George M. Howard

George M. Howard is an independent software publisher distributing open-source tooling through GitHub, with a catalog currently centered on developer utilities for the emerging ecosystem of AI-assisted programming. The publisher's flagship and sole listed package, roost, is a terminal-based monitoring tool described as "top for Claude Code," bringing the familiar process-inspection paradigm of classic Unix utilities to the world of AI coding agents. Just as the traditional top command gives system administrators a live view of running processes, resource consumption, and system state, roost gives developers real-time visibility into their Claude Code sessions, displaying active sessions, the models in use, context window utilization, and the subagents those sessions spawn as they work. This addresses a practical need that has grown alongside agentic coding workflows: as developers run multiple AI sessions in parallel and delegate tasks to nested subagents, understanding what is running, how much context remains, and how work is distributed across agents becomes essential for cost control, debugging, and session management. Roost fits squarely within the observability and developer tooling category, complementing terminals, editors, and CI environments rather than replacing them. Typical use cases include tracking long-running agent tasks without interrupting them, diagnosing why a session stalled or exhausted its context, comparing behavior across different model configurations, and monitoring the tree of subagents spawned during complex multi-step operations. Published under the GitHub account gmhoward9289-ops, the project exemplifies the pattern of single-maintainer open-source utilities built to scratch a specific itch in a fast-moving tooling landscape, distributed as source code for developers to inspect, build, and adapt to their own workflows.