Friday Fixins : Claude Mods

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I've added a new Class at the Premium level as a reward for those wonderful folks who are helping to support this project at the Pro and VIP levels.

Claude Tips & Tricks where I will be sharing some of the under the cover stuff I do. I'll be adding an advanced class for the VIP users shortly to share some of my secret sauce tricks that really makes all this work.

But today's entry after having a chat with

@Mitch White

about saving Claude chat histories is /savechat mod. He found a Chrome extension to do this and I just started playing with Claude mods in the last few days. Its yet a really incredible addition to our toolkits that is vastly underrated so far.

A Claude mod is a small add-on that runs inside Claude Code and changes how it looks or behaves. A mod can draw things on screen, like a band above your prompt, a side panel, buttons, or a toast message. It can also add slash commands, such as /savechat. It can react to what Claude does, for example by saving a transcript, holding a risky command, or flagging something you might have missed. Anthropic launched mods on October 1, 2026, in Claude Code 2.1.287, so if you’ve updated, they’re already switched on.

The nearest comparisons are skills and connectors. A skill teaches Claude how to do a job, and a connector plugs it into another app. Both work from the outside. A mod runs inside Claude Code itself, so it can change what you see. Mods work in the Claude Code terminal and the desktop app’s Code tab. They don’t work in regular Claude chat, the VS Code extension, or cloud sessions.

/savechat once installed can be setup to run in every session to Save the entire chat to a markdown file, much like the chatlogs in WCP. Sometimes some of the best stuff we'd like to use/reuse or come back to later gets lost amongst the rest of what we do. This will automagically save both sides of the chat and the basic tools Claude calls (not all the details, just enough) into a markdown file in yoru Claude projects folder called Session-logs. As an option you can set this up to push to a github repo as a backup or to be able to use it on multiple machines.

There are instructions a 5 page detailed pdf and a .zip of all the source files need in the Claude Tips & Tricks Classroom now. I'll be adding a few more useful mods shortly. And I have an idea.....

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Friday Fixins : Claude Mods