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code-race

Race others at typing a line of code, right in Claude Code: start with /race (or the Race button while Claude thinks), type in your message box.

Code you can checkTerminal + desktopBandToastBoxButtonSvgText

What it does

  • Draws a band above the prompt, toasts
  • Adds /race
  • Hooks prompt.edit, prompt.submit, session.start
  • Keeps its own state between turns
  • Calls the network

Good points

  • Starts no processes
  • 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)

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

// Drawn like code-race by Dmitry Nehaychik (band, toast), as modscode read it from the mod's code:
// https://modscode.com/gallery/nnixaa-code-race/
// 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, Svg } = $.ui.resolve(e)
    const status = '…'
    const trackSvg = '…'
    const lineSvg = '…'
    const code = '…'
    return (
      <Box flexDirection="column" rowGap={1} width="100%">
        <Box flexDirection="row" columnGap={2} alignItems="center">
          <Text bold>
            Code race
          </Text>
          <Text dimColor>
            {status}
          </Text>
          <Button label="Start" variant="primary" />
          <Button label="Copy invite" />
          <Button label="Rerace" variant="primary" />
          <Button label="×" plain role="dismiss" />
        </Box>
        <Svg source={`${trackSvg}`} alt="Race track" />
        <Svg source={`${lineSvg}`} alt={`${code}`} height={22} />
        {await next(e)}
      </Box>
    )
  })

  on('session.start', async ($, e, next) => {
    const why = '…'
    const invite = '…'
    await $.ui.toast(`Code race: ${why}`)
    await $.ui.toast(`Copied: ${invite}`)
    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.

plugins/code-race/hooks/register.tsx lines 635–736 · Band
  on('ui.render', { component: 'AbovePrompt' }, async ($, e, next) => {
    if (e.props.hasSurvey || (e.surface !== 'terminal' && e.surface !== 'desktop')) return next(e)
    const r = await read($, race)
    const b = await read($, board)
    const now = await $.clock.now()
    const { Box, Text, Button } = $.ui.resolve(e)

    // The leaderboard, asked for with /race top, while no race runs.
    if (b && (!isCurrent(r) || phaseOf(r, now).stage === 'done')) {
      const head = (
        <Box flexDirection="row" columnGap={2} alignItems="center">
          <Text bold>Code race</Text>
          <Text dimColor>Leaderboard · each player's fastest race</Text>
          <Button key="close" label="×" plain role="dismiss" onPress={() => update($, board, () => null)} />
        </Box>
      )
      if (e.surface === 'desktop') {
        const { Svg } = $.ui.resolve(e)
        return (
          <Box flexDirection="column" rowGap={1} width="100%">
            {head}
            <Svg source={boardSvg(b)} alt="Leaderboard" height={boardHeight(b)} />
          </Box>
        )
      }
      return (
        <Box flexDirection="column" width="100%">
          {head}
          {terminalBoard(b, e.props.maxRows, Text)}
        </Box>
      )
    }

    if (!isCurrent(r)) return next(e)
    const p = phaseOf(r, now)
    const len = r.code.length
    const status = statusOf(r, p, now, e.surface === 'terminal')

    // The line, a window around where you are: what you typed dim, the next character on
    // an orange ground (an underline would hide an underscore), then what is ahead; the
    // rest opens as you go.
    const lineOf = (ahead: number) => {
      const from = Math.max(0, r.pos - BEHIND)
      const next_ = r.code[r.pos] === ' ' ? '␣' : (r.code[r.pos] ?? '')
      return (
        <Text>
          <Text dimColor>{`${from > 0 ? '…' : ''}${r.code.slice(from, r.pos)}`}</Text>
          <Text bold color="#ffffff" backgroundColor={r.wrong > 0 ? 'error' : YOU}>{next_}</Text>
          <Text>{r.code.slice(r.pos + 1, r.pos + 1 + ahead)}</Text>
          <Text dimColor>{r.pos + 1 + ahead < len ? '…' : ''}</Text>
        </Text>
      )
    }

    const isDone = p.stage === 'done'
    const isWaiting = p.stage === 'joining' && !!r.party && !!r.roomId // a friends' room, filling up
    const quit = <Button key="quit" label="Quit" onPress={() => quitRace($)} />
    const invite = `/race join ${r.party}`
    const copy = async (surface: RenderSurface) => {
      const { isCopied } = await $.ui.copy({ text: invite, surface })
      $.ui.toast(isCopied ? `Copied: ${invite}` : `Send your friends: ${invite}`)
    }
    const header = (
      <Box flexDirection="row" columnGap={2} alignItems="center">
        <Text bold>Code race</Text>
        <Text dimColor>{status}</Text>
        {isWaiting && <Button key="start" label="Start" variant="primary" onPress={() => startParty($)} />}
        {isWaiting && <Button key="copy" label="Copy invite" onPress={press => copy(press.surface)} />}
        {isDone && <Button key="again" label="Rerace" variant="primary" onPress={() => startRace($, r.party)} />}
        {isDone ? <Button key="quit" label="×" plain role="dismiss" onPress={() => quitRace($)} /> : quit}
      </Box>
    )

    // The terminal: the lanes, then one row right over the prompt: the line while the race
    // runs, the header otherwise. The band keeps its height from joining to the end.
    if (e.surface === 'terminal') {
      const ahead = Math.max(12, Math.min(AHEAD, e.props.bodyColumns - BEHIND - 14))
      return (
        <Box flexDirection="column" width="100%">
          {terminalTrack(r, p, now, e.props.bodyColumns, e.props.maxRows, Box, Text)}
          {p.stage === 'racing' ? (
            <Box flexDirection="row" columnGap={2}>
              {lineOf(ahead)}
              {quit}
            </Box>
          ) : (
            header
          )}
        </Box>
      )
    }

    // The desktop: a plain picture, not a frame: a frame reloads, and flashes, on every redraw.
    const { Svg } = $.ui.resolve(e)
    return (
      <Box flexDirection="column" rowGap={1} width="100%">
        {header}
        <Svg source={trackSvg(r, now)} alt="Race track" height={trackHeight()} />
        {p.stage === 'racing' ? <Svg source={lineSvg(r)} alt={r.code} height={LINE_H} /> : null}
      </Box>
    )
  })
Licence text (MIT)
MIT License

Copyright (c) 2026 Dmitry Nehaychik

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

networkremembers

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 6bae7711e241 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 readEvery module hooks/hooks.json names was read.plugins/code-race/hooks/register.tsx
ParsesEvery file parses as TypeScript or JavaScript.1 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, with its own branch for the desktop
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.plugins/code-race/hooks/register.tsx:96 fetch(SERVER + path); plugins/code-race/hooks/register.tsx:203 fetch(SERVER + '/leaderboard')
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 files or environment variables and reaches the network.reaches the network, but reads no files and no environment variables
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

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 nnixaa/claude-code-race
/plugin install code-race@claude-code-race

This installs the marketplace's latest commit, which may not be the one read here (6bae7711e241). Compare them before you install.

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