ghud 0.2.3

GitHub Heads-Up Display — terminal dashboard for your portfolio repos

ghud

GitHub Heads-Up Display — a terminal dashboard for your portfolio repos.

ghud gives you quick, formatted access to your GitHub activity without verbose gh field specifications or opening a browser.

• Global dashboard — notifications, open PRs, merged PRs, issues, other activity
• Issue views — ghud i 42 for a rich issue display, ghud i for a list
• PR views — ghud pr 15 with check status, reviews, and comments
• Repo dashboard — ghud r for issues + PRs in the current repo
• Repo discovery — find repos missing from your portfolio config

Example

$ ghud
╭───────────────────────── New Issues From Others (3) ─────────────────────────╮
│  plinking_duck       Faster BCF/VCF reader for 'Free'              23d ago  │
│  duckdb_markdown     Would it be possible to add option to         50d ago  │
│                      write markdown with frontmatter data?                  │
│  duckdb_scalarfs     Curious about the extension usage             80d ago  │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭───────────────────────────── Your Open PRs (5) ──────────────────────────────╮
│  community-ext       Update sitting_duck to v1.4.0                      0d  │
│  fledgling           Extract conversation tools into MCP server    13d  1c  │
│  fledgling           Fix ReadLines returning empty table           18d  1c  │
│  community-ext       Update plinking_duck to v0.1.2                    21d  │
│  duckdb_tarfs        Port to DuckDB v1.4-andium                   40d  3c  │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Installation

pip install ghud

Requires the GitHub CLI (gh) to be installed and authenticated.

Quick Start

# Global dashboard
ghud

# View issue #42 in the current repo
ghud i 42

# View PR #15 with full detail
ghud pr 15 --detail full

# List open issues across all portfolio repos
ghud i --repo all

# Repo dashboard for the current directory
ghud r

# Find repos not yet in your portfolio config
ghud discover --dry-run

Commands

Command	Alias	Description
ghud / ghud overview	ghud o	Global dashboard
ghud issue [N]	ghud i	List issues or view detail
ghud pr [N]		List PRs or view detail
ghud repo	ghud r	Repo-level dashboard
ghud discover		Find untracked repos
ghud serve		Start MCP server

Key Options

• --repo owner/repo — target a specific repo (--repo all for cross-repo)
• --detail brief|summary|standard|full — control detail level on issue/PR views
• --comments N — show last N comments (default: 3, or --comments all)
• --no-pager — disable pager
• --state open|closed|all — filter list views
• --limit N — max items in list views (default: 30)

Configuration

ghud reads a projects.yaml file that lists your portfolio repos. It checks these locations:

1. $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ghud/projects.yaml (default: ~/.config/ghud/projects.yaml)
2. ~/Projects/pages/src/_data/projects.yaml

The YAML uses a nested category/subcategory/project structure. Repos in the ignored category are excluded from the dashboard.

Features

Multi-View CLI

Browse issues, PRs, and repos with detail levels from brief (one-line summary) to full (body, all comments, timeline events, expanded CI checks).

Check Status Indicators

PR views show CI and review status at a glance: ✓ passing, ✗ failing, ● pending, — no checks.

Auto Repo Detection

When run inside a git repo, ghud detects the repo from your origin remote. Override with --repo or use --repo all for cross-repo views.

Responsive Layout

On wide terminals (>=120 columns), the dashboard uses a two-column layout. Narrow terminals get a single-column stack.

MCP Server

ghud serve starts an MCP server exposing dashboard tools for AI agents, enabling integration with tools like Claude Code.

Performance

ghud fetches all data in ~2 seconds using concurrent API calls and GraphQL batching for per-repo issue queries.

Development

git clone https://github.com/teaguesterling/ghud.git
cd ghud
pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest

License

MIT