Companion Tools

Note: These are third-party community and official tools — not maintained by the Metapowers project. Links and install commands were accurate at time of writing. Always check the source repository for the latest instructions.

Usage & Cost Monitoring

Track token spend, session costs, and rate limits.

ccflare

Usage dashboard with a web UI — more visual than ccusage. Acts as a proxy between your AI assistant and the Anthropic API with real-time analytics and intelligent load balancing.

git clone https://github.com/snipeship/ccflare && cd ccflare

GitHub · Website

Pairs well with: Any metapowers domain — monitor token costs across long design sprints or legal review sessions.

ccusage

CLI tool that analyzes token usage and costs from local JSONL files. Supports daily, monthly, and session views. Privacy-first — no data leaves your machine.

npx ccusage

GitHub · Website

Pairs well with: Any metapowers domain — quick cost check after a multi-phase workflow.

Claude Code Usage Monitor

Real-time terminal monitor with Rich UI showing token consumption, burn rate, cost analysis, and ML-based predictions about session limits.

uv tool install claude-monitor

GitHub

Pairs well with: Long-running sessions like /legal:draft or /project-management:sprint where token pacing matters.

Status & Developer Experience

See what's happening at a glance — context usage, active tools, running agents, and todo progress.

claude-hud

Shows context usage, active tools, running agents, and todo progress in your terminal status line.

# Configure via Claude Code's /statusline command

GitHub

Pairs well with: Multi-step workflows like /design:empathize → /design:prototype where tracking agent progress helps.

ClaudeCodeStatusLine

Displays model, tokens, rate limits, and git info with automatic update checks.

# Configure via Claude Code's /statusline command

GitHub

Pairs well with: Any domain — useful baseline status info during all metapowers sessions.

ccstatusline

Powerline-compatible status line with theme support and high customizability.

# Configure via Claude Code's /statusline command

GitHub

Pairs well with: Any domain — for users who want a polished, themed terminal experience.

Token Optimization

Reduce output token consumption without losing technical accuracy.

caveman

Makes Claude respond in compressed "caveman" language, cutting ~75% of output tokens. Code blocks, URLs, file paths, and commands pass through untouched — only prose is compressed.

# Auto-activates via Claude Code SessionStart hook
# See repo for installation instructions

GitHub

Pairs well with: Token-heavy domains like /marketing:strategy or /legal:assess where prose output is significant.

Memory & Context

Persist and retrieve knowledge across sessions.

MemPalace

Open-source AI memory system that stores conversation history as plain text with semantic search. Organizes data into a structured hierarchy — people and projects become "wings", topics become "rooms", content lives in "drawers". Achieves 96.6% retrieval recall without API calls or cloud services.

pip install mempalace
mempalace init ~/projects/myapp

GitHub

Pairs well with: Any domain — persist research findings, brand decisions, and architecture choices across sessions. Especially useful with /research:discover and /leadership:assess where insights accumulate over time.

Voice & Audio

Add voice interaction to your AI coding workflow.

Vox

Cross-platform CLI toolkit for text-to-speech with low-latency processing. Supports 6 backends (say, piper, qwen, kokoro, voxtream) with voice cloning and AI assistant integration.

brew install rtk-ai/tap/vox

GitHub · Website

Pairs well with: /coaching:* and /leadership:feedback — have coaching reviews and feedback read aloud for a more natural mentorship experience.

Skill & Plugin Discovery

Find and install community-built skills and plugins.

skills.sh

Skill marketplace and leaderboard run by Vercel. Supports 19+ AI agents. Tracks actual install counts. Uses the SKILL.md open standard.

npx skills add owner/repo

Website

Pairs well with: Extending metapowers with additional community skills for specialized workflows.

awesome-claude-plugins

Curated registry of production-ready AI coding plugins by ComposioHQ. Includes the Composio Tool Router connecting Claude to 500+ external apps (Slack, GitHub, email, etc.).

git clone https://github.com/ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-plugins
claude --plugin-dir ./connect-apps

GitHub

Pairs well with: /marketing:reach and /marketing:engage — connect to marketing platforms via the Tool Router.

ClaudePluginHub

Web directory for AI coding plugins with semantic search and AI-powered relevance ranking. Can generate custom plugins from a GitHub URL.

npx claudepluginhub owner/repo --plugin name

Website

Pairs well with: Discovering domain-specific plugins that complement metapowers workflows.

Official Marketplaces

Anthropic-maintained plugin collections with verified quality.

claude-plugins-official

The official Anthropic plugin marketplace with ~100+ verified plugins covering LSP integrations, GitHub, Playwright, Slack, and more. Auto-updates enabled by default.

/plugin install name@claude-plugins-official

GitHub

Pairs well with: /development:build and /development:test — official tooling integrations for the development workflow.

knowledge-work-plugins

14 role-based plugins for sales, marketing, finance, legal, HR, and brand voice. Each includes skills, slash commands, MCP connectors, and sub-agents tailored to a domain.

claude plugin marketplace add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
claude plugin install sales@knowledge-work-plugins

GitHub

Pairs well with: /marketing, /legal, and /branding domains — official role-based plugins that complement metapowers' methodology-driven approach.