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Claude Code mods

Anthropic · 1 October 2026

Claude Code mods are small TypeScript functions that rewrite prompts, add UI or replace built-in features, shipped inside plugins.

Lets users or Claude itself change how Claude Code behaves without forking it. Works in the CLI and desktop app. Mods run with the same machine access as Claude Code and are not sandboxed, so only trusted sources should be installed.

Date
Thursday, 1 October 2026
Lab
Anthropic
Kind
feature
Access
closed API

Latest feature in the dataset; adoption data does not yet exist.

Sources

  1. claude.com/blog/claude-code-mods

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