Install
Needs Claude Code 2.1.287 or later, in a terminal or the desktop app's Code tab. Run both inside Claude Code:
/plugin marketplace add hellosverre/claude-skins
/plugin install skins@hellosverre-mods
Restart Claude Code. The noir skin is on; type /skin to change it.
Looking for more mods? /plugin install mod-store@hellosverre-mods, then /mods browses and installs about 2,700 of them from a pane, showing what each one can access first.
Update
skins checks for a new release once a day and shows a toast when you are behind. To update:
claude plugin marketplace update hellosverre-mods
claude plugin update skins@hellosverre-mods
Then restart Claude Code. Open sessions keep the version they started with.
Uninstall
claude plugin uninstall skins@hellosverre-mods
To keep it installed but go back to Claude Code's own drawing, run /skin off.
Use
/skin help lists every command in Claude Code; /skin list shows every skin and setting.
Skins
| Command | What it does |
|---|
/skin | Settings: pick a skin with a live preview, toggle parts, repaint any colour |
/skin <name> | Switch skin (names below) |
/skin list | Every skin, yours included, and every setting |
/skin help | Every command, in a table |
/skin off · on | Back to Claude Code's own drawing, or skins back on |
/skin gallery | Every element the skin draws, numbered, to point at |
/skin pin · unpin · share | Give this folder its own look, drop it, or make it the default |
/skin copy · copy code | Copy Claude's last reply, or just its last code block |
/skin calm · calm off | No motion, one line per tool row, read-only output folded, failures always whole; calm off puts back what you had |
Built-in skins: noir, tokyo-night, dracula, catppuccin, rose-pine, nord, gruvbox,
kanagawa, everforest, one-dark, solarized, night-owl, ayu, github, mono, terminal.
Options
| Command | What it does |
|---|
/skin tables on/text/off | Tables as cards, as selectable text on the desktop, or Claude Code's own |
/skin prompt left/right/plain | In the terminal, which side your prompt's outline sits on, or a plain leading marker. The desktop keeps Claude Code's own messages, with copy and rewind |
/skin words claude/skin | Whose words the spinner and the turn footer show: Claude Code's own, or the skin's (the default) |
/skin icons unicode/ascii | The icon set, and ASCII-only diagrams in the terminal |
Parts, each switched with /skin <part> on or off:
| Part | What it does |
|---|
rail | The coloured rail beside tool rows |
shimmer | The band of light across the spinner word |
band | The usage meters above the prompt |
countdown | Time left on each limit in the band |
compact | The Compact button in the band, with a nudge from 70% context (on by default) |
clip | Trim Claude Code's own shell output to its head and tail |
markdown | Alerts and task lists drawn |
quiet | Reads, searches and read-only commands folded to one row |
charts | Mermaid fences as charts |
math | Math typeset |
commands | Slash-command output as tables and cards |
shell | Shell output as a card |
highlight | Code blocks highlighted in the skin's colours |
hints | Tell Claude that charts draw here |
links | URLs and paths as links |
copy | Copy buttons on cards |
fold | Long blocks fold behind ▾ N more |
expand | Every run of reads and searches open, instead of the one line Read 3 · Search 2 ▸; off by default |
Design one with Claude. Ask "make me a skin that feels like a sunset". skins gives Claude a
design tool, so it builds the skin and applies it while you watch. Repainting a built-in skin saves
it as your own my-<skin>. Choices are remembered across sessions.
Preview
Drawn by the mod's own card code (scripts/previews.ts), not screenshots.
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