mod-lab
Shows what mods can do: a live list of events, a dump of what a mod can read, and demos you run with one press.
What it does
- Draws a pane, the status line, toasts
- Watches tool calls and can refuse them
- Hooks agent.spawn, prompt.attachment, prompt.compose, prompt.context and 10 more
- Keeps its own state between turns
- Starts processes
Good points
- No network calls
- Written in TypeScript
- Handles errors
Code to start from
Two kinds: a starter modscode writes from the design above, and the lines of the mod's own code that draw it.
Starter (register.tsx)
import type { Register } from 'claude-code'
// Drawn like mod-lab by Anand Chapla (pane, status, toast), as modscode read it from the mod's code:
// https://modscode.com/gallery/achapla-mod-lab/
// 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 $.ui.open({ id: 'my-pane', title: "Mod lab" })
on('ui.render', { component: 'Pane', requestId: 'my-pane' }, async ($, e) => {
const { Box, Button, Text } = $.ui.resolve(e)
const length = '…'
const said = '…'
const label = '…'
const about = '…'
return (
<Box flexDirection="column">
<Box gap={1} flexWrap="wrap">
<Button label={`Events (${length})`} hotkey="e" />
<Button label="Demos" hotkey="d" />
<Button label="Dump" hotkey="u" />
<Button label="Clear" hotkey="c" />
</Box>
<Box marginTop={1}>
<Text wrap="wrap">
{said}
</Text>
</Box>
<Box flexDirection="column" marginTop={1}>
<Box flexDirection="column">
<Button label={`${label}`} plain />
<Text dimColor wrap="wrap">
{` ${about}`}
</Text>
</Box>
<Box flexDirection="column">
<Button label={`${label}`} plain />
<Text dimColor wrap="wrap">
{` ${about}`}
</Text>
</Box>
<Box flexDirection="column">
<Button label={`${label}`} plain />
<Text dimColor wrap="wrap">
{` ${about}`}
</Text>
</Box>
</Box>
</Box>
)
})
on('session.start', async ($, e, next) => {
await $.ui.status(`mod-lab: this is a status line`)
await $.ui.toast(`Hello from mod-lab`)
await $.ui.toast(`mod-lab: 3 seconds passed`)
return next(e)
})
}
The mod's own code
Shown under the mod's licence (MIT); its text is below. Keep the notice if you copy these lines.
mod-lab/hooks/register.tsx lines 556–659 · Pane
on('ui.render', { component: 'Pane', requestId: PANE }, async ($, e) => {
const { Box, Text, Button } = $.ui.resolve(e)
const columns = e.props.bodyColumns
const shown = await read($, view)
const said = await read($, result)
const list = await read($, entries)
const chosenId = await read($, selected)
const chosen = chosenId === null ? undefined : list.find(entry => entry.id === chosenId)
const header = (
<Box gap={1} flexWrap="wrap">
<Button
key="view:events"
label={`Events (${list.length})`}
hotkey="e"
{...(shown === 'events' ? { variant: 'primary' as const } : {})}
onPress={() => void show($, 'events')}
/>
<Button
key="view:demos"
label="Demos"
hotkey="d"
{...(shown === 'demos' ? { variant: 'primary' as const } : {})}
onPress={() => void show($, 'demos')}
/>
<Button key="dump" label="Dump" hotkey="u" onPress={() => void runDump($)} />
<Button key="clear" label="Clear" hotkey="c" onPress={() => void clear($)} />
</Box>
)
const report = said !== '' && (
<Box marginTop={1}>
<Text wrap="wrap">{said}</Text>
</Box>
)
if (shown === 'demos') {
return (
<Box flexDirection="column">
{header}
{report}
<Box flexDirection="column" marginTop={1}>
{DEMOS.map((demo, index) => (
<Box flexDirection="column">
<Button
key={`demo:${demo.key}`}
label={demo.label}
plain
{...(index < 9 ? { hotkey: String(index + 1) } : {})}
onPress={press => void runDemo($, demo, press)}
/>
<Text dimColor wrap="wrap">
{` ${demo.about}`}
</Text>
</Box>
))}
</Box>
</Box>
)
}
if (chosen !== undefined) {
return (
<Box flexDirection="column">
{header}
{report}
<Box flexDirection="column" marginTop={1}>
<Button key="back" label="Back to the list" hotkey="b" onPress={() => void update($, selected, () => null)} />
<Text bold>{`${timeOf(chosen.at)} ${chosen.event}`}</Text>
<Text wrap="wrap">
{detailOf(chosen.id) ??
'The full data of this event is no longer kept. It is lost when the mod reloads.'}
</Text>
</Box>
</Box>
)
}
return (
<Box flexDirection="column">
{header}
{report}
<Box flexDirection="column" marginTop={1}>
{list.length === 0 && (
<Text dimColor wrap="wrap">
No events yet. Send a prompt and watch this list. The newest event is at the top.
</Text>
)}
{[...list]
.reverse()
.slice(0, MAX_ROWS)
.map(entry => (
<Button
key={`entry:${entry.id}`}
label={rowOf(entry, columns)}
plain
dimColor
onPress={() => void update($, selected, () => entry.id)}
/>
))}
</Box>
</Box>
)
})Licence text (MIT)
MIT License Copyright (c) 2026 Anand Chapla 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.
What its code calls
runs programswrites filesdrives Claudetool callsremembers
The design, read from code
Drawn from the mod's source at the commit read, not from a run: a list is drawn three times, a condition takes its first branch that draws in the desktop app, and a value only the run time knows is shown as a made-up sample (dotted underline) or left out. Colours and type are this site's.
What its code shows
Read from the source at commit 743bfa001249 on 2026-10-06. 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 read | Every module hooks/hooks.json names was read.mod-lab/hooks/register.tsx |
| Parses | Every file parses as TypeScript or JavaScript.4 files parsed |
| All its code is in the mod | Every import is a file of the mod or the engine's own module; no packages, no require.all its code is in the mod |
| Readable | No 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 open | Network 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 draws | The 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 line | Whether 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 Windows | Whether every program it starts through $.process exists on Windows (tail, date, open, osascript, /usr/… do not).runs no program a Windows PC lacks |
| Network | Whether every fetch names its https host in the code.no network |
| Programs | Whether every program it starts is named in the code and is not a shell, an interpreter or a network tool.git (reaches the network) |
| Reads and sends | Whether it both reads files or environment variables and reaches the network.reads files and reaches the network |
| Keys in the source | Whether the source holds what looks like an API key or a private key.no keys in the source |
| Licence | An 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 |
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 the code below (or run claude plugin validate . in its folder), weigh what it reaches, and install the commit you read.
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 achapla/cc-mods/plugin install mod-lab@cc-modsThis installs the marketplace's latest commit, which may not be the one read here (743bfa001249). Compare them before you install.
Ask Claude about it
With the modscode connector added, Claude can read this design, what its code reaches and its code, and build on them. Ask it like this:
Read the modscode design "achapla-mod-lab" with its code and make me a pane like itSearch them from Claude: the MCP connector
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