What is respawn?
respawn is a Claude Code mod by pourya7 that auto-continue after a turn dies on a network or API error: a pixel-art CONTINUE? countdown with backoff and 3 lives per hour. It is listed under While you wait and has no public popularity data yet.
| Type | Claude code mod |
|---|---|
| Author | pourya7 |
| Repository | pourya7/claude-code-mods |
| Popularity | no public popularity data yet |
| Category | While you wait |
| Security | Low risk (84/100) |
| Rank | #4,312 of 5,272 Claude Code mods; #126 in While you wait |
| License | MIT |
| Last commit | 2026-10-04 |
| Hooks | 6 events |
| Sees | every prompt |
| Draws on | AbovePrompt |
Is respawn safe to install?
respawn scores 84/100 on the MCPMods security check: Low risk. Things to review: watches every prompt or event. It passed 6 of 8 checks.
Mod footprints come from claude plugin validate, which lists every event a mod hooks and every API call it makes without running it.
| Check | Result |
|---|---|
| No network access | Pass |
| Starts no processes | Pass |
| Writes no files or config | Pass |
| Doesn't read environment variables | Pass |
| Watches every prompt or event | Review |
| Drives Claude (model calls, prompts) | Note |
| Passes claude plugin validate | Pass |
| Has an open-source license | Pass |
API calls in its code
| Call | What it means |
|---|---|
$.clock.every | |
$.clock.now | |
$.command.register | |
$.prompt.submit | drives Claude |
$.state.get | |
$.state.set | |
$.ui.resolve | draws interface |
$.ui.status | draws interface |
$.ui.toast | draws interface |
How do I install respawn?
- Check your Claude Code version. Mods need Claude Code 2.1.287 or later and are on by default.
claude --version
- Read its footprint. This lists every event it hooks and every API call it makes, without running it.
git clone https://github.com/pourya7/claude-code-mods claude plugin validate ./claude-code-mods/respawn
- Install it. Run this in your terminal, then /reload-plugins in an open session.
claude plugin marketplace add pourya7/claude-code-mods && claude plugin install respawn@claude-code-mods
Or ask Claude to set it up
Paste this into Claude Code and it installs respawn for you:
Install the "respawn" Claude Code mod from https://github.com/pourya7/claude-code-mods/tree/main/respawn. Run claude plugin validate on it first and show me what it can access before you enable it.
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- co-op: A second player reviews before the PR: gh pr create waits for a second-model review of the branch diff, and a failing re (Review before installing)
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- honest-exit: Make silent shell failures loud: a glob that matched nothing, a command missing from the agent's shell, or a pipe that h (Low risk)
- mender: Fix the arguments, not the model: repairs malformed MCP tool arguments ("true" for true, numbers as strings, unknown key (Low risk)
- party: A raid frame for every live session on the machine: who is working, who is waiting on you and for how long, per-PR locks (Low risk)
- prove-it: The fix must make a test fail first: reverts your source changes, runs the changed tests and requires a failure, restore (Review before installing)