is changing.

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Pirate Identities

Every developer gets a unique pirate name derived from their git email. 96 adjectives, 80 nouns, 7,680 possible identities.

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Automatic Timelogs

Session metadata is collected automatically. No manual time tracking needed. Export session data for billing and reporting.

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Team Insights

Understand adoption rates, tool usage patterns, and productivity trends. AI-generated session summaries give you the highlights.

Set Sail

Get your crew on board in under a minute

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Run the installer. It clones the repo, installs dependencies, and activates the Claude Code plugin.
bash <(curl -fsSL crow.phpro.be/install.sh)
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That is it. The plugin hooks into Claude Code automatically. Start a session and your events will appear on the dashboard.
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To view the live dashboard, just SSH in:
ssh crow@crow.phpro.be -p 1718
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This requires the PHPro devkey. If your key is not loaded by default, add this to your ~/.ssh/config: 
Host crow.phpro.be
    User crow
    Port 1718
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/phprodev.id_rsa
    IdentitiesOnly yes
Prerequisites: PHP 8.4+, Composer, Claude Code CLI, PHPro devkey (~/.ssh/phprodev.id_rsa)
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Privacy first. Crow's Nest transmits only metadata: session IDs, tool names, project names, git identity, and line change stats. No source code, no file contents, no prompts. Your code stays on your machine.

Want to disable Crow's Nest? Run ~/.crow/uninstall.sh to remove the plugin and clean up.