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Best Claude Code mods in 2026

The 25 most popular Claude Code mods, ranked by real usage and checked for what they can access.

Updated 2026-10-18

The 25 most popular Claude Code mods on 2026-10-18, one per repository, ranked by GitHub stars. Each one links to its full security report and install command.

  1. ruview-live

    RuView live sensing in Claude Code: /ruview opens a pane beside the transcript with three views: an overview of your CSI nodes (ESP32, Realtek) and 60 GHz radar (rates, loss, RSSI,… Stars: 98.5k · Security: Low risk.

  2. ruflo-adr

    ADR lifecycle management — create, index, reconcile, supersede, check compliance, and link Architecture Decision Records to code via AgentDB hierarchical store + causal edges… Stars: 76.1k · Security: Low risk.

  3. code-modernization

    Guided modernization for any legacy codebase: start with /modernize, get an assessment, an interactive map, the business rules mined from the code, and a plan you approve, then an upgrade,… Stars: 41.9k · Security: Review before installing.

  4. fm

    Firstmate Calm for Claude Code: the sailboat working animation and conversation-only transcript presentation, sharing the per-home config/calm preference with the Pi Calm extension. Its… Stars: 8k · Security: Review before installing.

  5. fast-jev-compaction

    Verbatim Jev-guided compaction for Claude Code sessions. Stars: 7.7k · Security: Review before installing.

  6. terminal-browser

    A browser running directly inside claude code. Preview websites, view HTML documents, and let your agent control the built in browser. Stars: 3.9k · Security: Review before installing.

  7. token-optimizer

    The Token Optimizer status bar on its own, for its tests. It ships inside the token-optimizer plugin. Stars: 2.6k · Security: High risk.

  8. caliber-jev-compaction

    Verbatim Jev-guided compaction for Claude Code sessions. Stars: 1.3k · Security: Review before installing.

  9. claude-council

    Consult multiple AI coding agents (Gemini, OpenAI, Grok, Perplexity, Kimi, any model OpenRouter routes to, plus codex, antigravity, grok, kimi and cursor CLIs when installed, and a local… Stars: 885 · Security: High risk.

  10. storybloq

    Project memory for Claude Code and Codex. Storybloq stores tickets, issues, handovers, and lessons in a .story/ folder inside your repo. Stars: 773 · Security: Low risk.

  11. operator

    Durable project and user memory for agent-driven development in Claude Code. Stars: 465 · Security: Review before installing.

  12. jev-auto-compact

    Jev-powered verbatim compaction: once context reaches 60%, prunes stale tool calls with zero generation. Skips (never falls back to the LLM summarizer) when nothing is prunable; records… Stars: 442 · Security: Review before installing.

  13. shunt

    A Claude Mod for the shunt gateway: a band above the prompt shows how much of each window is used and the time to reset — the shared account pool's, read from shunt's GET /usage, or the… Stars: 302 · Security: Review before installing.

  14. lesson-cards

    Displays lesson hint cards when tool calls match known patterns. Additive surface during pilot; the classic --strict guard keeps its 12 block-severity denies. Stars: 296 · Security: Low risk.

  15. agent-radar

    One live line above the prompt per running subagent: time, tool count and what it's doing. /radar shows every agent and its messages. Stars: 268 · Security: Low risk.

  16. image-view

    See the images you paste into Claude Code: thumbnails above the prompt instead of bare [Image #1] tags Stars: 238 · Security: Review before installing.

  17. show-your-work

    Claude shows its finished work right in your terminal: screenshots, videos of it clicking through your app, and synced before/after QA Stars: 232 · Security: High risk.

  18. effortless

    Sets the reasoning effort for every prompt automatically, shows it under the prompt box, and counts down how long the prompt cache stays warm. Stars: 232 · Security: High risk.

  19. filetree

    An IDE-style file tree for Claude Code that shows what Claude is doing and where in files Stars: 222 · Security: Review before installing.

  20. compact-adviser

    Suggests (or, opt-in, runs) /compact at a completed checkpoint, judged by TypeSafe Jev. Its hooks module activates only when CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_FUNCTION_HOOKS is exactly 1 and is otherwise… Stars: 218 · Security: High risk.

  21. savvy-progress

    Progress bar above the prompt for /savvy-flow, plus an agents panel (/agents-info): running, finished and planned subagents with model, task progress, context, cost and time. Stars: 216 · Security: Low risk.

  22. cache-tax

    A Claude Code mod that keeps the one-hour prompt cache warm during breaks and stops a cold send once with its estimated rewrite cost. Warming uses model requests and costs tokens. Requires… Stars: 204 · Security: Review before installing.

  23. shared-session

    Share a Claude Code session with a link, or with your team. Teammates join from their own Claude Code and talk to it: one session does the work, everyone sees every turn live, and the host… Stars: 202 · Security: High risk.

  24. agentctl

    Agent Control Plane for one Claude Code session: task scope, evidence, hand-over. A control and a display, not an isolation boundary. Stars: 194 · Security: Review before installing.

  25. multi-core

    Claude Code plugin: use ChatGPT (Codex), Cursor, OpenCode Zen, and Antigravity models inside one Claude Code session. Switch with /model, delegate to named native workers, keep each… Stars: 193 · Security: Low risk.