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Show HN: Pulse – Dashboard for Claude Code, approve tool calls from your phone

Student builds phone dashboard for Claude Code agents — approve tool calls from anywhere, track token spend in real-time.

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Why it matters

As Claude Code agents become autonomous, developer tooling for monitoring and control is emerging. Pulse addresses a real friction point: approving agent actions remotely without leaving your workflow. This is the kind of micro-tool that signals where the market is heading.

The key facts

12 to know
  1. Local application (no account required)

  2. Real-time token spend tracking and session cost visibility

  3. Remote tool-call approval from mobile

  4. Built for Claude Code agent monitoring

  5. Open-source (GitHub)

  6. Published June 20, 2026

  7. Early traction signal: Show HN post with minimal engagement (4 points, 0 comments) suggests niche but real use case

  8. Token spend tracking and session cost visibility

  9. Tool call approval from mobile devices

  10. Targets Claude Code agent users

  11. GitHub open-source (early-stage, 4 HN points, 0 comments)

  12. Developer-built (student from Flanders)

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Publisher excerpt: Hi everyone, I'm a student from Flanders and I like to use Claude Code for my purposes, ideas and also just for fun and also make solutions for problems in our world!) So that's why I built "Pulse", it's an local application that you can easily install to your device and easily follow what your…
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