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usage-beginner

Plain-language technical terms for beginners

Code you can checkTerminal + desktopPaneBandBoxButtonText
writes files, drives Claude, draws

What it does

  • Draws a band above the prompt, a pane
  • Adds /terms
  • Hooks session.start, turn.complete, turn.start

Good points

  • No network calls
  • Starts no processes
  • Written in TypeScript
  • Handles errors

Code to start from

A starter ModsCode writes from the drawing it read, and the mod's own lines that draw, where there are any.

Starter (register.tsx)

register.tsx
import type { Register } from 'claude-code'

// Drawn like usage-beginner by aqua5230 (pane, band), as ModsCode read it from the mod's code:
// https://modscode.com/claude-mods/mods/aqua5230-usage-beginner/
// Written by ModsCode from that reading, not copied from the mod: use it as you like.
// Each value below stands for one the mod works out at run time; put in your own.
export const register: Register = on => {
  // the band above the prompt; what else goes there is drawn under it
  on('ui.render', { component: 'AbovePrompt' }, async ($, e, next) => {
    const { Box, Text, Button } = $.ui.resolve(e)
    const index = '…'
    const term = '…'
    const plain = '…'
    const example = '…'
    const example2 = '…'
    const example3 = '…'
    const t = '…'
    return (
      <Box flexDirection="column">
        <Text dimColor>
          title
        </Text>
        <Box flexDirection="column" marginLeft={2}>
          <Button hotkey={`${index}`} plain label={`${term}    ${plain}`} />
          <Text wrap="wrap">
            {example}
          </Text>
        </Box>
        <Box flexDirection="column" marginLeft={2}>
          <Button hotkey={`${index}`} plain label={`${term}    ${plain}`} />
          <Text wrap="wrap">
            {example2}
          </Text>
        </Box>
        <Box flexDirection="column" marginLeft={2}>
          <Button hotkey={`${index}`} plain label={`${term}    ${plain}`} />
          <Text wrap="wrap">
            {example3}
          </Text>
        </Box>
        <Box marginLeft={2}>
          <Button hotkey="9" plain label={`${t}`} />
          <Text>
            {"   "}
          </Text>
          <Button hotkey="0" plain label={`${t}`} />
        </Box>
        {await next(e)}
      </Box>
    )
  })

  // the pane: open it with $.ui.open({ id: 'my-pane', title: "‹t›" })
  on('ui.render', { component: 'Pane', requestId: 'my-pane' }, async ($, e) => {
    const { Box, Text, Button } = $.ui.resolve(e)
    const term = '…'
    const plain = '…'
    const example = '…'
    const t = '…'
    const term2 = '…'
    const plain2 = '…'
    const example2 = '…'
    const term3 = '…'
    const plain3 = '…'
    const example3 = '…'
    return (
      <Box flexDirection="column">
        <Text dimColor>
          empty
        </Text>
        <Box flexDirection="column" marginBottom={1}>
          <Text wrap="wrap">
            {term}
            {" "}
            {plain}
          </Text>
          <Text wrap="wrap" dimColor>
            {example}
          </Text>
          <Button plain label={`${t}`} />
        </Box>
        <Box flexDirection="column" marginBottom={1}>
          <Text wrap="wrap">
            {term2}
            {" "}
            {plain2}
          </Text>
          <Text wrap="wrap" dimColor>
            {example2}
          </Text>
          <Button plain label={`${t}`} />
        </Box>
        <Box flexDirection="column" marginBottom={1}>
          <Text wrap="wrap">
            {term3}
            {" "}
            {plain3}
          </Text>
          <Text wrap="wrap" dimColor>
            {example3}
          </Text>
          <Button plain label={`${t}`} />
        </Box>
      </Box>
    )
  })
}

The mod's own code

Its licence text was not found at the commit read, so only the places in the source are linked.

How to build this: Pane (panel), Add a slash command

What its code calls

writes filesenv varsdrives Claude

What its code shows

Read from the source at commit e8340adf6dd4 on 2026-10-11. The first group decides whether a mod is listed; the rest is for you to weigh. A later commit is not read until the next crawl.

Decides the listing: code you can check
Entry readEvery module hooks/hooks.json names was read.claude_pane/usage-beginner/hooks/register.tsx
ParsesEvery file parses as TypeScript or JavaScript.4 files parsed
All its code is in the modEvery import is a file of the mod or the engine's own module; no packages, no require.all its code is in the mod
ReadableNo minified lines, no eval or new Function, no import of a computed path, no encoded blobs.no minified code, no eval, no encoded blobs
Calls in the openNetwork and programs are reached as $.http.fetch and $.process.run in place, never passed around.every call outside goes through $ in the open
For you to weigh before installing
Where it drawsThe terminal, the desktop app, both, or nothing (hooks only: a guard or a prompt rewriter), as its code says. Shown, never a reason to leave a mod out.draws in the terminal and the desktop app, the same in both
Install lineWhether its repository's own .claude-plugin/marketplace.json lists it, so it installs from that marketplace with the lines on its page.its repository's .claude-plugin/marketplace.json does not list it: no marketplace line to give; the page shows how to try the commit read
Programs on WindowsWhether every program it starts through $.process exists on Windows (tail, date, open, osascript, /usr/… do not).runs no program a Windows PC lacks
NetworkWhether every fetch names its https host in the code.no network
ProgramsWhether every program it starts is named in the code and is not a shell, an interpreter or a network tool.starts no programs
Reads and sendsWhether it both reads something of yours (files, environment variables, the transcript, settings) and reaches outside (the network, an MCP server, another session, telemetry).reads environment variables, files, but reaches nothing outside
Keys in the sourceWhether the source holds what looks like an API key or a private key.no keys in the source
LicenceAn open licence (MIT, Apache-2.0, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, 0BSD, CC0) with its text lets ModsCode show its code; otherwise the code is linked.AGPL-3.0 (not an open licence)
Settings hooksHooks declared in hooks/hooks.json or plugin.json beside the module: a command (a shell when it has no args), an HTTP request, an MCP tool or a model prompt at an event. They run outside $.no settings hooks: its function hooks alone
Servers it shipsMCP servers (a program, or a URL; a headersHelper is a shell command; a .mcpb bundle is unpacked at run time), LSP servers, monitors (a shell command for the whole session) and bin/ (on the PATH of the Bash tool).ships no MCP or LSP server, no monitor, no bin/
Skills, commands, agentsWhat its Markdown declares beyond text: allowed-tools granted for the turn, hooks added when a skill is invoked, a command run before Claude reads the skill.no skills, commands, agents or workflows
Tools and MCPWhether every tool it calls through $.tool.call and $.mcp.call is named in the code, and none is a shell (Bash through the tool runs a shell without $.process).calls no tool, MCP server or command
Asks of the modelCompletions it runs ($.model.complete, fork, classify), subagents it spawns, prompts it submits as you, and the tools, commands and agents it adds.model.complete, adds command terms
Events it hooksBy what a hook there can do: gates (refuse a tool call, a prompt, a setting, another plugin), shapes (what the model reads: the system prompt, tool descriptions, each request), reads (your input, the events of the settings hooks, every event with *), and the rest.gates: command.run (terms) · also: session.start, turn.start, turn.complete, ui.render (AbovePrompt, Pane)
Reads, by nameThe environment variables and files it names, and whether it reads the transcript, settings.json, the prompt box or the mouse selection.env: HOME, USERPROFILE; files: a path computed at run time, …/.claude/usage-status.json
Writes, by nameThe files and environment variables it names, and whether it changes settings, the prompt box, the clipboard, the conversation (a row the model reads) or another session.files: a path computed at run time

This is a reading of the code text, not a security review: it does not run the mod, and it cannot see what a program the mod starts does. The check before installing is yours. How mods are chosen

Install it

Check it yourself before you install it. Mods run unsandboxed, with your permissions, and ModsCode does not vouch for what this code does. Read its code (or run claude plugin validate . in its folder), weigh what it reaches, and install the commit you read.

Its repository's .claude-plugin/marketplace.json does not list it, so there is no marketplace line to give.

Try the commit ModsCode read

No marketplace needed. In a terminal, clone the repository, check out the commit read, validate the mod, and load it for one session:

git clone https://github.com/aqua5230/usage
git -C usage checkout e8340adf6dd4b1dde8234c994e1163e721309a42
claude plugin validate usage/claude_pane/usage-beginner
claude --plugin-dir usage/claude_pane/usage-beginner

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