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now-playing
Shows the track playing in Apple Music or Spotify above the prompt, with cover art, play/pause, skip, volume, shuffle and repeat controls, a share-link copy and an Up next pane.
What it does
- Draws a band above the prompt, a pane, toasts
- Watches tool calls and can refuse them
- Hooks prompt.compose, session.start
- Keeps its own state between turns
- Calls the network
Good points
- Written in TypeScript
- Has a desktop-specific branch
- Handles errors
- Writes no files
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 now-playing by Ben (pane, band, toast), as modscode read it from the mod's code:
// https://modscode.com/gallery/benjaminr-now-playing/
// 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 } = $.ui.resolve(e)
const stateGlyph = '…'
const titleText = '…'
const truncateText = '…'
const played = '…'
const remaining = '…'
const clock = '…'
const volumeText = '…'
const modes = '…'
const hotkey = '…'
const label = '…'
return (
<Box flexDirection="column">
<Box flexDirection="row" gap={1} borderStyle="round" paddingX={1}>
<Box flexDirection="column" flexGrow={1}>
<Box flexDirection="row" gap={1}>
<Text>
{stateGlyph}
</Text>
<Text bold>
{titleText}
</Text>
</Box>
<Text dimColor>
{truncateText}
</Text>
<Box flexDirection="row" gap={1}>
<Text>
<Text>
{played}
</Text>
<Text dimColor>
{remaining}
</Text>
</Text>
<Text dimColor>
{clock}
</Text>
<Text dimColor>
{volumeText}
</Text>
<Text>
{modes}
</Text>
</Box>
<Box flexGrow={1} />
<Box flexDirection="row" gap={1}>
<Button plain hotkey={`${hotkey}`} label={`${label}`} />
<Button plain hotkey={`${hotkey}`} label={`${label}`} />
<Button plain hotkey={`${hotkey}`} label={`${label}`} />
</Box>
</Box>
</Box>
{await next(e)}
</Box>
)
})
// the pane: open it with $.ui.open({ id: 'my-pane', title: "Up next & playlist" })
on('ui.render', { component: 'Pane', requestId: 'my-pane' }, async ($, e) => {
const { Box, Text, Button } = $.ui.resolve(e)
const truncateText = '…'
const label = '…'
const truncateText2 = '…'
const truncateText3 = '…'
const truncateText4 = '…'
const query = '…'
return (
<Box flexDirection="column" gap={1}>
<Box flexDirection="column">
<Box flexDirection="row" gap={1}>
<Text bold>
{truncateText}
</Text>
<Button role="dismiss" plain hotkey="x" label="close" dimColor />
</Box>
</Box>
<Box flexDirection="column">
<Text bold>
{`Add to the ${label}`}
</Text>
<Text dimColor>
{truncateText2}
</Text>
<Text dimColor>
{truncateText3}
</Text>
<Text dimColor>
{truncateText4}
</Text>
<Box flexDirection="column">
<Box flexDirection="row" gap={1}>
<Text dimColor>
{`"${query}"`}
</Text>
<Button plain label="clear" dimColor />
</Box>
<Text dimColor>
In your library, press one to add it to the playlist:
</Text>
<Button plain label={`${truncateText}`} />
<Button plain label={`${truncateText}`} />
<Button plain label={`${truncateText}`} />
<Text dimColor>
On Apple Music but not in your library, so not addable here.
</Text>
<Text dimColor>
Press one to open it in Music and add it to your library there:
</Text>
<Button plain dimColor label={`${truncateText}`} />
<Button plain dimColor label={`${truncateText}`} />
<Button plain dimColor label={`${truncateText}`} />
</Box>
</Box>
</Box>
)
})
on('session.start', async ($, e, next) => {
const errorText = '…'
const title = '…'
const label = '…'
await $.ui.toast(`Music did not start the track: ${errorText}`)
await $.ui.toast(`Could not add ${title} to the ${label}.`)
return next(e)
})
}
The mod's own code
Its licence text was not found at the commit read, so only the places in the source are linked.
What its code calls
networkruns programsreads filesenv varstool 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 cbd40ca7989d 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.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, with its own branch for the desktop |
| 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.its repository's .claude-plugin/marketplace.json does not list it: no install line to give |
| Programs on Windows | Whether every program it starts through $.process exists on Windows (tail, date, open, osascript, /usr/… do not).hooks/register.tsx:652 mkdir (not on Windows); hooks/register.tsx:851 open (not on Windows); hooks/register.tsx:1474 defaults (not on Windows) |
| Network | Whether every fetch names its https host in the code.hooks/register.tsx:796 fetch(catalogueSearchUrl(query, session.storefront, limi) |
| Programs | Whether every program it starts is named in the code and is not a shell, an interpreter or a network tool.hooks/register.tsx:366 a program named at run time; hooks/register.tsx:411 a program named at run time; hooks/register.tsx:512 a program named at run time; hooks/register.tsx:554 a program named at run time; hooks/register.tsx:566 a program named at run time |
| Reads and sends | Whether it both reads files or environment variables and reaches the network.reads environment variables and 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.no licence |
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