claude-view Project Overview

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Asking which projects the claude-view server knows about
• Looking at one project's session history and branches
• Checking commit and contribution data for a project

Example prompts

• “Show me the project overview for the billing-service project.”
• “What projects do I have, and when was each one last active?”
• “Give me a project summary with branches and contributions for the website repo.”

Requirements

• The claude-view MCP server running on localhost, started with `npx claude-view`
• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): mcp__claude-view__projects_list_projects, mcp__claude-view__projects_list_project_sessions, mcp__claude-view__projects_list_project_branches, mcp__claude-view__contributions_get_contributions

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1List projects. Call mcpclaude-viewprojects_list_projects to get all projects. If the user asked about a specific project, find the match.
2. 2Get project sessions. For the target project, call mcpclaude-viewprojects_list_project_sessions with the project slug to get session…
3. 3Get branches. Call mcpclaude-viewprojects_list_project_branches with the project slug to see branch activity.
4. 4Get contributions. Call mcpclaude-viewcontributions_get_contributions to get commit and contribution data.
5. 5Present the project dashboard
6. 6If showing all projects, present a summary table instead of full details

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit ff3cdd1. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • mcp__claude-view__projects_list_projects
  • mcp__claude-view__projects_list_project_sessions
  • mcp__claude-view__projects_list_project_branches
  • mcp__claude-view__contributions_get_contributions

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • npx

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use npx, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

claude-view Project Overview loads about 3.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 43 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,031 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~43

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~3.1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from tombelieber/claude-view at commit ff3cdd1, republished under its MIT licence (© tombelieber). 1,031 words, ~3,076 tokens.

name

project-overview

description

Use when the user asks about a specific project or all projects — e.g. 'show me project X', 'project overview', 'what projects do I have', 'project summary'

allowed-tools

mcp__claude-view__projects_list_projects, mcp__claude-view__projects_list_project_sessions, mcp__claude-view__projects_list_project_branches, mcp__claude-view__contributions_get_contributions

## Project Overview — [project name]

**Path:** [project path]
**Sessions:** N total | **Branches:** M active

### Recent Sessions
- [date] — [branch] — [summary] (Xm, $X.XX)
- [date] — [branch] — [summary] (Xm, $X.XX)

### Active Branches
- `[branch]` — N sessions, last active [date]
- `[branch]` — N sessions, last active [date]

### Contributions
- Commits: N | Lines changed: +X / -Y

## All Projects

| Project | Sessions | Last Active | Branches |
|---------|----------|-------------|----------|
| [name]  | N        | [date]      | M        |

© tombelieber, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in packages/plugin/skills/project-overview of tombelieber/claude-view.

• SKILL.md
• SKILL.md.tmpl

Open the folder on GitHubat commit ff3cdd1