modscode / Gallery / cc-shorts
cc-shorts
Play YouTube Shorts in your Claude Code
What it does
- Draws a pane, toasts
- Adds /shorts
- Hooks classic.SessionStart, session.end, session.start, ui.close
- Keeps its own state between turns
- Starts processes
Good points
- No network calls
- Written in TypeScript
- Has a desktop-specific branch
- 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 cc-shorts by Matthew Lee (pane, toast), as modscode read it from the mod's code:
// https://modscode.com/gallery/mthli-cc-shorts/
// 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 $.ui.open({ id: 'my-pane', title: "Shorts" })
on('ui.render', { component: 'Pane', requestId: 'my-pane' }, async ($, e) => {
const { Text } = $.ui.resolve(e)
return (
<Text dimColor>
Run Claude Code in a terminal to play Shorts.
</Text>
)
})
on('session.start', async ($, e, next) => {
const answer = '…'
const nameList = '…'
await $.ui.toast(`cc-shorts: yt-dlp cannot read ${answer}; it reads ${nameList}`)
await $.ui.toast(`cc-shorts: download failed, skipping to the next one`)
return next(e)
})
}
The mod's own code
Shown under the mod's licence (MIT); its text is below. Keep the notice if you copy these lines.
hooks/register.tsx lines 232–322 · Pane
on('ui.render', { component: 'Pane', requestId: PANE }, async ($, e) => {
if (e.surface !== 'terminal') {
const { Text } = $.ui.resolve(e)
return <Text dimColor>Run Claude Code in a terminal to play Shorts.</Text>
}
const { Box, Text, Button, Image, Raster } = $.ui.resolve(e)
const s = await read($, shorts)
// The draw is the first to see the keyboard come or go (the person's
// ctrl+x tab, a click, Esc); the switch runs on after it returns. Idle is
// a pane closing (`shutDown`), whose last draws still hold the keyboard.
void holdKeys($, e.props.isFocused && s.status !== 'idle')
layout = videoBox(e.props.bodyColumns, e.props.scroll.bodyRows)
const short = s.shorts[s.queue[s.cur] ?? '']
const f = s.frame
const hasPicture = f !== undefined && (s.status === 'playing' || s.status === 'paused')
let picture
if (hasPicture && s.mode === 'raster') {
picture = (
<Raster key={VIDEO} columns={f.columns} rows={f.rows} cells={lastCells ?? blankCells(f.columns, f.rows)} />
)
} else if (hasPicture) {
const source = lastSource ?? { file: f.file, format: 'rgb' as const, width: f.width, height: f.height }
picture = <Image key={VIDEO} source={source} columns={f.columns} rows={f.rows} alt={short?.title || ' '} />
} else {
picture = (
<Box width={layout.columns} height={layout.rows} alignItems="center" justifyContent="center">
<Text dimColor wrap="wrap">
{s.message || 'Run /shorts to start'}
</Text>
</Box>
)
}
const isLiked = short !== undefined && hasLike(s, short.id)
const where = `${clockTime(s.pos)} / ${clockTime(short?.duration ?? 0)}`
const state = s.status === 'paused' ? `⏸ ${where}` : s.status === 'playing' ? `▶ ${where}` : ''
const notes = [
state,
isLiked ? 'Liked' : '',
s.muted ? 'Muted' : '',
s.isLoggedIn ? '' : 'Signed out: /shorts browser to switch',
]
.filter(Boolean)
.join(' · ')
// Each key in a cell as wide as the widest, so the two rows' columns line
// up and a label that changes (Pause to Play) moves nothing.
const cell = (key: string, hotkey: string, label: string, onPress: () => void) => (
<Box width={KEY_COLUMNS}>
<Button key={key} plain hotkey={hotkey} label={label} onPress={onPress} />
</Box>
)
return (
<Box flexDirection="column" alignItems="center">
{picture}
{short ? (
<Box height={1} overflow="hidden">
<Button
key="author"
plain
label={`${short.author || 'YouTube'} ↗`}
onPress={() => void openInBrowser($, short.id)}
/>
</Box>
) : (
<Text> </Text>
)}
{/* Two rows whatever the title's length, so the buttons stay put. */}
<Box height={2} overflow="hidden">
<Text wrap="wrap">{short?.title ?? ' '}</Text>
</Box>
<Text dimColor wrap="truncate">
{notes || ' '}
</Text>
{/* Two rows of four: eight in one row outgrow the 50 columns asked for. */}
<Box flexDirection="row" columnGap={KEY_GAP} flexWrap="wrap">
{cell('next', 'j', 'Next', () => void skip($, 1))}
{cell('previous', 'k', 'Prev', () => void skip($, -1))}
{cell('pause', 'p', s.status === 'paused' ? 'Play' : 'Pause', () => void togglePause($))}
{cell('replay', 'r', 'Replay', () => void skip($, 0))}
</Box>
<Box flexDirection="row" columnGap={KEY_GAP} flexWrap="wrap">
{cell('like', 'l', isLiked ? 'Unlike' : 'Like', () => void toggleLike($))}
{cell('mute', 'm', s.muted ? 'Unmute' : 'Mute', () => void toggleMute($))}
{cell('open', 'o', 'Open ↗', () => void (short && openInBrowser($, short.id)))}
{cell('close', 'x', 'Close', () => void shutDown($).then(() => $.ui.close({ id: PANE })))}
</Box>
</Box>
)
})Licence text (MIT)
MIT License Copyright (c) 2026 Matthew Lee 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 programsreads filesenv varsdrives Clauderemembers
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 3aee2cf11a20 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.2 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).hooks/register.tsx:188 find (not on Windows); hooks/register.tsx:342 rm (not on Windows); hooks/register.tsx:395 which (not on Windows); hooks/register.tsx:398 head (not on Windows); hooks/register.tsx:511 mkdir (not on Windows) |
| 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.hooks/register.tsx:143 a program named at run time; hooks/register.tsx:410 a program named at run time; hooks/register.tsx:518 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.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 mthli/cc-shorts/plugin install cc-shorts@cc-shortsThis installs the marketplace's latest commit, which may not be the one read here (3aee2cf11a20). 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 "mthli-cc-shorts" with its code and make me a pane like itSearch them from Claude: the MCP connector
Similar designs
-
Ask Claude…Fix login▸★ build ok▸★ build ok▸★ build ok+3 moretasks 3 pending · Glob claimed · 3 doneConsensus42%
-
Ask Claude…2h 10m · █████░░░✓ build ✓ build ✓ buildJavaKotlin3 Python■ ok 3 ■ ok 3 ■ ok 3 Razor proven 3 Razor proven 3 Razor proven 3Phases ──────── 3/3build Pythonbuild Pythonbuild Python… 3 more phasesLua ──────── 3/Kotlin■ the whole upgrade Ruby■ build build Ruby■ build build Ruby■ build build Ruby … 3 moreNext ──────── PythonRuby (by hand)Podsclick a button, or ctrl+x tab then Tab, EnterAttention ──────── 3! Scala ! Scala ! Scala … 3 moreSession ──────── okJava
-
What it does
- Draws a pane, toasts
- Hooks session.start, ui.close, ui.message
-
Ask Claude…moai-boardmoai-boardPickedx closebuild 1build 2build 3r refreshQueue not read yetokPick
-
Open a file first: /crit-tui file <path>Reopen this one in the crit browser view.Ask Claude…
-
Ask Claude…./rows.tsx●●●●●×./rows.tsxnothing loaded yet● Fix login● Fix login● Fix login● Fix login● Fix login● Fix login● Fix login● Fix login● Fix login./rows.tsxWorkspaceWorkspaceWorkspaceselected: build● open in Databricks