Pulse Today is a small add-on for Claude Code. It notices when you have worked without logging it and helps you log it in one press. It also shows your day at a glance and can remind you to take breaks.

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A Pulse Pro feature, in beta. Included in the 14-day trial. On the Free plan it stays quiet, and the /pulse-capture skill keeps working.

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What you get

• Suggestions for unlogged time. When you have worked for at least 10 minutes and then paused, a bar appears above the prompt showing what you worked on, with Capture and Skip buttons. Nothing is ever logged without your yes.
• One-press Capture. Capture hands that stretch of time to your Skill - /pulse-capture skill. It builds proper entries from your commits and pull requests and asks you to approve them.
• A Today view. Run /pulse-today for a timeline of your day, your totals against your daily target, and a chart of your week.
• Break reminders. Optional Pomodoro-style reminders (25/5, 50/10 or 90/15), plus a lunch and an end-of-day nudge. These run on your computer and send nothing to Pulse.
• Memory ideas. After a commit or a deploy it may suggest a decision worth remembering. It is saved only as a suggestion that you confirm in Pulse.

Before you start

• A Pulse Pro or trial workspace.
• Pulse connected to Claude Code. See Connect Pulse to your AI tools (MCP).
• The /pulse-capture skill installed (see Skill - /pulse-capture). Capture needs it; the rest works without it.
• Claude Code, in the terminal or the desktop app.

Get started

pulse-today-0.8.8.zip

1. Unzip it. Double-click the downloaded zip in Finder. You get a pulse-today folder.

2. Move it somewhere permanent. In Finder choose Go → Go to Folder… (Shift+Cmd+G), type ~/.claude and press Return. Create a folder named mods there and drag pulse-today into it, so you end up with ~/.claude/mods/pulse-today.

3. Tell Claude Code where it is. Add this entry to ~/.claude/settings.json, inside the file's outer { } and next to your other settings, with a comma between entries. Then restart Claude Code.

   "env": {
     "CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_DIRS": "~/.claude/mods/pulse-today"
   },
   

   If the file already has an env entry, add only the CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_DIRS line inside it. Just trying it out? Start Claude Code with claude --plugin-dir ~/.claude/mods/pulse-today instead.

4. Run /pulse-today. The Today view opens. Run /pulse-today status any time to see the version and whether Pulse is connected.