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Anthropic releases Mods for Claude Code
Anthropic added Mods to Claude Code, a plugin system that lets developers change the tool’s interface and behaviour, while warning that the code runs with user permissions and is not sandboxed.
- Anthropic released Mods for Claude Code.
- The company said Mods were JavaScript or TypeScript functions that hooked into events such as tool calls, user prompts and UI rendering.
- Anthropic said Mods ran with the user's permissions, were not sandboxed and should only be installed from trusted sources.
- The first official Mod plugin was called You Should Know.
- Anthropic said You Should Know started a separate agent that watched Claude's output for information users might have missed.
Anthropic released Mods for Claude Code, a plugin-based system that ran inside the tool. It let developers alter how Claude Code looked and worked.
The company said Mods were JavaScript or TypeScript functions that responded to events including tool calls, user prompts and interface rendering. Anthropic also said some built-in features, including /diff, were already implemented as Mods.
Anthropic said sample Mods were available on GitHub and warned that they ran with the user's permissions and were not sandboxed. It said organisations could control which Mods were allowed to load.
The first official Mod plugin was called You Should Know. Anthropic said it launched a separate agent that monitored Claude's output and sent a heads-up when it found information users might have missed.
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Companies
- Anthropic
- released Mods for Claude Code and described how they work
Products and systems
- Claude Code
- received the new Mods system
- Mods
- plugin-based system that changes Claude Code’s interface and behaviour
- You Should Know
- first official Mod plugin that watches output for missed information
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