Spots fresh solves worth keeping and offers /recipe to save them to the skills-os library.

The mods I run in Claude Code, each in its own folder. Clone this repo and run one script to get the same setup on any machine.
Mods are small plugins that add live panes, status bands and slash commands to Claude Code. They hot-reload when you edit them.
git clone https://github.com/wpvip-awesomeface/claude-mods.git ~/.claude/mods
~/.claude/mods/install.sh
Then start a new Claude Code session. Add --all to also turn on the personal mods in fun/ (that's the full backup restore).
The script:
CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_DIRS in ~/.claude/settings.json)CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_DIR_WATCH=1)mods command into ~/.local/binmods # list mods and whether they're on
mods on bento # load one in every new session
mods off workbench # stop loading it
mods on all # the core mods
mods on fun # the personal mods in fun/
| Mod | What you see | Saves tokens? |
|---|---|---|
| bento | A band above the prompt showing context use, turns and subagents | Yes, directly |
| turn-timer | "Speed Radar": how long each reply took | Indirectly |
| recipe-card | A card under each answer showing the route line, with /recipe to save a solve | Yes, over time |
workbench (in fun/) | A side pane with your open PRs, next meeting, pizza and a dino | No, it's for focus and fun |
What: a lunchbox band above the prompt. The box fills as context grows and shows context %, tokens, turn count and how many subagents ("helpers") the session has started.
Why: cost is roughly turns × context size, and both are invisible by default. Bento makes them visible, and warns you once at 70% context or 60 turns that it's time to start fresh.
Commands:
/doggybag or /handoff: writes a 5–10 line handoff (goal, state, links, next step) and copies it to your clipboard. It runs as one tool-less fork over the cached transcript, so it's cheap. Paste it into a new session./hush: hides every mod at once, for screenshares and recordings./bento: shows or hides the band.What: shows how long each reply took (Speed Radar: ⏱ 2m 15s), drawn above the route line.
Why: slow replies are usually long, tool-heavy turns. Seeing the time makes it easy to spot when a session is dragging and should be split up. It stays visible during /hush, since it's safe to show in demos.
What: reads the route line at the end of each answer (◎ shape · † graveyard · ◫ library · ≡ rung · ✦ extract) and draws it as a card. When an answer was a fresh solve worth keeping, it offers /recipe to save it as a reusable tool.
Why: the cheapest task is the one you've already solved. Saving solves to a library, and dead ends to a graveyard, keeps future sessions from paying to re-solve them.
Needs: a skills library that uses the route line. Without one, the card has nothing to read.
Heads up: this is a personal mod, built around the author's own workflow (their demo sites, calendar and sense of humor). Most people won't need or want it. It's here so the author's full setup is backed up, and as an example if you want to build your own.
It lives in fun/, and the installer leaves it off unless you pass --all or run mods on workbench.
What: a side pane with:
/prep to get ready for it/fun, off by default): a quote of the day, pizza and mochi the dinoWhy: keeps PR status and your calendar in view, so you don't spend turns asking Claude to check them.
Needs: the gh CLI signed in, and a Google Calendar connector for birdy. The demo links and the company email domain are set at the top of fun/workbench/hooks/register.tsx, so change those for your own setup. Edit the quote list with /quotes.
Commands: /workbench, /greg-check, /prep, /quotes, /fun.
Not a mod, but it lives here too: token-kit/ has the CLAUDE.md rules and a read guard hook that blocks whole-file reads over 400 lines once and returns an outline. To have an agent set all of it up, point it at AGENT_SETUP.md.
<mod>/hooks/register.tsx.*/.claude-plugin/types/ is generated by Claude Code on each machine and is not committed. Your editor may show type errors until a session has loaded the mods once.hooks/register.tsx 192 lines1import { atom, read, update } from 'claude-code'
2import type { Register } from 'claude-code'
3
4import type { Card } from '../types'
5
6// Muted Dracula pink for the name, greys for everything else (matches bento).
7// TEXT for glyphs and words, DATA a step darker for values.
8const NAME = '#C291B3'
9const TEXT = '#D4D4D4'
10const DATA = '#A3A3A3'
11const SKILLOS = '#FF8FB1' // Dracula-style pink salmon for the SkillOS label on the route line
12const RADAR = '#8BE9FD' // Dracula cyan for turn-timer's Speed Radar row
13
14// turn-timer's per-reply durations (read-only here; turn-timer owns them).
15const times = atom({ plugin: 'turn-timer', key: 'times' } as const, [] as { tail: string; ms: number }[])
16const tailOf = (text: string) => text.replace(/\s+/g, ' ').trim().slice(-160)
17const took = (ms: number) => {
18 const total = Math.max(1, Math.round(ms / 1000))
19 const h = Math.floor(total / 3600)
20 const m = Math.floor((total % 3600) / 60)
21 const s = total % 60
22 return [h && `${h}h`, (h || m) && `${m}m`, `${s}s`].filter(Boolean).join(' ')
23}
24
25const card = atom({ plugin: 'recipe-card', key: 'card' } as const, null)
26const saved = atom({ plugin: 'recipe-card', key: 'saved' } as const, 0)
27const isHidden = atom({ plugin: 'recipe-card', key: 'isHidden' } as const, false)
28
29// The route line every substantive answer ends with, in glyphs:
30// ◎ <shape> · † ✓/–/⊘ · ◫ ✓/–/⊘ [tool] · ≡ n · ✦ ✓/– <reason>
31// (the older emoji form, 🧭 · 🪦 · 📚 · 🪜 · 🧰 with ✅/➖/🔒, still parses).
32const ROUTE_GLYPHS = /^◎\s*(\S+)\s*·\s*†\s*(✓|–|⊘)\s*·\s*◫\s*(✓|–|⊘)\s*([^·]*?)\s*·\s*≡\s*(\d)\s*·\s*✦\s*(✓|–)\s*(.*)$/u
33const ROUTE_EMOJI = /🧭\s*(\S+).*?📚\s*(✅|➖|🔒)[^·]*·\s*🪜\s*(\d).*?🧰\s*(✅|➖)\s*(.*)$/mu
34
35type Route = { shape: string; graveyard: string; library: string; tool: string; rung: string; extract: string; reason: string }
36
37const YES = new Set(['✓', '✅'])
38const MISS = new Set(['–', '➖'])
39
40// One line read as a glyph route line; an unmatched group reads as ''.
41const glyphRoute = (line: string): Route | null => {
42 const g = line.match(ROUTE_GLYPHS)
43 if (!g) return null
44 const [, shape = '', graveyard = '', library = '', tool = '', rung = '', extract = '', reason = ''] = g
45 return { shape, graveyard, library, tool, rung, extract, reason: reason.trim() }
46}
47
48// The last line of an answer, when it is a route line.
49const routeOf = (answer: string): Route | null => {
50 const last = answer.trimEnd().split('\n').pop()?.trim() ?? ''
51 const g = glyphRoute(last)
52 if (g) return g
53 const m = answer.match(ROUTE_EMOJI)
54 if (m) return { shape: m[1] ?? '', graveyard: '', library: m[2] ?? '', tool: '', rung: m[3] ?? '', extract: m[4] ?? '', reason: (m[5] ?? '').trim() }
55 return null
56}
57
58const spot = (answer: string, at: number): Card | null => {
59 const r = routeOf(answer)
60 if (!r) return null
61
62 if (YES.has(r.extract)) return { shape: r.shape, reason: r.reason, why: 'extract', at }
63 // No library tool and a real climb: likely a fresh solve worth a second look.
64 if (MISS.has(r.library) && Number(r.rung) >= 3) return { shape: r.shape, reason: r.reason, why: 'fresh', at }
65
66 return null
67}
68
69const recipePrompt = (c: Card) => [
70 'Run the toolsmith skill on the solve we just finished',
71 `(${c.shape}: ${c.reason}).`,
72 'Decide whether it should become a skills-os library tool. If yes, generalize it, ship the mandatory files,',
73 'log it, and commit to the skills-os library. If no, say why in one line.',
74].join(' ')
75
76export const register: Register = on => {
77 on('session.start', async ($, e, next) => {
78 await $.command.register({ name: 'recipe', description: 'Save the last fresh solve as a skills-os recipe (toolsmith)' })
79
80 return next(e)
81 })
82
83 on('command.run', { command: 'recipe' }, async $ => {
84 const c = await read($, card)
85 const text = c ? recipePrompt(c) : recipePrompt({ shape: 'solve', reason: 'the most recent fresh solve in this session', why: 'fresh', at: 0 })
86
87 await update($, card, () => null)
88 await update($, saved, n => n + 1)
89 void $.prompt.submit({ text })
90
91 return { text: 'Writing up the recipe card…' }
92 })
93
94 // /hush (owned by bento) hides the card band too.
95 on('state.set', { plugin: 'bento', key: 'hushed' }, async ($, e, next) => {
96 const result = await next(e)
97 await update($, isHidden, () => !!e.value)
98 return result
99 }).catch(($, e, next) => next(e)) // a failed hide never blocks /hush itself
100
101 on('turn.complete', async ($, e, next) => {
102 const result = await next(e)
103 if (e.agentId || !e.answer) return result
104
105 const found = spot(e.answer, await $.clock.now())
106 if (found) {
107 await update($, card, () => found)
108 }
109
110 return result
111 })
112
113 // Draws the route line at the end of a reply as its own quiet row: glyphs in TEXT,
114 // values in DATA, with a little room above. The rest of the reply draws as usual.
115 on('ui.render', { component: 'AssistantMessage' }, async ($, e, next) => {
116 const text = e.props.text
117 const lines = text.trimEnd().split('\n')
118 const last = lines[lines.length - 1]?.trim() ?? ''
119 const r = glyphRoute(last)
120 if (!r) return next(e)
121
122 const { shape, graveyard, library, tool, rung, extract, reason } = r
123 const rest = lines.slice(0, -1).join('\n').trimEnd()
124 const drawn = rest ? await next({ ...e, props: { ...e.props, text: rest } }) : null
125 const { Box, Text } = $.ui.resolve(e)
126 const dot = <Text color={DATA}> · </Text>
127 // Spell the line out in plain words: the glyphs read too small next to body text.
128 const pair = (label: string, value: string) => (
129 <Text><Text color={TEXT}>{label} </Text><Text color={DATA}>{value}</Text></Text>
130 )
131 const status = (v: string, yes: string, miss: string) => (v === '✓' ? yes : v === '⊘' ? 'locked' : miss)
132 const libraryValue = library === '✓' ? (tool || 'hit') : status(library, 'hit', 'no tool')
133 const tail = tailOf(text)
134 const timed = [...(await read($, times))].reverse().find(t => t.tail === tail)
135
136 return (
137 <Box flexDirection="column">
138 {drawn}
139 {timed && (
140 <Box marginTop={1} paddingX={1}>
141 <Text><Text bold color={RADAR}>Speed Radar: </Text><Text color={DATA}>⏱ {took(timed.ms)}</Text></Text>
142 </Box>
143 )}
144 <Box marginTop={timed ? 0 : 1} paddingX={1}>
145 <Text>
146 <Text bold color={SKILLOS}>SkillOS </Text>
147 {pair('task', shape)}{dot}
148 {pair('dead ends', status(graveyard, 'found', 'none'))}{dot}
149 {pair('library', libraryValue)}{dot}
150 {pair('rung', rung)}{dot}
151 {pair('save as tool', status(extract, 'yes', 'no'))}
152 {reason && dot}{reason && <Text color={DATA}>{reason}</Text>}
153 </Text>
154 </Box>
155 </Box>
156 )
157 })
158
159 on('ui.render', { component: 'AbovePrompt' }, async ($, e, next) => {
160 const c = await read($, card)
161
162 if (e.props.hasSurvey || !c || (await read($, isHidden))) {
163 return next(e)
164 }
165
166 const { Box, Text, Button } = $.ui.resolve(e)
167 const dot = <Text color={DATA}> · </Text>
168 const reason = c.reason.length > 44 ? `${c.reason.slice(0, 43)}…` : c.reason
169 const below = await next(e)
170
171 return (
172 <Box flexDirection="column">
173 <Box gap={1}>
174 <Text>
175 <Text bold color={NAME}>▭ recipe card </Text>
176 <Text color={TEXT}>{c.why === 'extract' ? 'worth keeping' : 'fresh solve'}</Text>
177 {dot}<Text color={DATA}>{c.shape}</Text>
178 {reason && dot}{reason && <Text color={DATA}>{reason}</Text>}
179 </Text>
180 <Button key="save" label="Save recipe" onPress={async () => {
181 await update($, card, () => null)
182 await update($, saved, n => n + 1)
183 void $.prompt.submit({ text: recipePrompt(c) })
184 }} />
185 <Button key="skip" label="Skip" onPress={() => update($, card, () => null)} />
186 </Box>
187 {below}
188 </Box>
189 )
190 })
191}
192types/index.d.ts 12 lines1export type Card = { shape: string; reason: string; why: 'extract' | 'fresh'; at: number }
2
3declare module 'claude-code' {
4 interface PluginState {
5 'recipe-card': { card: Card | null; saved: number; isHidden: boolean }
6 // Owned by turn-timer; read here to draw the time above the route line.
7 'turn-timer': { times: { tail: string; ms: number }[] }
8 // Owned by bento; watched here so /hush hides the card too.
9 'bento': { hushed: boolean }
10 }
11}
12