Know the moment an AI service breaks — inside Claude Code

A background monitor that pings you when Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, or any monitored service goes down (and again when it recovers), plus an /aiwatch command that briefs the current incident. It answers "is it me, or is the service down?" without leaving your terminal.

The plugin reads no code and collects no data — it only polls AIWatch's public status feed.

What you get

🔔 Outage monitor (background)

Runs quietly and notifies Claude when a service changes state — 🔴 Claude API is down, then ✅ Claude API has recovered — naming each service. It checks AIWatch every 60 seconds by default (set AIWATCH_POLL_SECONDS to change it) and only speaks up on a real transition, so it never spams. You find out an outage is upstream before you burn time debugging your own code.

⌨️ `/aiwatch` command

On demand, briefs which services are degraded/down right now — each with its active incident, an AI summary, a fallback suggestion, and a link to the status page. Or a one-liner when all is clear.

Install

🚧 In review on the Claude Code community marketplace. Once approved, install it with:

/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
/plugin install aiwatch@claude-community

Requires Claude Code v2.1.105+ (the background monitor is an interactive-session feature). Prefer a status bar instead? See the statusline guide.

What a briefing looks like

🔴 Claude API (down) — "Elevated error rates on the Messages API" · major impact AI: Likely a capacity issue; ~30–60 min historical recovery. Try instead: OpenAI, Gemini ↳ https://ai-watch.dev/p/claude

Privacy

No page or code content is read — the plugin only sends a GET to AIWatch's public, unauthenticated status endpoint.
No identifier is collected. AIWatch measures only anonymous, aggregate poll volume.

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