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title: "Blog | Claudoscope"
description: "Articles about Claude Code session management, cost tracking, secret detection, and developer tooling from the Claudoscope team."
canonical: https://claudoscope.com/blog/
last_updated: 2026-07-27
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# Claude Code, AI dev tooling, and building in the open

By Liran Baba, AI Solutions Architect. Writing about what I learn building tools for AI-assisted development.

## Posts

### [Claudoscope 1.0: from a menu bar readout to a lens on Claude Code](https://claudoscope.com/blog/claudoscope-1-0-from-a-menu-bar-readout-to-a-lens.md)

*Release, Observability · July 27, 2026 · 11 min read*

Claude Code notifications, cost alerts, an embedded MCP server for querying your own usage, per-session file diffs, and a session index that loads in under a second.

### [I found my database password in a Claude Code session file](https://claudoscope.com/blog/found-database-password-in-claude-code-session.md)

*Security, Observability · March 31, 2026 · 7 min read*

How a leaked credential in a Claude Code session file led to building Claudoscope, a macOS menu bar app for session analytics, cost tracking, and secret detection.

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Claudoscope is an independent open-source project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic. [Source on GitHub](https://github.com/cordwainersmith/Claudoscope).

## Sitemap

- [All pages](https://claudoscope.com/sitemap.md)
- [llms.txt](https://claudoscope.com/llms.txt): curated index of every page, in llms.txt format
- [AGENTS.md](https://claudoscope.com/AGENTS.md): the app and its nine MCP tools