Tools
Things outside Claude Code itself. Verified 2026-09-20.
Session & account
| Tool | What it does | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| cc-switch | Desktop app to switch between Claude Code providers and accounts | ★134k. This is what "cswap" in my notes was |
| CodeIsland | Live agent status in the MacBook notch | ★2.3k. Already wired into my settings.json |
| vibe-notch | Same idea, notifications-focused | ★2.5k, quieter since April |
Skills & discovery
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
skills.sh + npx skills | The registry and CLI. Install, update, search skills across GitHub. See skills |
| vercel-labs/find-skills | A skill that finds skills — npx skills find from inside a session |
npx claude-doctor | Analyses your own session history for friction patterns: edit-thrashing, frustration, excessive exploration. Abandoned (v0.0.3, April) — run it once for the report, do not adopt it |
claude-doctor's output is the single most useful thing in this list, because
it is data about your sessions. Its suggested CLAUDE.md rules are already
folded into this kit's.
Token economy
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| RTK | CLI proxy compressing command output before the agent reads it. 60–90% on bash output, 99% on test runs. Full page |
| headroom | Same idea as an MCP server: compresses tool output, logs and RAG chunks |
| snip | CLI proxy, declarative rules, 60–90% |
Documents
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| pdf-inspector | PDF → clean Markdown, and text-vs-scanned classification. No OCR. Skill in this kit |
| anydoc | Any document → Markdown. The generalisation of the above |
npx -y skills@latest add firecrawl/anydoc
Browser
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| playwright-mcp | Drive a real browser from the agent. The default choice |
| browser-use | Python agent framework for browser automation. Heavier; for building an agent, not for driving one |
Design reference
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| refero.design | Searchable library of real product UI. "How do others solve this screen" before generating one |
| interfaces.dev/cheat-sheet | The rules behind the interface-cheatsheet skill |
Benchmarks
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| deepswe.datacurve.ai | Cost and performance comparison across coding models |
Catalogs
- awesome-claude-code — 21 categories
- awesome-mcp-servers
- awesome-claude-skills
- awesome-agent-skills — 1000+
- awesome-copilot
- agentation.com — agent tooling directory