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00:00:00Every day, you're being told there's a new Cloud Code plugin that is going to change
00:00:03everything. And it's gotten to the point where there's so much noise out there
00:00:07that most of us have stopped listening entirely. But luckily for you, I've found some diamonds in
00:00:11the rough, 10 of them, in fact, and I am going to be sharing them all with you today.
00:00:16These are 10 Cloud Code plugin skills and CLIs that will actually make a difference on your
00:00:21next project. And no, none of them are the big names you already know about, like superpowers
00:00:25or front-end design. Instead, these are all relatively new. So unless you are as obsessed
00:00:30with this stuff like I am, I promise you will find something you haven't seen before.
00:00:34So the first one on our list is Graphify. And I actually did a full video on this yesterday.
00:00:39I will link that above. Now, Graphify is all about being able to point Cloud Code at some
00:00:45sort of repo, some sort of code base, and create a knowledge graph out of it. When I talk about
00:00:49a knowledge graph, I'm talking about something like this. This looks super cool, right? Visually
00:00:55stunning. But what it really is for Cloud Code is a map. It is a map showing Cloud Code how
00:01:00everything is connected and why. By creating this sort of knowledge graph with Graphify,
00:01:05we are able to have Cloud Code answer questions about a code base more effectively than without
00:01:10the graph. Normally it uses something called grep, but if we have the knowledge graph, we're
00:01:15able to answer the same questions with less tokens being consumed. Now, Graphify comes with
00:01:21a ton of commands. But luckily, when you install this thing, it includes a Graphify skill, which
00:01:26teaches Cloud Code what command it needs to use for what job. And there are some interesting
00:01:30ones in here. If you just do forward slash Graphify, that's going to have it run through
00:01:34the code base and create that knowledge graph you saw. But we can do things like add an Obsidian
00:01:38flag, and it will actually generate a brand new Obsidian vault for that repo you've just created.
00:01:44So if you're someone who loves Obsidian, but you want to add a little more power to the memory layer,
00:01:48Graphify makes total sense. Now, for those of you who are looking at this knowledge graph,
00:01:51like, hey, it looks neat. But what happens when I update the repo? It's a living, breathing thing.
00:01:56Well, Graphify thought about that. You can run this hook command, which will auto rebuild after
00:02:00every commit. So it stays updated. And auto rebuild sounds scary, like it's going to cost a bunch
00:02:05of APIs. That's not the case. It does AST only, which basically means the LLM isn't even
00:02:10involved. It's a deterministic thing. Now, the second skill on the list is actually a couple
00:02:15skills, and it comes from Matt Pocock, and that is Grill Me and Grill With Docs. These are two
00:02:22skills that are essentially plan mode on steroids. I love plan mode. You should be using it before every
00:02:27single feature or project. But Grill Me and Grill With Docs, I would argue, are a little bit better
00:02:31because it does what plan mode does. It asks you a ton of questions, so you and Claudco are on the same
00:02:36page, but it goes a bit deeper than the standard plan mode. And on top of that, these skills are
00:02:40pretty lightweight, so you aren't adding some huge token cost every time you spin it up.
00:02:46Now, the big sell for Grill Me and Grill With Docs and why these skills exist is we are trying to
00:02:50solve the problem of the agent not doing what we want. As Matt writes here, the most common failure
00:02:57in software development is misalignment. You think the dev knows what you want. You then see what
00:03:01they've built, in this case, Cloud Code, and you realize it didn't understand you at all. And if you've
00:03:06just been using plan mode and you expect you and Cloud Code to be exactly aligned on the same page after like
00:03:11three questions, you're going to be disappointed. And you've probably been disappointed in the past. And this is what
00:03:16Grill Me and Grill With Docs solves for. And piggybacking off that is skill number three, and that's Grill Me Codex.
00:03:22This is actually one I created. I did a video on this as well. And this takes Matt Pocock's Grill Me and Grill With Docs
00:03:29and adds a second layer to it. Because personally, I don't think it's enough for us to just get on the
00:03:36same page with Cloud Code in terms of our plan. I want to have a second set of eyes actually take a look
00:03:42at the plan Cloud Code has come up with. Yeah, you can ask me all the questions you want, but do you
00:03:47actually understand what Cloud Code built? Is it actually the best path forward? If you aren't an expert
00:03:53software engineer, you actually can't answer that question. Neither can Cloud Code, because
00:03:56Cloud Code cannot be trusted all the time to necessarily evaluate its own code correctly.
00:04:03This is something Anthropic has even brought up. So what this skill does is it brings in Codex to review
00:04:10the plan in a read-only sandbox. So you and Cloud Code have a back and forth, it creates the plan,
00:04:15then Cloud Code comes and takes a look. But it not only takes a look once, it has multiple rounds,
00:04:21up to five rounds, where Cloud Code and Codex go back and forth. And at the end, it's going to give
00:04:27you a thumbs up when they're both aligned. So we kind of get the best of both worlds. We get the best
00:04:31of Matt Pocock's grill me, and then we add a sort of Codex adversarial review. So you can be very
00:04:38confident that what you've come up with is the best path forward. And speaking of Codex, that brings us
00:04:42into plugin number four, which is the official Codex plugin for Cloud Code. What I just described
00:04:47in the last one, where we have this adversarial review and this back and forth, might be a bit
00:04:52much for some people. We don't need all that. We just want Codex to be able to come in and just do
00:04:56one pass at what we're looking at, or attack one feature. And the Codex plugin is perfect for that.
00:05:01This is from OpenAI themselves. So this isn't just some random guy putting stuff together. This is
00:05:07from, you know, the actual creators of Codex. And when you install this plugin, you're able to use it
00:05:12inside of the Cloud Code terminal. And it can do things like review, just do a basic review of what
00:05:17you've done. It has an explicit adversarial review, which goes deeper into some specific domains that you
00:05:23might not have thought of. And you can do things like Codex Rescue. So if you were building some
00:05:28specific feature and you wanted Codex just to work on that on its own, almost on the side, you can do
00:05:33that as well. And you can do this even if you aren't paying for OpenAI. There is a free tier for
00:05:39Codex now. Usage, you know, will be sort of an issue, but this is sort of like a great stepping stone
00:05:45if you don't want to go all in on Codex yet, but you want a second pair of eyes, but you don't want to
00:05:49do the whole free local thing. So highly suggest checking this out. It's been out for a couple months
00:05:54now, but to be honest, it's hard to find people who are really using this in their day-to-day
00:05:58workflows. Now, tool number five is Claude Obsidian. We all know about Obsidian, right? It's a free tool
00:06:04that allows us to organize our markdown files. And it really came into vogue in the AI space when
00:06:08Karpathy came out and talked about his wiki sort of style organization. Well, what if we had a plugin
00:06:15that organized it for us? That's exactly what this thing does. So this repo is meant to do everything
00:06:21Karpathy talks about when it comes to setting up your Obsidian Vault, but to automate the process. As it says
00:06:27here, you drop in the sources, whatever those are, Claude reads them, extracts entities and concepts,
00:06:32updates cross-references, and files everything into a structured Obsidian Vault. And the wiki or the
00:06:39vault itself continues to get richer and richer with each ingestion, which means we can more easily or we
00:06:46can more effectively have Claude code. Take a look at a large corpus of documents, whether they're
00:06:51structured or unstructured and give us correct answers. And what's also cool about this thing is
00:06:55the end of every session, Claude updates a hot cache. The next session starts with a full recent context,
00:07:01no recap needed. So if you're someone who's really interested in Claude and Obsidian and want sort of
00:07:07like an easy way to do all that for you and have all the organization be built in, highly suggest you
00:07:12check out this repo. Again, it is the Claude Obsidian repo. And speaking of Karpathy, we have to mention this
00:07:19one. This repo has 170k stars. It's a little bit older, but it's still one I wanted to bring up. And this is
00:07:25Karpathy's Claude.md file. And this is a great example of where we can make really effective changes with how we use
00:07:32Claude code in a rather simple manner. Because this is all it is. It's just a Claude.md file you can use. And it just talks about a few
00:07:40conventions that Claude should always follow. And they seem obvious on the surface, but there's also a reason
00:07:46this is so popular. The first one being think before coding. Number two, simplicity first, three surgical
00:07:53changes, four goal-driven execution. And that's pretty much it. Again, it seems obvious and you almost want
00:08:00to laugh like, okay, yeah, duh, you should do this. But there's something to be said about codifying this
00:08:04in a Claude.md file. That way, this is always followed for everything you do. And instead of
00:08:11having Claude try to go as fast as possible, these guidelines bias towards caution. Then moving on to
00:08:16tool number seven, we have Impeccable, which is my favorite front-end design tool in the game today.
00:08:22It's just one skill, but it encompasses 23 commands. And it's all about defeating the AI slop monster.
00:08:29Now, the amount of commands it has at its disposal are quite large, like all these different things,
00:08:35colorize, animate, onboard, distill, quieter. How are you supposed to know what these things are
00:08:40supposed to do? Well, obviously Claude code knows, but it helps for us to have an understanding of
00:08:45what's actually going on under the hood. And luckily, Impeccable makes it really easy because they have an
00:08:49entire website that breaks down with visuals what this actually brings to the table. For example,
00:08:56if I was wondering what Boulder does, and I will move this over here so it's easier to see,
00:09:00I can see what it looks like normally inside of Claude code, and I can see what it looks like with
00:09:05Impeccable. If I was looking at animate, again, we have Claude code design, and then we have
00:09:12Impeccable's design. We have this for 23 different sets, which is really, really cool. Another cool
00:09:17feature is that you can iterate on your UI with the live mode. So it'll start up a dev server. It'll
00:09:23actually bring up your website, and you can actually point at different elements of your
00:09:27website and edit them with Impeccable in somewhat of a live manner, which is really great because I
00:09:32know for me, I like to see the visual changes myself on the screen instead of always working
00:09:37in code. The number eight on the list is the Higgsfield CLI and Higgsfield MCP. I love this
00:09:41thing because I have a one-stop shop for every single AI image generator, AI video generator. And this is
00:09:48something I use multiple times a week. I do a lot of content, obviously, and a big form of content for
00:09:54me is things like carousels. And I'm able to create a full automation workflow, which brings in certain
00:10:02AI image generators with the Higgsfield CLI and just streamlines the whole process. Beyond that,
00:10:07things like Higgsfield MCP are also really great if you're doing front-end design work and want to
00:10:11bring an image or videos into your UI. Now, number nine on the list is Notebook LMPy, and I will
00:10:18never stop putting this in every single Cloud Code skill plugin CLI list I ever create because this is
00:10:23my favorite one. I use this literally every single day. This CLI lets you hook up Cloud Code to Notebook
00:10:29LM, and you get everything inside of Notebook LM and more with this tool. Why is it so good? Well,
00:10:35because Notebook LM is actually amazing, and it's free. You can offload tons of tasks to Notebook LM and
00:10:42Google servers, actual AI tasks that would otherwise cost you usage and tokens. And instead, Notebook LM
00:10:48does all of it for you. And like I said, the CLI actually gives you stuff that you can't do inside of
00:10:52the Notebook LM interface. Things like batch downloads, slide revisions, slide decks, PowerPoint,
00:10:57on and on and on. So I'm getting Notebook LM and more, and because it's a CLI, I can now integrate
00:11:03it into a number of skills. So I do tons of research related to YouTube that bring in Notebook LM
00:11:10Pi because Notebook LM itself is really good at processing and dealing with videos, especially
00:11:16YouTube stuff, because it's all under the Google umbrella. And last but not least, we have the official
00:11:20N8N MCP server. N8N still has a place in your AI toolkit. It isn't the dominant no-code platform it
00:11:27was like a year ago. But if you're someone, especially someone who works with clients and
00:11:32needs to create rather simple automations or workflows that the client themselves need to get
00:11:37hands-on with, there's no better way to do that than N8N. And the N8N MCP is the best thing on the
00:11:43market. We had really hacky options in the past, but with this tool, which you can use on the self-hosted
00:11:49version as well, by the way. So for all intents and purposes, it's free. You don't really ever have
00:11:55to even go into the N8N canvas except to like do a final check. This works really, really well. It's
00:12:01better than anything we've had in the past. So if you're someone who uses N8N in any capacity,
00:12:05you need to use this MCP. So those are the 10 Claude Code plugin skills and CLIs that I've been using
00:12:11in my projects lately. And I think they can definitely improve yours. So as always, let me know what you
00:12:18thought, make sure to check out Chase AI Plus down in the pinned comment if you want to get your hands
00:12:23on my Claude Code masterclass. And besides that, I'll see you around.
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