hide-diffs

Tired of long diffs filling your Claude Code screen? This mod swaps them for a short summary:

Press ctrl+q any time to show the full diffs again.

It also folds each shell command to one line, ● Bash(npm test -- --run src/api) ⎿ 24 lines. Press alt+q to show commands in full.

Without hide-diffs

With hide-diffs

With compact mode (turn it on in settings)

Without folded commands

With folded commands (alt+q switches them)

What it does

• Hides long diffs from edits, new files, notebooks and shell commands, and shows the file, line and lines changed instead.
• Easy to spot. Every hidden diff starts with 🔶, so you can see at a glance where Claude changed something.
• Keeps short diffs. Changes of 5 lines or fewer still show in full.
• Never hides what you need. If Claude asks you to review an edit, you still see the whole diff.
• Keeps count. A small line above the prompt shows what's changed this session: Diffs hidden (ctrl+q to show) · Commands folded (alt+q to show) · 14 files (+320 −85) this session
• Folds shell commands. A finished Bash or PowerShell call takes one line: the command, cut to fit, then how many lines it printed (or its error in red, or what it changed in files). Press alt+q to show commands in full.
• Compact mode. Turn it on in settings to put the line counts right on the edit's own line, ● Update(src/api/index.ts) 🔶 (+12 −3), so each change takes one line.
• Remembers your choice. If you turn diffs back on, they stay on next time.

Install

Works on Windows, macOS and Linux.

1. Add the mod. In Claude Code, type these two commands:

/plugin marketplace add gixxy22/hide-diffs
/plugin install hide-diffs@gixxy22-plugins

2. Turn on the ctrl+q and alt+q shortcuts. Open your keybindings file:

• Windows: C:\Users\<you>\.claude\keybindings.json
• macOS / Linux: ~/.claude/keybindings.json

If the file doesn't exist, create it with this:

{
  "bindings": [
    { "context": "Global", "bindings": { "ctrl+q": "settings:sortByTokens", "alt+q": "settings:periodWeek" } }
  ]
}

If it already exists, just add the "ctrl+q": "settings:sortByTokens" and "alt+q": "settings:periodWeek" lines inside your Global bindings.

Why settings:sortByTokens and settings:periodWeek? A mod can only borrow a shortcut action that Claude Code isn't using at that moment. Those two are only used inside the /usage screen, so ctrl+q and alt+q always reach hide-diffs.

Prefer a different key? Use any key you like in place of ctrl+q.

3. Restart Claude Code. That's it.

Settings

Type /config and look for hide-diffs.

Setting	Default	What it does
Show small diffs	5	Diffs with this many changed lines or fewer still show in full. Set it to 0 to hide every diff.
Icon	🔶	Shown at the start of each hidden diff. Use any emoji or symbol, or leave it empty for none.
Compact mode	off	Puts the line counts on an edit's own line, like ● Write(src/a.ts) 🔶 (+12 −0), and drops the summary line under it. Shell commands and notebooks keep their summary line.

Update

Run these in a terminal, then restart Claude Code:

claude plugin marketplace update gixxy22-plugins
claude plugin update hide-diffs@gixxy22-plugins

Uninstall

Run this in a terminal, then restart Claude Code:

claude plugin uninstall hide-diffs@gixxy22-plugins

License

MIT