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claudepad

A notepad pane for Claude Code: per-project and global notes, tags, search, a multi-line editor, NOTES.md sync, pinned notes sent as context, and tools so Claude can jot notes too.

Code you can checkTerminal + desktopPaneStatus lineToastBoxButtonClientInputText
writes files, draws

What it does

  • Draws a pane, toasts
  • Adds /notes, /note
  • Watches tool calls and can refuse them
  • Hooks prompt.submit, session.start, ui.message
  • Keeps its own state between turns

Good points

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

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 claudepad by Noel Wilsson (pane, status, toast), as ModsCode read it from the mod's code:
// https://modscode.com/claude-mods/mods/nwilsson-claudepad/
// 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 pane: open it with $.ui.open({ id: 'my-pane', title: "claudepad" })
  on('ui.render', { component: 'Pane', requestId: 'my-pane' }, async ($, e) => {
    const { Box, Input, Text, Button } = $.ui.resolve(e)
    const search = '…'
    const name = '…'
    const n = '…'
    const baseName = '…'
    const countLabel = '…'
    const countLabel2 = '…'
    const plural = '…'
    return (
      <Box flexDirection="column">
        <Input label="+ global: " placeholder="Write a note and press Enter" value="" submitLabel="add" autoFocus />
        <Box gap={1}>
          <Text dimColor>
            Add to:
          </Text>
          <Button plain>
            ● project
          </Button>
          <Button plain>
            ● global
          </Button>
          <Button plain>
            ✎ multi-line note
          </Button>
        </Box>
        <Box marginTop={1} gap={1}>
          <Input label="🔍 " placeholder="Search notes" value={`${search}`} submitLabel="search" />
          <Button plain dimColor>
            clear
          </Button>
        </Box>
        <Box gap={1} flexWrap="wrap">
          <Text dimColor>
            Tags:
          </Text>
          <Button plain>
            {`● #${name} ${n}`}
          </Button>
          <Button plain>
            {`● #${name} ${n}`}
          </Button>
          <Button plain>
            {`● #${name} ${n}`}
          </Button>
          <Button plain dimColor>
            all tags
          </Button>
        </Box>
        <Box marginTop={1}>
          <Text bold>
            {"📁 "}
            {baseName}
          </Text>
          <Text dimColor>
            {" ("}
            {countLabel}
            )
          </Text>
        </Box>
        <Text dimColor>
          No matches here.
        </Text>
        <Box marginTop={1}>
          <Text bold>
            🌐 Global
          </Text>
          <Text dimColor>
            {" ("}
            {countLabel2}
            )
          </Text>
        </Box>
        <Text dimColor>
          No matches here.
        </Text>
        <Box marginTop={1}>
          <Text bold>
            🗂 Other projects
          </Text>
          <Text dimColor>
            {" ("}
            {plural}
            )
          </Text>
        </Box>
        <Box marginTop={1} gap={2}>
          <Button plain dimColor>
            export to NOTES.md
          </Button>
          <Button plain dimColor>
            import from NOTES.md
          </Button>
          <Button plain dimColor>
            clear done
          </Button>
        </Box>
      </Box>
    )
  })

  on('session.start', async ($, e, next) => {
    const text = '…'
    await $.ui.toast(`📝 Claude added a global note: ${text}`)
    return next(e)
  })
}

The mod's own code

Shown under the mod's licence (MIT); its text is below. Keep the notice if you copy these lines.

hooks/register.tsx lines 527–686 · Pane
  on('ui.render', { component: 'Pane', requestId: PANE }, async ($, e) => {
    const els = $.ui.resolve(e)
    const { Box, Text, Button } = els
    const Input = 'Input' in els ? els.Input : undefined
    const project = await projectOf($)
    const list = await read($, notes)
    const where = await read($, scope)

    const session = await read($, editor)
    if (session) {
      const Client = 'Client' in els ? els.Client : undefined
      const isLines = !Client || (await read($, isLineMode))
      const isNew = session.id === 'new'
      const heading = isNew
        ? `✎ New note (${where === 'global' ? 'global' : baseName(project)})`
        : '✎ Editing note'
      const save = async () => $.ui.toast(await saveEditor($))

      // Line mode: the draft as numbered lines, one Input adding or replacing a line.
      const lineView = async () => {
        const text = await read($, draft)
        const all = text === '' ? [] : text.split('\n')
        const setLines = (fn: (lines: string[]) => string[]) =>
          update($, draft, current => fn(current === '' ? [] : current.split('\n')).join('\n'))
        const editLine = (line: number | null) =>
          update($, editor, current => (current ? { ...current, line } : current))
        const target = session.line !== null && session.line < all.length ? session.line : null
        return (
          <Box flexDirection="column">
            {all.length === 0 && <Text dimColor>Empty. Type the first line below and press Enter.</Text>}
            {all.map((line, i) => (
              <Box key={`line-${i}`} gap={1}>
                <Text dimColor={target !== null && target !== i} bold={target === i}>
                  {`${String(i + 1).padStart(String(all.length).length)} │ ${line}`}
                </Text>
                <Button key={`line-edit-${i}`} plain dimColor onPress={() => editLine(i)}>
                  edit
                </Button>
                <Button
                  key={`line-del-${i}`}
                  plain
                  dimColor
                  onPress={async () => {
                    await setLines(lines => lines.filter((_, at) => at !== i))
                    await editLine(null)
                  }}
                >
                  ×
                </Button>
              </Box>
            ))}
            {Input && (
              <Input
                key={target === null ? `line-add-${all.length}` : `line-set-${target}`}
                label={target === null ? `${all.length + 1} + ` : `${target + 1} ✎ `}
                placeholder={target === null ? 'Next line; Enter adds it (empty adds a blank line)' : 'Enter replaces the line; empty deletes it'}
                value={target === null ? '' : all[target] ?? ''}
                submitLabel={target === null ? 'add line' : 'replace'}
                autoFocus
                onSubmit={async value => {
                  if (target === null) {
                    await setLines(lines => [...lines, value])
                  } else {
                    await setLines(lines =>
                      value === '' ? lines.filter((_, at) => at !== target) : lines.map((l, at) => (at === target ? value : l)),
                    )
                    await editLine(null)
                  }
                }}
              />
            )}
            {target !== null && (
              <Button key="line-stop" plain dimColor onPress={() => editLine(null)}>
                back to adding lines
              </Button>
            )}
          </Box>
        )
      }

      return (
        <Box flexDirection="column">
          <Text bold>{heading}</Text>
          {isLines || !Client ? (
            await lineView()
          ) : (
            <Box flexDirection="column">
              <Client key={`editor-${session.id}`} module="./editor.tsx" props={{ text: session.initial }} />
              <Text dimColor>
                Click the box to type · Enter new line · Ctrl+S save · arrows, Home/End, PgUp/PgDn move · Esc leaves the box
              </Text>
            </Box>
          )}
          <Box marginTop={1} gap={2}>
            <Button key="editor-save" variant="primary" onPress={save}>
              Save
            </Button>
            <Button key="editor-cancel" role="dismiss" onPress={() => closeEditor($)}>
              Cancel
            </Button>
            {Client && (
              <Button
                key="editor-mode"
                plain
                dimColor
                onPress={async () => {
                  const text = await read($, draft)
                  // Back to the full editor: it reopens on the text as it stands now.
                  await update($, editor, current => (current ? { ...current, initial: text, line: null } : current))
                  await update($, isLineMode, value => !value)
                }}
              >
                {isLines ? 'switch to full editor' : 'switch to line editor'}
              </Button>
            )}
          </Box>
        </Box>
      )
    }

    const search = (await read($, query)).trim()
    const tag = await read($, activeTag)
    const isSearching = search !== '' || tag !== null
    const shown = (note: Note) =>
      (search === '' || matches(note, search)) && (tag === null || tagsOf(note.text).includes(tag))

    const ordered = (subset: Note[]) =>
      [...subset].sort(
        (a, b) =>
          Number(b.isPinned) - Number(a.isPinned) ||
          Number(a.isDone) - Number(b.isDone) ||
          a.createdAt - b.createdAt,
      )
    const allHere = list.filter(note => isHere(note, project))
    const allGlobal = list.filter(isGlobal)
    const here = ordered(allHere.filter(shown))
    const global = ordered(allGlobal.filter(shown))
    // Only while searching: matches from every other project too.
    const elsewhere = isSearching
      ? ordered(list.filter(note => !isGlobal(note) && !isHere(note, project) && shown(note)))
      : []

    const submit = async (value: string) => {
      const text = value.trim()
      if (text !== '') {
        await addNote($, text, 'you', where)
      }
    }

    const toggle = (id: string, field: 'isDone' | 'isPinned') =>
      change($, all => all.map(note => (note.id === id ? { ...note, [field]: !note[field] } : note)))

    const move = (id: string) =>
      change($, all =>
        all.map(note =>
          note.id === id ? { ...note, project: isGlobal(note) ? project : null } : note,
        ),
      )

    /** The note's text with each #tag drawn in its color. */
Licence text (MIT)
MIT License

Copyright (c) 2026 Noel Wilsson

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

How to build this: Pane (panel), Deny a tool call

What its code calls

writes filestool callsremembers

What its code shows

Read from the source at commit 31b74d539501 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.hooks/register.tsx
ParsesEvery file parses as TypeScript or JavaScript.2 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.listed in its repository's .claude-plugin/marketplace.json: installs from there
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 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.MIT
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.adds command notes, adds command note, adds tool add_note, adds tool list_notes
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 (notes, note), prompt.submit, tool.call · reads: ui.message · also: session.start, ui.render (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.files: NOTES.md
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: NOTES.md; the prompt box

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

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From its marketplace

Its repository is its marketplace. Add that marketplace (in the terminal with these commands, or in the desktop app's plugin settings) and install the mod from it:

/plugin marketplace add nwilsson/claudepad
/plugin install claudepad@claudepad
/reload-plugins

This installs the marketplace's latest commit, which may not be the one read here (31b74d539501). Compare them before you install. /reload-plugins loads it into a session that is already open.

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/nwilsson/claudepad
git -C claudepad checkout 31b74d539501093698d269253f9595ded39c04ce
claude plugin validate claudepad
claude --plugin-dir claudepad

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