Getting started with Claude Code mods news update
. Getting started with Claude Code mods news update Why it matters for engineering teams What shipped and who is affected.
By Dillip Chowdary • Oct 02, 2026 • Source: HN Claude/Codex/Fable
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Mods can rewrite or replace what Claude Code does, and can even draw custom UI. Each one is a small JavaScript or TypeScript module that runs inside your session and sees every event as it happens.
You can add a readout you check all the time, put a guard in front of the commands that make you nervous, or build a review view for how you like to read changes. This guide builds one mod from an empty folder, Token Weather, a live forecast of the context window drawn above the prompt.
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Then it tours two larger mods, Blast Radius and Replay Theater, to show what else the API can do. See the full write-up from HN Claude/Codex/Fable via the source link for quotes and complete context.
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TerminalDesktopFIG AToken Weather, Blast Radius and Replay Theater, one after another, in a terminal session Play videoFIG BPauseToken Weather's band as the context window fills: Clear at 18%, Showers at 67%, Storm at 81% Claude Code 2.1.287 or later. Each time Claude Code loads a mod, it writes the type declarations for your build into the mod's .claude-plugin/types/ folder, and those are the authority for your version.
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HOW A MOD WORKS A mod is a Claude Code plugin whose behavior lives in a JavaScript or TypeScript module: The folder is a normal plugin, with a .claude-plugin/plugin.json manifest. Every hook has the same shape: CODEJavaScriptCopyon("tool.call", { tool: "Bash" }, async ($, e, next) => { // $ the mods API: ui, session, state, store, fs, process, clock, http, tool, command, model, ...
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// e this event's input, as plain data // next passes e to the other plugins and then to Claude Code's own behavior return next(e); }); Hooks form a chain, like middleware. See the full write-up from HN Claude/Codex/Fable via the source link for quotes and complete context.
Developer Action Items
- ☐ Verify the claim on the official Claude / Codex page (or HN Claude/Codex/Fable), not from this recap alone.
- ☐ Name the surface that moved — API, policy, model, hardware, or commercial terms — before you Slack the thread.
- ☐ Assign one owner a day to read the primary material and decide: this-sprint, this-quarter, or noise.
- ☐ Do not change production on day-one coverage. Watch the vendor changelog and one independent write-up first.
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