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Claude Code Can Finally See Your Screen (Full Setup)
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September 25thThe argument in one line.
Claude Code's new mods let anyone describe a missing feature in plain English and have Claude build it directly into the tool, and five early community mods already fix real cost, safety, and visibility problems in a normal session.
Read if. Skip if.
READ IF YOU ARE…
- You use Claude Code regularly and want to stop losing track of prompt cache timing, task progress, or what to do after each response.
- You've ever had an agent run a command against the wrong folder and want a safety net before it happens again.
- You're curious about building your own Claude Code customizations but don't know where to start.
SKIP IF…
- You don't use Claude Code or a similar agentic coding tool at all.
- You're looking for a deep technical explainer on how mods are implemented under the hood; this is a hands-on tour, not a spec.
The full version, fast.
Claude Code just shipped 'mods', small plugins that run inside the tool and can watch, change, or stop what Claude is about to do. The video walks through five standouts: Next Steps (suggests what to do after each response), Cache Control (shows when the roughly 60-minute prompt cache goes cold so you don't eat a full-price reset), Plan Progress (a checklist and percentage bar plus a finish-chime instead of scrolling tool-call noise), Blast Radius (previews and blocks destructive commands before they run), and Image Viewer (renders pasted images inline in the terminal). It also demonstrates building a custom mod in about two minutes by having Claude audit your last 20 sessions and propose fixes for your actual workflow.
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00:00 – 00:42
01 · Claude Code mods are finally here
Mods are framed as the biggest Claude Code update since skills: user-defined functionality built directly into the tool, not bolted on around it.
00:42 – 01:32
02 · What a Claude Code mod actually is
A mod is a small plugin that runs inside Claude Code itself; it can watch, change, or stop what Claude is about to do and draw its own UI onto the screen. Installed via /plugin or the plugin menu, it works in both the desktop app and the terminal.
01:32 – 02:22
03 · Mod 1: Never wonder what to do next
After every Claude turn, the Next Steps mod from an Anthropic engineer pops up three contextual suggestions for what to do next; clicking one pastes the prompt, ready to send.
02:22 – 04:33
04 · Mod 2: Stop wasting money on cold caches
Cache Control shows a live countdown to when Claude Code's roughly 60-minute prompt cache goes cold and billing resets to full price; Sharbel then asks Claude to add a one-click clear-cache-and-handoff button directly into the mod.
04:33 – 06:20
05 · Mod 3: See exactly what Claude is doing
Plan Progress replaces the wall of scrolling tool calls with a clean checklist and percentage progress bar, plus an audible chime when a task finishes so you don't have to babysit the terminal.
06:20 – 08:39
06 · Build your own Claude Code mod
Claude Code ships with a built-in skill for writing mods. Sharbel pastes an audit prompt that reads the last 20 sessions, surfaces recurring questions and commands, and proposes five custom mods, then builds and installs "Prompt Deck" from the list.
08:39 – 09:31
07 · Mod 4: Stop destructive commands
Blast Radius, built by Anthropic, intercepts destructive commands like delete or force-push before they run, shows exactly what would be affected, and waits for explicit approval.
09:31 – 10:15
08 · Mod 5: View images inside the terminal
Image Viewer renders images and screenshots pasted into the prompt directly inside the terminal, instead of requiring a trip to the file system to view them.
10:15 – 10:46
09 · Honorable mention: play Doom while Claude works
The same creator behind Image Viewer built a joke mod that drops you into a multiplayer Doom server with other people waiting on their own Claude sessions.
10:46 – 11:32
10 · Why mods change Claude Code
Mods turn Claude Code from a fixed tool into something reshaped by the user; Sharbel closes by pointing to the install commands and his custom audit prompt, linked in the description.
Lines worth screenshotting.
- Claude Code's new 'mods' are small plugins that run inside the tool itself, able to watch, change, or stop what Claude is about to do and draw their own UI onto the screen.
- Prompt caching keeps a Claude Code conversation cheap only while the cache stays warm, and that window is about 60 minutes before costs reset to full price.
- A destructive-command safety net that previews exactly what a delete or force-push would wipe out, before it runs, turns a potential disaster into a confirmation click.
- Letting Claude Code audit your last 20 sessions for repeated questions and commands produces a custom mod proposal list you did not have to design yourself.
- A visible checklist with a percentage bar replaces the need to read scrolling tool-call output just to know whether a long task is almost done.
- An audible chime when a task finishes lets you step away to a meeting or Slack without repeatedly tabbing back to check progress.
- A terminal that can render pasted images directly removes the extra step of opening a file browser just to see a screenshot Claude generated.
- The build-your-own-mod workflow goes from an audit prompt to an installed, working mod in about two minutes, because Claude Code ships with a built-in skill that teaches it how to write mods.
Mods close the three biggest Claude Code frustrations
Claude Code Mods
Five early community mods trade blind trust in Claude Code for visible cost timers, progress bars, and destructive-command previews, and building a custom one takes about two minutes.
02What a Claude Code mod actually is
- A mod runs inside the tool itself rather than wrapping around it, which is why it can intercept, change, or stop an action before Claude carries it out.
- The same mod works whether you're in the desktop app or a terminal window, installed the same way as any other plugin via /plugin or the plugin menu.
03Mod 1: Never wonder what to do next
- A suggestion panel that reads what you're actually doing and proposes three next actions removes the blank-cursor moment after Claude finishes a turn.
- Picking a suggestion pastes a ready-to-send prompt, turning 'what should I ask next' into a single click instead of a fresh thought every time.
04Mod 2: Stop wasting money on cold caches
- Claude Code's prompt cache keeps repeat requests cheap for roughly 60 minutes of activity; stepping away past that window resets the whole conversation to full price.
- A visible countdown timer turns an invisible billing cliff into something you can plan around, firing off one more message before the cache goes cold.
05Mod 3: See exactly what Claude is doing
- A checklist with a percentage bar replaces a wall of scrolling tool-call text, so you can tell whether a multi-minute task is at 10% or 90% at a glance.
- An audible chime on task completion means you don't have to keep tabbing back to a terminal window just to check if something finished.
06Build your own Claude Code mod
- Claude Code ships with a built-in skill that teaches it how to write mods, so describing a feature in plain English, like a one-click cache-clear button, is enough to get it built.
- Asking Claude to audit your last 20 sessions for repeated questions, commands, and verification habits produces a custom mod proposal list, built and installed in about two minutes.
07Mod 4: Stop destructive commands
- A safety mod that intercepts destructive commands before they execute and shows exactly what would be deleted turns an irreversible mistake into a cancel button.
- The value of a safeguard like this isn't obvious until the one time a command targets the wrong folder, which is exactly why it's worth installing before that day.
08Mod 5: View images inside the terminal
- Rendering a pasted image directly inside the terminal removes the extra step of opening a file browser just to confirm what Claude generated or screenshotted.
- It's a small convenience mostly scoped to terminal use, but for anyone who touches images regularly in their workflow, the saved context-switches add up.
Terms worth knowing.
- Mod
- A small plugin that runs inside Claude Code itself, able to add panels, buttons, commands, or safety checks, rather than wrapping around the tool like a skill or connector.
- Prompt cache
- A temporary store of a conversation's tokens that lets Claude Code bill repeat requests at a fraction of full price, as long as the cache stays warm, roughly 60 minutes of inactivity before it expires.
- Plugin marketplace
- A directory inside Claude Code where community-built mods and plugins can be browsed and installed with a single command.
Things they pointed at.
01:32toolNext Steps (Claude Code mod)
02:22toolCache Control (Claude Code mod)
04:33toolPlan Progress (Claude Code mod)
08:39toolBlast Radius (Claude Code mod)
09:31toolImage Viewer (Claude Code mod)
10:15toolMultiplayer Doom mod
Lines you could clip.
00:57
“A mod is a tiny plugin that runs inside of Cloud Code, not around it like a skill or a connector, but inside of it.”
09:01
“It's essentially a seatbelt. You put it on before the crash, not after.”
10:56
“For the first time, Cloth Code isn't a tool you take as is. It's a tool you shape.”
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Cloth code just dropped mods, and it is the biggest update since skills. Here's what a mod actually is. If there's something you wish cloth code did or had, you just tell it, and it builds it into itself.
Whether it's new panels, new buttons, new commands, new screens, mods essentially make your cloth code as customizable as you want it to be. And in the last few days, people have built hundreds of mods. Most of them are junk.
A few of them I'm never turning off again. So in this video, I'll show you the five mods everyone should be installing. Some of them will save you money, and I'll show you how to build your own in about two minutes.
Let's get started. Okay, so real quick. Cloud Code announced mods last week.
Here's the announcement itself. A mod is a tiny plugin that runs inside of Cloud Code, not around it like a skill or a connector, but inside of it. Here's an example of one of the mods I've installed running literally on my Cloud Code screen.
So it can watch what Cloud's about to do, change it or stop it cold. And it can draw its own stuff right onto your screen. You install them the same way you install any plugin.
You can type in slash plugin or open the plugin menu and you can turn them on or off accordingly. And they work inside of two places. The Cloud Code.
app, the desktop app, or inside of a Cloud Code terminal window. So let me show you the first one I'd install before anything else. This one's called Next Steps, and it's from one of Anthropic's own engineers, and I absolutely love it.
And again, to install it, literally all you need to do is copy this and paste it into your Cloud Code window, and this is what it does. Every time Cloud finishes a turn, I'm going to run a prompt. just to show you.
A little panel pops up at the bottom with three suggestions for what to do next. You don't even have to type anything. It understands what you're doing.
And based on that, it suggests what you can or should do next. You just click whichever one you want. So here it's suggesting me one of these actions that I could do next based on the prompt I've given it.
I can select, let's say, this one. And boom, it's pasted its prompt. And all I can do is just press enter and it goes.
This one's called cache control. Let me show you what it does. So here's the thing most people don't realize about cloud code.
Your whole conversation is cached. Every time you send a message, you're not paying full price to resend the entire chat as long as that cache is warm. But it only stays warm for about 60 minutes.
So if you step away from your clawed session and come back 60 minutes later, then you pay full price for that entire conversation again. This mod right here, Ash Control, puts a timer right on your screen. Right now, I've got about 55 minutes before it goes cold.
So I know I can fire off a message now or just let it go. And I want to show you how customizable these are. So if I want to, for example, edit a mod like this one, I can just ask it in plain English.
So let's do I want to add a clear cache button to my cache control mod so that when I click it, it clears cache and starts fresh and it sends the chat a handoff brief. And it also shows us how much of our cash is still free, as well as how it's being used. I'm going to let this run and come back in just a minute.
Alright, so it's done just that. So I'm going to put in reload plugins, reloaded plugins. And now If I type something in, there you go.
We now have a reset button built right into our cloud code too. So if I'm about to run out and my context is getting heavy, or if I'm about to pass my one hour context timer, I can press just one button and it clears the conversation for me and starts one with all the relevant information from a clean state. So here you go.
I can press it. Let's test it out. Handing off and boom, handoff arrived.
cleared the session, it pasted everything it needed to know from the context before, and we're back on a clean slate. On a big session, that cash going cold can cost you a few dollars every single time. This just saved you a few dollars.
But money is one thing. The next one is about your sanity while Claude's actually working. Number three is called plan progress.
And you install this one straight from a marketplace. You know how when Claude's working, your screen just fills with code and tools calling, flying by, and you genuinely can't tell how far along it is? This kills all of it.
Because instead, you get a clean checklist and a clean progress bar with a percentage. And it shows you where in the process it is. Is it auditing, researching, planning?
There you go, look at that. It's progressing and we can see... the steps ahead as well, rank the opportunities.
We can see it complete them one by one and how much of that task is left. I mean, this is a small thing, but when you're running something that takes a few minutes, being able to glance and know it's at like 70 done instead of frozen that is the difference between trusting it and having to babysit it essentially and this mod also does something that i absolutely love when clod is done with a task it makes a little pop -up noise like and if you use cloth code a lot you know how often you'd be typing something into it going to something else going to a chat window There you go.
I don't know if you heard it or if it was recording, but imagine that. Imagine you're working, you're going to a meeting or you're typing on Slack to your team and you have to keep scrolling back and forth and back and forth between your cloud code window and the other thing that you're doing. And you never really know when a task is done.
This just fixes that just by making that small, helpful sound. Now, every mod I've shown you so far, somebody else built. But the real power here is building your own.
And it's easier than you think. So let me show you. Here's the part that makes mods different from everything before them.
You don't need to find the perfect one for you. You just describe what you want and Claude builds it into itself. Cloud Code already ships with a built -in skill that teaches it how to write mods.
So you literally just talk to it. And here's the best way to get started. You don't have to guess what to build.
You can let Cloud look at how you work and tell you. So you can paste in this exact... Prompt right here.
Audit how I actually use clot code. Read my last 20 sessions and find three things, the questions I keep asking you for, the commands and how I check your work. Then suggest five mods that would fix those or enhance my workflow.
Show me the ideas first. Do not build anything until I pick one. There we go.
And a minute later, we got... this along with the questions we keep asking the commands we keep giving how we check our work and the five ideas now look at all of these mods coming in together the progress bar lets us know you know as soon as the prompt is done.
And then the next steps mod gives us the suggestions we can literally just press, let me go through them. This one is very helpful, the prompt deck, the prompts that I keep using the most, I'm actually going to go for that go for number I love it.
And with that, it's going to build me that mod just for me, a custom mod for myself. And once it's done, make sure to tell it to save it and install it. That way it's live and available on every single session and every single time that you open Claude.
Just made the sound. So I knew to come back and check in. And there we go.
Just like that. Absolutely install Promptech permanently. there we go just like that it gave me v1 of this what i would do to even enhance it more is make it pop up somewhere like here in a better ui because right now what it did and i like v1 because it gives me the templates that i would otherwise have to go into my notes copy paste so on and so forth okay back to the list because this next one is one of the most important mods in this whole video Number four is called Blast Radius, and this one's from Anthropic as well.
Here's the problem it fixes. Clod code can run real commands on your machine, which is amazing, right up until it decides to run something on the wrong folder and delete something you actually needed. Blast Radius steps in before any destructive command runs, so the second Clod's about to delete something or force push, It stops and it shows you exactly what's about to disappear, like we can see in this photo.
And then it waits and asks you to proceed or cancel. But this is one that nobody thinks they need until the day they really, really need it. It's essentially a seatbelt.
You put it on before the crash, not after. And the last one on this list is pure quality of life. So let me show you.
Number five is called image viewer. So normally, if cloud generates or pulls in an image or a screenshot, you can't actually see it in the terminal, you've got to go dig to the file and open it for yourself. This mod just lets you actually see the images just like that.
I've went ahead and installed it. And if I take a screenshot, for example, here, Paste it in.
There we go. We can see it the moment that I put it in. Look, I know this is a small mod and it's mostly for the terminal window, not the desktop app.
But if you touch images at all in your work, not having to leave the window adds up faster than you'd think. And before I wrap, there's one more I have to show you just because it's ridiculously funny. Okay, honorable mention.
This one is completely useless and I love it for that reason. The same creator who made the previous mod actually built a mod so that every time you're sitting there waiting for Claude to finish a task, it drops you into a multiplayer game of Doom. Let me go ahead and mute it with other people who are also just waiting for Claude to finish their task.
I mean, that's the whole point, right? It's your Claude code now. You can make it do whatever you want.
Just have fun. For the first time, Cloth Code isn't a tool you take as is. It's a tool you shape.
I've been waiting for this for months now, and it's finally here. So tell me in the comments, which one are you installing first? Oh, and all of these five mods that I've shown you, their install commands and that exact audit prompt, I've included all of these for free in the first link inside the description.
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The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
Claude Code's new "mods" let you describe something you wish the tool did, and it builds that feature into itself. Out of the hundreds already built, this breakdown covers the five worth installing today, plus the two-minute prompt that builds you a custom one from how you actually work.
Named ideas worth stealing.
06:43concept
The session-audit prompt for building a custom mod
- Audit how I actually use Claude Code.
- Read my last 20 sessions and find three things: the questions I keep asking, the commands I keep giving, and how I check your work.
- Suggest five mods that would fix those or enhance my workflow.
- Show me the ideas first. Do not build anything until I pick one.
A single prompt that has Claude read its own session history, identify repeated friction points, and propose five tailored mod ideas before building anything.
Steal forany Claude Code user who wants a custom mod built from real usage instead of guessing what to build
How they asked for the click.
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PRIMARY CTAWhere the creator wants you to go next.
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