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New Plugin Displays Specific AI Model and Effort in BB Sidebar

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A new plugin called Model & Effort Badges has been developed to enhance the BB sidebar by displaying provider icons for AI threads. This plugin replaces generic logos with small badges indicating the specific model and effort level used, such as 'Ah' for GPT-6-ASTRA on high or 'Ouc' for Opus 5.5 on ultracode. It also supports colored icons to differentiate between Codex and Claude, with a question mark appearing if the model is unknown. AI

IMPACT Enhances user experience by providing specific AI model details within a sidebar interface.

RANK_REASON The item describes a plugin that adds functionality to an existing interface, which falls under the 'tool' category.

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New Plugin Displays Specific AI Model and Effort in BB Sidebar

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Sergey Baus ·

    In the BB sidebar, each thread has a provider icon.

    <p>In the BB sidebar, each thread has a provider icon. You can see whether it's Codex or Claude, but not which model or effort it's using.</p> <p>I asked agents to make a plugin that replaces the icons so you can see both. And to make it compatible with the colored provider icons…

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