WakaTime for Claude Code

Track your AI usage, lines of code generated, time spent prompting AI, etc. using the WakaTime plugin for Claude Code.

WakaTime is an open source plugin for metrics, insights, and time tracking automatically generated from your programming activity.

Installation

Using the Claude Code Plugin System (Recommended)

1. claude plugin marketplace add https://github.com/wakatime/claude-code-wakatime.git

2. claude plugin i claude-code-wakatime@wakatime

3. Add your API key to ~/.wakatime.cfg:

   [settings]
   api_key = waka_123
   

NPM Installation (Legacy)

1. npm install -g claude-code-wakatime

2. Add your API key to ~/.wakatime.cfg:

   [settings]
   api_key = waka_123
   

Usage

New: See the lines of code generated by AI on your dashboard!

Visit https://wakatime.com to see your coding activity.

Development

npm run watch

Troubleshooting

Diagnostic tool for troubleshooting the installation and health of Claude Code and plugins:

claude doctor

Make sure you have node.js installed and in your $PATH:

node -v

Run claude with verbose logging to see any plugin load errors:

claude --debug

Look for errors in the wakatime-cli log file:

grep error ~/.wakatime/wakatime.log | grep -v backoff