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Claude Code

DevPulse monitors Claude Code (Anthropic's CLI agent) and its spawned subprocesses. It tracks the Node.js processes, tool execution overhead, and detects when long-running agentic sessions accumulate memory from file reads, tool calls, and context growth.

AI agentNode.jsContext growth
2–8 GB
Typical RAM
3–15
Processes
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Monitored

Why DevPulse monitors Claude Code

Claude Code runs as a long-lived Node.js process that spawns subprocesses for tool execution — file reads, grep, bash commands, and more. During complex agentic tasks, memory can climb to 4–8 GB as context accumulates and multiple parallel tool calls run simultaneously.

What DevPulse detects

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Process detection and groupingFree
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Total memory at a glanceFree
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Subprocess tracking (tool execution)Free
PRO
Session memory growth over timePro
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Zombie subprocess detectionPro
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Context window impact estimationPro

Quick tips to reduce Claude Code RAM

1 Restart Claude Code between large tasks to reclaim accumulated memory

2 Use /compact to reduce context size during long sessions

3 Close other heavy apps before running large codebase-wide operations

4 Monitor memory during multi-agent parallel operations — each spawned agent adds overhead

Monitor Claude Code with DevPulse

See exactly how much RAM Claude Code is consuming, grouped intelligently with all its child processes.

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Category

ai

Availability

Free + Pro features

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