Show HN: A live Git diff view cli to stay on top of what agents are doing

Stay on top of what your coding agents are doing with a live diff feed, right in your terminal.

livediff watches the current Git repository and shows every edit as it happens,

whether it comes from an agent, an editor, or another tool. Changes appear like a

regular Git diff: added lines are green, removed lines are red, and unchanged

lines provide context. Each edit is shown once, keeping the feed focused on what

your agents are changing now.

Run this in your terminal:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stagas/livediff/main/install.sh | shThe installer supports Linux and macOS on x64 or ARM64, and Windows x64 through Git Bash. It downloads a standalone executable; only Git needs to be installed.

Open a terminal in any Git repository and run:

livediffNow edit and save a file. You will see output similar to:

diff --git a/example.ts b/example.ts 3:47:12 PM

--- a/example.ts

+++ b/example.ts

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@

-const greeting = "Hello";

+const greeting = "Hello, world!";Only edits made after livediff starts are displayed. It watches tracked files

and new files that are not excluded by your Git ignore rules.

Press q or Ctrl-C to stop.

For a quieter view with only the filename, time, and changed lines, run:

livediff --compactThe short form works too:

livediff -cCompact output looks like this:

example.ts 3:47:12 PM

-const greeting = "Hello";

+const greeting = "Hello, world!";Disable colors when redirecting output or using a terminal without color support:

NO_COLOR=1 livediffThe installer uses /usr/local/bin when it is writable and ~/.local/bin

otherwise. To choose a different directory:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stagas/livediff/main/install.sh | INSTALL_DIR="$HOME/bin" shRelease checksums are available as SHA256SUMS on the GitHub Releases page.

The project uses Go. To test or compile it from source:

go test ./...