Best Claude Code agents and subagents

The author leveraged Anthropic's newly introduced mods mechanism to create a mod that allows an agent to report the progress of another agent or long script by periodically outputting a specific parseable string.

The Claude Code team has launched Mods, allowing users to customize how Claude works and looks using only prompts, and to share Mods as plugins for others to use.

X post claiming a built-in Claude Code mod called "You Should Know" that runs a side agent to flag mistakes by both Claude and the user.

Claude Code adds mods functionality, allowing customization of behavior and interface with a few lines of TypeScript, installed as plugins via /plugin, built on hooks; Anthropic says /diff and AGENTS.md support are built with mods.

The author built a dispatch dashboard mod and a handoff mod with Claude Mod. They show all sub-conversation states in the main conversation and run finishing commands such as git push/merge in the background after review.

Sidekick is an open-source macOS Claude Code mod that lets users define a persona in one sentence to drive a session hands-free, with spoken interruptions and voice answers.

The author showcases Claude Code's /shot slash command: it can capture any window without stealing focus, and /shot history opens a panel to search through past screenshots (by on-screen content). Under the hood, it's based on a lightweight Swift MCP server that lets the Agent take and annotate screenshots on its own.

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The author built their first Claude Code Mod: a meter showing how easily Claude finds things in the codebase, with a button to make the next search faster.

An X post describing a Claude Code mod that lets Claude delegate tasks to GPT or another Claude instance while continuing to work with the user, with a hermit crab panel UI showing each sub-agent's activity.

Claude Code 2.1.287 is released, including 106 CLI changes, adding Claude Mods plugin deep behavior modifications, a caretaker plugin, and multiple fixes and improvements.

User thanks the Anthropic team, sharing that the first mod significantly improved work efficiency, generating a session board pane with categorized information including recent questions, pending replies, and open PRs.

A case study of building a /realtime-voice voice-call feature for a custom agent with Claude Mods; the post mentions shared code and an explainer video but gives no direct repository link or installation steps.

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