00:00:00If I was just starting Claude code in 2026,
00:00:02then these are the top 10 skills, plugins, and CLIs
00:00:05that I would install and start using right away.
00:00:08But even if you aren't brand new to Claude code,
00:00:11I still think you're gonna get introduced
00:00:12to a few you haven't seen before.
00:00:14And if that's the case, then I've done my job.
00:00:16So number one on the list is the Codex plugin for Claude code.
00:00:20Yes, that Codex from OpenAI.
00:00:22We have the ability to use Codex in conjunction with Claude.
00:00:27Now you might ask, why would I do that?
00:00:28Well, there's a very specific use case
00:00:30where you can get a ton of value
00:00:31out of combining these two tools.
00:00:33And that is Codex review and Codex adversarial review.
00:00:37Because when we create something in Claude code,
00:00:39especially if you don't come from a technical background,
00:00:41it can be difficult for us to actually assess
00:00:44if the code it created was the best path forward.
00:00:48Sure, I can look at the outputs, whatever Claude code gave me,
00:00:51but if I look at the actual code,
00:00:52do you know what's going on?
00:00:54Do I know what's going on?
00:00:55Not necessarily, if that isn't our domain.
00:00:58And while I can tell Claude code,
00:00:59take a look at your code and review it,
00:01:03the truth is most large language models,
00:01:06Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 included,
00:01:09look very nicely on their own code.
00:01:11They're not gonna come back and say, my code sucks.
00:01:14However, if we use an outside agent like Codex
00:01:16to do the code review for us,
00:01:18especially an adversarial review,
00:01:20where it's really getting into the nuts and bolts
00:01:22of how we put it together and telling us this is wrong,
00:01:25this isn't, well, we have a recipe for better outputs
00:01:29and better foundations inside of Claude code.
00:01:32Now installing this is very simple.
00:01:33If you search for a Codex plugin, Claude code,
00:01:35it's gonna take you to this GitHub and adding it
00:01:38and then installing it to the marketplace
00:01:39is as simple as copying these commands,
00:01:42going inside of Claude code and pasting them in there.
00:01:44Once you install it,
00:01:45you just have to run the reload plugins
00:01:47and then run Codex setup.
00:01:49To use this, you do need an open AI account.
00:01:52So if you have a chat GPT account,
00:01:53even if it's the go plan seven bucks a month,
00:01:55that's more than enough.
00:01:56From there, you just open Claude code
00:01:58in whatever project you're running
00:01:59and you run the command Codex colon adversarial review.
00:02:02And it will do all of this automatically.
00:02:04Now Codex has a few other commands,
00:02:05like a normal review that's not as hardcore.
00:02:09And you can also specify what exactly you want it to review.
00:02:12It also has options like Codex rescue.
00:02:14So if you want Claude code to just like give up
00:02:16and stop actually working for you,
00:02:18you want Codex to do the work,
00:02:19but you still wanna be inside the Claude code ecosystem.
00:02:21Maybe it's for a specific feature.
00:02:23We can use the Codex rescue command to do that.
00:02:26So all in all, this is a great plugin
00:02:28to add to any project you're running with Claude code,
00:02:30because it allows you to have a second set of eyes
00:02:32that are anthropics on your code
00:02:34to tell you if what you're doing makes sense.
00:02:36So before we move on a quick plug
00:02:38for my Claude code masterclass,
00:02:39it is the number one way to go from zero to AI dev,
00:02:42no matter your technical background or lack thereof.
00:02:46We focus on real use cases
00:02:47and it is updated every single week.
00:02:50So if you want to really master this tool, check it out.
00:02:54It's inside of Chase AI+.
00:02:55I'll put a link to that down in the comment.
00:02:57And also if you're just getting started,
00:02:59I also have the free Chase AI community.
00:03:01There's a link to that in the description.
00:03:03Now plugin number two is probably one
00:03:04you've heard a lot about lately.
00:03:06And that is Obsidian in conjunction with the Obsidian skills.
00:03:11So Obsidian is just a way for us to organize markdown files.
00:03:14So organize text files.
00:03:16It's completely free and it's super easy
00:03:18to set up with Claude code.
00:03:20If you go to obsidian.md, you can download it for free,
00:03:23install it and all you do is you set one file
00:03:26on your computer as the vault.
00:03:27I call mine the vault, you can call it whatever you want.
00:03:29From there, you just open up Claude code inside the vault,
00:03:32like I did here and you're pretty much ready to go.
00:03:34From that point forward,
00:03:35everything Claude code creates inside of that vault.
00:03:38And if it's a markdown file will become part of Obsidian.
00:03:40It creates these cool knowledge graphs like this,
00:03:42but what's actually cool about it is it makes it really easy
00:03:46for you to organize stuff.
00:03:47Obsidian sort of becomes a miniature rag system
00:03:50without all the overhead.
00:03:52This is something we walked through in a recent video
00:03:53and I'll link it above where I showed you
00:03:55how to create a vault system with Obsidian and Claude code
00:03:59that mimics what Carpathi was talking about
00:04:01in a recent viral tweet.
00:04:02This sort of very simple to set up folder system
00:04:05allows us to have a clear pathway
00:04:06where we have Claude code research things for us
00:04:08and then take that research
00:04:10and turn them into different Wiki articles
00:04:12that are simply organized by sub folders.
00:04:15That means we can have a system with hundreds,
00:04:16if not thousands of documents
00:04:18that are easy for both Claude code and us to navigate.
00:04:21And the easiest way to make sure Claude code
00:04:22is using Obsidian to its full potential
00:04:25is to install the Obsidian skills.
00:04:27This is from the creator, from the CEO of Obsidian himself.
00:04:31And it's just a simple GitHub repo
00:04:33that includes a set of skills that teach Claude code
00:04:36how to best use it.
00:04:36This sort of setup is perfect if you're using Claude code
00:04:39in any sort of personal assistant type project
00:04:41or any project that has a large and growing corpus
00:04:44of markdown files.
00:04:46And speaking of Carpathi,
00:04:47the third tool you wanna add to your Claude code toolbox
00:04:50is auto research.
00:04:52So auto research is essentially a machine learning algorithm
00:04:55in a box that we can use with Claude code
00:04:57to improve anything we want.
00:04:59We simply install auto research onto our computer
00:05:02using a few lines of code seen here.
00:05:04And then we simply open up Claude code and say,
00:05:07hey, I have some sort of program I'm trying to optimize.
00:05:10I have some sort of skill I'm trying to make better.
00:05:13Let's use auto research to do this.
00:05:15And it's going to run essentially
00:05:17a bunch of machine learning experiments on that program
00:05:21that you're trying to improve all automatically.
00:05:23It will discard any changes that don't improve the program.
00:05:26It will commit any changes that do.
00:05:27And over time, like you see here, you get a better product.
00:05:31And again, this runs all automatically.
00:05:32You don't really have to do anything.
00:05:34So auto research is perfect
00:05:35if you're doing anything in Claude code
00:05:37where you're trying to optimize something.
00:05:39Now, the fourth thing I wanna talk about
00:05:40is this brand new repo and set of skills.
00:05:42It's called awesomedesign.md.
00:05:45And it is all about front end design
00:05:47because Claude code sucks at it.
00:05:48Even with some of the baked in skills like front end design,
00:05:51it's just not very good.
00:05:52This is a huge step forward.
00:05:54So design MD takes a lot of its inspiration
00:05:56from Google stitch, which is what you see here.
00:05:58Google stitch is an AI tool.
00:06:00That's all about front end design.
00:06:01And one of the things Google stitch does
00:06:03is it creates design.md files for any website it's creating.
00:06:08Net design MD file, which you see over here on the right,
00:06:10looks something like this.
00:06:12I have it here inside of the notepad.
00:06:14So hopefully it's a little easier to see.
00:06:15It's just a very detailed,
00:06:18very well thought out prompt structure
00:06:20for creating front end designs, for creating web pages.
00:06:22This isn't something as simple as,
00:06:24hey, don't make it look like AI slop
00:06:27and change how the bento boxes look.
00:06:29This is much more detailed.
00:06:30And that is what awesomedesign.md is based on.
00:06:34What this repo does is it's taken a bunch of popular websites
00:06:38like Claude, like 11 Labs, like Cohere, on and on and on.
00:06:42And it's turned their websites
00:06:44into a design.markdown file like this.
00:06:47What does that mean for you?
00:06:48Well, that means when you're designing a website
00:06:50and you have some sort of inspiration,
00:06:52say from a website like Figma or Notion or Pinterest,
00:06:55and you want to use that as a foundation
00:06:57for what you're about to build,
00:06:58well, you just come in here,
00:07:00you click on one of these markdown files,
00:07:03and it essentially gives you a template in that style
00:07:06that you can use for your webpage.
00:07:08Everything from buttons to colors, to fonts, all that.
00:07:11This is a great jumping off point
00:07:13instead of just praying via prompt
00:07:15that Claude gives you something you like.
00:07:17And to use it is very easy.
00:07:18I would just copy this command, bring it inside a Claude code.
00:07:21It's gonna have all of this ready to go.
00:07:24This repo just came out last week.
00:07:25It's already at 38,000 stars.
00:07:26So if you're doing anything that requires a webpage
00:07:29that you don't want to look like crap,
00:07:31definitely check this out.
00:07:32Now for number five, let's talk about some CLI tools
00:07:35and specifically Fireacrawl CLI and the Fireacrawl skill.
00:07:39For the most part, every time we talk about a CLI tool,
00:07:41a command line interface,
00:07:42you're going to want a skill as well
00:07:44because the skill teaches called code how to use the CLI.
00:07:48So there are almost always a package deal.
00:07:51Now Fireacrawl is perfect
00:07:52if you're doing any sort of web scraping,
00:07:55especially if you're doing web scraping
00:07:57that has a lot of anti-bot protections built in.
00:08:00Because if you just rely on Claude code, standard web search,
00:08:03you're gonna run into issues
00:08:05on some of these more protected websites.
00:08:07Fireacrawl can get through all of that.
00:08:09Now, the big thing with Fireacrawl
00:08:10isn't that it just can go past these bot protections,
00:08:13but that when it goes and grabs data from the web,
00:08:15it brings it back in a structured format
00:08:17that's easier for large language models to read.
00:08:19Now, like all these CLI tools,
00:08:20installing this is literally one line of code.
00:08:22And while the main Fireacrawl product
00:08:24does require you to pay for an API,
00:08:26Fireacrawl also is open source.
00:08:28You won't have the proprietary Fireacrawl engine,
00:08:32which is essentially how they get past
00:08:34the more powerful bots.
00:08:35But if you're just trying to do some basic web scraping,
00:08:37and you don't need insane bot detection busters,
00:08:42then you might wanna just use
00:08:43the open source version as well.
00:08:45So you have some options here.
00:08:46Then moving on to another CLI
00:08:48that's also in the browser automation space,
00:08:51and that is the Playwright CLI.
00:08:52Nice thing about this one, totally free.
00:08:55Will you still pay for tokens?
00:08:56But it's not like the Fireacrawl web app version
00:08:58that requires us to pay for an API.
00:09:00So the Playwright CLI is the latest
00:09:03and greatest version of Playwright.
00:09:05It is better than the Playwright MCP.
00:09:07So if anyone tells you use the MCP, don't listen to them.
00:09:10The CLI is more effective, and it is cheaper.
00:09:13And so the Playwright CLI, what it does,
00:09:15it allows us to have Cloud Code
00:09:17do browsers automation on our behalf.
00:09:19Now, what do I mean by that?
00:09:20I mean, Cloud Code using Playwright
00:09:22will actually create its own instances of Chrome,
00:09:25as if you opened up Chrome and then do things on them,
00:09:28like log into websites and test things.
00:09:30Now, there's actually a lot going on with Playwright.
00:09:32It has a million different commands,
00:09:34but because you're using inside of Cloud Code,
00:09:36you don't need to know everything that you see here.
00:09:38Cloud Code understands what the commands are supposed to do.
00:09:42So once you install the Playwright CLI,
00:09:44you can just say something like,
00:09:45hey, Cloud Code, I want you to create new instances of Chrome
00:09:50and I want you to test the new website I just created,
00:09:52like test the form submission,
00:09:53and it will create as many Google Chrome tabs,
00:09:56essentially, as you want it to.
00:09:57And this is way better than the built-in Cloud with Chrome
00:10:01that you've seen running around.
00:10:02So there is a Cloud in Chrome Google extension
00:10:05where it will bring up a tab
00:10:07and Cloud will do things for you.
00:10:08That isn't great because the Cloud Code with Chrome
00:10:11is based off of screenshots,
00:10:13which are very slow and very expensive.
00:10:15That's not how Playwright looks.
00:10:17That's not how Playwright looks at the webpage
00:10:18and executes things.
00:10:20Playwright is actually looking at code under the hood.
00:10:23It's looking at what's called an accessibility tree,
00:10:24which makes it way more effective.
00:10:26So if you're doing anything where you need Cloud Code
00:10:28to actually manipulate web pages on the internet,
00:10:31this is what you wanna use.
00:10:32Now, tool number seven is one of my favorites
00:10:35and that is NotebookLM-PINE.
00:10:36If you've watched my channel at all,
00:10:37you've definitely seen me talk about this one.
00:10:40This CLI tool, alongside its skills,
00:10:43allows us to essentially hook up Cloud Code
00:10:46through the NotebookLM web app
00:10:48because the standard NotebookLM doesn't have an API.
00:10:50We can't naturally have Cloud Code talk to it.
00:10:52Yet, by using the CLI tool, we can do exactly that,
00:10:56which means anything you can do normally on NotebookLM,
00:11:00we can now do inside of Cloud Code and more
00:11:04because things like batch downloads, slide revision,
00:11:07full text access, and programmatic sharing,
00:11:10that's not available on the actual NotebookLM web app,
00:11:13but it's available through this system we use,
00:11:15through the CLI tool.
00:11:16And this also includes all the deliverables.
00:11:18So things like videos, slide decks, reports, everything,
00:11:22you can now do via Cloud Code.
00:11:23And the best part is it's essentially free.
00:11:26Everything that Cloud Code will be doing for analysis
00:11:29when you put in sources, whether it's YouTube videos
00:11:30or PDFs or whatever, well, that's actually offloaded
00:11:33to Google servers in this case.
00:11:35So if you're somebody who's struggling
00:11:36with Cloud Code usage, combining it with something
00:11:39like NotebookLM is a godsend
00:11:41because you're using way less tokens.
00:11:44Google's doing all the analysis,
00:11:45and then it just hands it to Cloud Code and you.
00:11:48Like all these tools, installation is very simple.
00:11:50It's a couple lines of code.
00:11:51And frankly, with all these tools,
00:11:52when it comes to installation,
00:11:54you can just tell Cloud Code what you're trying to do,
00:11:56and it will do it for you.
00:11:57You can just give it the URL for this GitHub.
00:11:59You can copy and paste the whole page.
00:12:01All of those things work.
00:12:02Cloud Code's smart enough to understand
00:12:04what commands it needs to run.
00:12:05Now, number eight is a skill,
00:12:07and arguably the most important skill you can learn,
00:12:10and that is the Skill Creator skill.
00:12:12Now, what makes this skill so much more powerful
00:12:14than the rest isn't that it just creates new skills.
00:12:17It's that it can measure skill performance.
00:12:20So if you're trying to create a custom skill,
00:12:22you need to know if this new skill
00:12:25actually improves whatever output you're trying to generate
00:12:28versus not having it at all.
00:12:30Before this Skill Creator skill, we really couldn't do that.
00:12:33Well, at least we couldn't do it easily.
00:12:34But now, by using the Skill Creator skill,
00:12:36it will actually run benchmarks and run A/B tests
00:12:39and give you quantifiable data
00:12:42from which you can start making decisions.
00:12:44And it isn't just with the skill or without the skill.
00:12:46By using the skill, we can test different improvements
00:12:49we're trying to make.
00:12:50So if I edit a skill because I think it's better,
00:12:52again, it can benchmark it in the same way.
00:12:54And this is huge because skills
00:12:56are arguably the most powerful native feature
00:12:58inside of Claude code.
00:12:59So if you ever are going to create your own skill
00:13:02or edit an existing skill, you need to use this.
00:13:05And it's very easy to install
00:13:06because it's an official Claude code plugin.
00:13:08So you're just gonna go slash plugin.
00:13:10You're going to be brought to the marketplace
00:13:13and then you just search for Skill Creator skill
00:13:15and install it.
00:13:16Now, number nine is a little niche,
00:13:17but it's one of my favorites and that is LightRag.
00:13:20This is an open source graph rag system.
00:13:23That is perfect.
00:13:24If you're trying to create something
00:13:25that's more robust than Obsidian.
00:13:27Now, Obsidian is obviously amazing,
00:13:28but there is a certain scale
00:13:29at which it begins to break down.
00:13:31And it is in fact cheaper and quicker
00:13:33to use a proper rag system.
00:13:35LightRag is perfect for this,
00:13:37primarily because it's lightweight and it's free.
00:13:39We don't have to go out there and pay
00:13:40for some wildly expensive graph rag system
00:13:43like graph rag itself from Microsoft.
00:13:46So if you're looking for something a little more robust,
00:13:48maybe you're doing a client project
00:13:49or you're dealing with something that is thousands
00:13:52and thousands of documents in size,
00:13:54LightRag is perfect for you.
00:13:55And last but not least is GWS.
00:13:57This is the CLI tool that will allow you
00:14:00to connect Claude code and your entire Google suite.
00:14:03This is super powerful,
00:14:05especially if you're trying to use Claude code.
00:14:06It's any sort of personal assistant.
00:14:08If you want Claude code to interact with your email,
00:14:10your docs, your calendar, you need this.
00:14:12Because there's been a lot of hacking things in the past
00:14:14that tried to do it,
00:14:15but this was created by Google developers.
00:14:18It is not an official Google product,
00:14:20but the Google team built this.
00:14:22So for all intents and purposes,
00:14:23it's one step below having the official Google stamp.
00:14:26Now, the one downside with GWS is the actual setup
00:14:29can be a little laborious and technical
00:14:31because you have to run through the Google cloud
00:14:33and enable a lot of things.
00:14:35I will put a link to a video above that can help with that.
00:14:38But the other thing you need to keep in mind
00:14:40is the amount of skills that are available to you.
00:14:43If you use GWS, you can see right here,
00:14:45all the different skills that are related to using GWS.
00:14:50And that's not necessarily a bad thing.
00:14:51A lot of these skills are essentially tailor-made workflows,
00:14:56things like rescheduling a meeting
00:14:57or organizing your drive folder
00:14:59or scheduling a recurring event.
00:15:01So instead of just hoping Claude code
00:15:03can gobble all the original skills together
00:15:06and figure out how to make the workflow work,
00:15:08well, Google was nice enough, or their team at least,
00:15:11was nice enough to give us all these recipes just for free.
00:15:15We don't have to think about it.
00:15:16But there's so many, you don't want all these loaded at once.
00:15:18So what I suggest you do is point Claude code at this repo
00:15:22and simply say, hey, which one of these
00:15:24are actually relevant for us
00:15:25and what we do in our day-to-day.
00:15:27So if you're someone who's trying to use Claude code
00:15:29as a personal assistant,
00:15:31as essentially what OpenClaw is presented as,
00:15:35then GWS is something you wanna use.
00:15:37So if you're new,
00:15:38I hope you were able to take a lot out of this video.
00:15:40If you're someone who's a bit more experienced,
00:15:42I hope at least two or three of those were brand new to you
00:15:44because there are so many tools, so many CLIs,
00:15:47so many plugins that are being added
00:15:49to the Claude code ecosystem every single day.
00:15:51It just gets very overwhelming.
00:15:53So I wanted to try to cut through all the noise
00:15:56and give you what I actually use on a very regular basis.
00:15:59So as always, let me know in the comments what you thought.
00:16:02Make sure to check out Chase AI+
00:16:04if you wanna get your hands on that Claude code masterclass,
00:16:06and I'll see you around.