These 5 Claude Code Mods Are Insanely Good
Five Claude Code mods that save you, Blast Radius stops destructive commands, Replay Theater shows edits in order, and three more that catch what the built-ins miss. Claude Code shipped mods on October first: small TypeScript functions that draw side panes, add status bands, or step in front of tool calls. Here are five that earn their keep by showing you something the built-in features, like slash diff, do not, right when it matters most. Blast Radius freezes destructive commands like rm -rf, git reset hard, force pushes, and database migrations, showing the exact files or commits at risk before you choose Proceed or Cancel. Replay Theater steps through file edits one by one in chronological order when a single turn touches multiple files. The CC PR tracker parks your pull request's merge state, review decision, and required checks on one line above the prompt, feeding Claude the failing log link automatically. Transcript-redactor swaps API keys for placeholders before Claude reads them and restores the real values when commands run on your machine. Flightdeck docks a live dashboard showing your subagents, permission checks, context usage, and turn costs in one unified view. Each mod runs with your full permissions and is not sandboxed, so always run claude plugin validate on a cloned repo before installing to inspect which events it hooks and what external actions it requests. Two of these are Anthropic samples shared as-is without support; three are community plugins. Best for builders running Claude Code with auto mode, subagents, or shell commands who want tighter visibility and safety before changes hit disk. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:47 PR Tracker 2:22 Replay Theater 4:32 Redactor 6:44 Flightdeck 9:08 Blast Radius 11:44 Verdict Tools & resources mentioned: - Claude Code Mods documentation: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/plugins/mods/overview - Replay Theater: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code-playground - Blast Radius: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code-playground - CC PR Tracker: https://github.com/sezaakgun/cc-pr-tracker - Transcript-redactor: https://github.com/ray-amjad/claude-code-mods - Flightdeck: https://github.com/scasella/claude-flightdeck About The Stack The Stack helps you build with AI. Each video takes one tool, model, or workflow and shows how it works in a few focused minutes, with the real benchmarks and real costs. We go deep on Claude Code and Cursor for AI coding, AI agents and MCP servers, the open-source AI tools and GitHub repos most people miss, RAG and vector search, fine-tuning, and running local LLMs on your own machine with Ollama and LM Studio. We compare models like ChatGPT and Claude, test AI automation with Zapier, Make, and n8n, and flag the tools that actually ship. Subscribe for new breakdowns: https://www.youtube.com/@the-stack-ai?sub_confirmation=1 #claudecode #aicoding #devtools
