givememod

Say /givememod and Claude Code builds a mod for the task in front of you.

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givememod is a Claude Code skill that makes Claude Code mods on demand. It reads the conversation you are in, proposes a small mod that fits it (a progress bar of the plan, a counter of files touched, a guard on the one risky command of this task, a watcher on your tests), builds it from tested templates, loads it live and tunes it until you like it. The mods you like become favorites; the rest disappear with the session.

Why

Since October 2026 Claude Code has mods: small plugins that run inside Claude Code and can draw a band above the prompt, open a sidebar, hold a tool call until you answer, or add a command that answers instantly. More than 3,000 public mods appeared in the first weeks. Most are general products. What is missing is the small mod you want for this task: the bar for this migration, the checklist for this bug, the guard for this deploy. givememod writes that one in a minute, and knows what the 3,000 others already figured out.

Features

• One command — /givememod a progress bar for this refactor, or just "make me a mod for this"
• Reads the situation — plan in play, many files, long jobs, risky commands, subagents, waiting on CI, answers ending in options: it proposes the mod that fits, and on a long task offers one by itself, once
• 11 tested templates — plan progress, files touched, context gauge, turn receipt, goal pin, risky-command hold, command watcher, reply buttons, pinboard with a tool for Claude, focus timer, blank starter; each passes claude plugin validate and its tests
• Loads live — written into the session's mods folder, it appears when the reply ends; every tweak reloads the same way
• Favorites — keep a mod and it goes to your skills folder, where Claude Code loads it in every session with no install; the next time a similar task comes up it is proposed first
• The whole corpus inside — 29 building blocks with code, a drawing cookbook, every documented trap with the official limits, the test kit, a review checklist for third-party mods
• A map of 3,057 public mods — what people build, why, how, and the best example for each job, every one linked
• What the best mods know — 222 mod repositories read file by file: the techniques, glyphs, palettes, icons, sprites, sounds, helper files and tools worth reusing, each with its source and licence
• Zero tokens by default — the templates make no model calls and add nothing to the context

Quick Start

Paste this into Claude Code (terminal or the desktop Code tab):

Install the Claude Code plugin givememod from https://github.com/timoncool/givememod. In the shell run `claude plugin marketplace add timoncool/givememod`, then `claude plugin install givememod@givememod`, and check that `claude plugin list` shows givememod enabled. Then tell me to run /reload-plugins (or restart Claude Code) so that /givememod appears, and after that to type /givememod in any conversation.

Or by hand, in any terminal:

claude plugin marketplace add timoncool/givememod
claude plugin install givememod@givememod

Mods need Claude Code 2.1.287+ (2.1.286+ in the desktop Code tab). The plugin is installed for your user, so it is there in terminal and desktop sessions alike; inside a terminal session /plugin install givememod@givememod works too.

Usage

/givememod a bar of the plan above the prompt
/givememod hold any rm -rf or force push until I confirm
/givememod watch `npm test` every 20 seconds
/givememod which mod would help here?
make me a mod that counts the files you touch

The first time a mod is written in a session, Claude Code asks Enable hot reloading for this session? — choose Enable for this session. The mod appears when the reply ends; ask for changes and each one reloads the same way.

Keep a mod: say "keep this one". It is copied to ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ (or to the project's .claude/skills/ to keep it for one project) and noted in ~/.claude/givememod/FAVORITES.md. Claude Code loads a folder there with a plugin.json as <name>@skills-dir from the next session, with nothing to install; claude plugin disable <name>@skills-dir switches it off.

Other things it does: explains why a mod does nothing, reviews a third-party mod before you install it (what it can reach, what it costs per turn), and answers "who already built X?" from the map of public mods.

Made with givememod

Mods it built in real sessions (the sessions were in Russian): a spec check that counts which points of the brief are done, open or not started; a Spotify player above the prompt; and a 12-stage GTA V dubbing pipeline, with the running step's own counter and a tick when it finishes.

slapbox. Began as "a mod to spank Claude when it messes up" in a givememod session and grew into a mod of its own: eight slappers, nine butts, and Claude hears the tally with your next message.

What is inside

How it works

1. Situation: what you asked, the shape of the work, session state, the project, your favorites.
2. Candidate: the smallest mod that helps; /givememod builds it at once and names the runner-up, and unasked it is only offered, in one line.
3. Build: a template copied into the session's mods folder and adapted with the building blocks, following the rules the loader enforces.
4. Check: claude plugin validate and claude plugin test before you see it.
5. Tune: shorter, under the prompt, in a sidebar, only while Claude works, another colour, ask before X.
6. Favorite: kept mods go to your skills folder, load in every session and are proposed first next time.

Other Projects by @timoncool

Authors

• Nerual Dreming — Telegram | neuro-cartel.com | ArtGeneration.me

Acknowledgements

Built on Anthropic's mods documentation, the built-in mods and sample mods. The map of public mods comes from karanb192/awesome-claude-code-mods. Traps and patterns were merged from the community mod skills listed in references/sources.md — BeLazy167, Sstobo, DannyMac180, jclfocused, ysoftman, BorjaGM1, emanueledenaro, jamubc, tomada1114, nogu66, karanb192 and others. Example mods by hamzafer, sezaakgun and jarrodwatts (MIT).

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License

MIT. Example mods keep their own licenses (MIT, Apache-2.0), with the license file beside them.