claudhopper

The neighbors

Third-party apps that sit on top of Claude. None of these are made by Anthropic. Each one below was read off its maker's own site, and each brings a different answer to the same question: what if the terminal had furniture?

Good fences make good neighbors. Good neighbors bring their own API key.

Facts checkedNov 11at the source

Cockpits: many agents, one screen

  • T3 CodeAn open-source (MIT) control plane for coding agents. Runs Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Grok and more in one interface, gives each agent thread its own git branch, and opens pull requests with one button. Desktop, web, and iOS and Android apps. It uses the agent subscriptions you already have. Its own README calls it very early. The long version: install, phone access, permissions and updates.
  • TurnPanelA workspace for you, your team and your agents. It works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode and Grok Build, each installed from its maker and signed in with your own account, plus a built-in agent that runs any model including local ones. The Personal edition is free on your own hardware (macOS on Apple silicon today, Windows listed as coming). TurnPanel Server runs on Linux and lets teammates share a space's agents, memory, skills, apps and jobs. The core is announced as going open source under Apache 2.0, and is not there yet. The macOS preview is not notarized by Apple, so installing it takes one extra step that the site walks you through.
  • ConductorA Mac app for running Claude Code, Codex and Cursor agents in parallel, each in an isolated workspace, with a view of what each is doing and a place to review and merge the results.

Claudhopper move: Pick one cockpit, not three. Eleven terminal tabs were bad. Eleven cockpits are worse, and now they have dashboards.

Editors that let Claude in

  • ZedRuns “Claude Agent” as an external agent through the Agent Client Protocol. Install it from Zed's ACP registry, start a thread from the Agent Panel, and run /login inside it. Claude Agent handles its own authentication and billing, separately from Zed's own agent.
  • CursorAnthropic publishes the Claude Code extension for Cursor as well as VS Code. Same extension: inline diffs, @-mentions, plan review. See the Claude Code page.

Add-ons people actually keep installed

Small tools that bolt onto Claude Code. Each command below is the one printed in the project's own README.

  • ccusageReads your local usage data and reports tokens and cost by day, week, month or session, including Claude Code's five-hour billing blocks. MIT licensed. It also reads Codex, OpenCode and other agents. Run npx ccusage@latest. Nothing to configure, which is suspicious but true.
  • Playwright MCPFrom Microsoft. Gives Claude a real browser to drive, working from the page's accessibility tree instead of screenshots. claude mcp add playwright npx @playwright/mcp@latest
  • Context7From Upstash. Pulls current, version-specific library docs into the agent's context, so it stops inventing APIs from two versions ago. npx ctx7 setup --claude
  • GitHub MCP ServerFrom GitHub. Lets Claude browse repositories, manage issues and pull requests, and watch Actions runs. GitHub hosts a remote version, which is the easy option; a local one runs in Docker.

Claudhopper move: Run npx ccusage@latest before you decide whether your plan is too small. The frog was shocked. The frog is on Max now.

Plugins and connectors from other companies

  • The Claude directoryThird-party developers can submit plugins through a developer portal that opened September 25, 2026, then track review and usage.
  • Salesforce in ClaudeA plugin in beta since September 15, 2026 that brings accounts, opportunities and pipeline data into Claude with 37 sales skills, for paid-plan organizations approved by Salesforce.
  • MCP serversAnyone can publish a server for the Model Context Protocol, and thousands have. An MCP server gets the access you give it, so read what it does before you connect it. More on the build page.

Clodhopper move: Installing an unknown MCP server because the README had a nice logo. It can read whatever you let it read. The heron loves these people.

Before you install any of them

  • They are separate products with their own terms, prices and bugs. Anthropic does not support them, and neither do we.
  • Most of them drive Claude through your own subscription or API key. Check which, because one of those has a meter running.
  • Young tools change weekly. What is written here was true on the maker's site on November 11, 2026.
  • Built one? Tell us. If it is real and we can verify it, it gets a pad.
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