now you can install it from inside Claude Code

As of today, claude-rpc installs as a Claude Code plugin. Open Claude Code and run two lines:

/plugin marketplace add rar-file/claude-rpc
/plugin install claude-rpc@claude-rpc

That is the whole thing. The Discord card shows up on your next session.

if you are new here

claude-rpc is a small Node daemon that takes the lifecycle events Claude Code already fires — session start, each tool call, token counts — and pipes them into the Discord Rich Presence card on your profile. Your friends see what you are building; you get lifetime stats. It is free, open source, has zero runtime dependencies, and I built it solo on weekends.

what the plugin actually does

Almost nothing, on purpose. It is one SessionStart hook that runs the same installer you would run by hand — npx claude-rpc@latest setup — once, in the background, then gets out of the way. No second daemon, no model-context cost; Claude Code itself measures the plugin at about zero tokens per session. The real package still does the real work: wiring the hooks, holding Discord's local socket, starting at login. The plugin is just a friendlier front door, and it is four small files if you want to read it first: the plugin source.

why add it if the install is identical

Discovery, mostly. The plugin marketplace is a place people already look, and installing from inside the editor is one less context switch than copy-pasting a shell command. It is now the fifth way in — npx, the curl one-liner, Homebrew, the Windows exe, and this — so pick whichever fits your setup. They all land in the same place.

the honest part

Numbers, because this is a build log: claude-rpc gets a little over seven thousand installs a month. It has, as I write this, seven GitHub stars. I am not going to pretend that gap does not keep me up — but it also means thousands of these cards are quietly running in Discord right now, which is the actual point. If yours is one of them, a star is the cheapest possible way to tell me it is working. And if you have never tried it, the door has never been easier to open:

/plugin marketplace add rar-file/claude-rpc
/plugin install claude-rpc@claude-rpc

Source, all five install paths, and a full security write-up: github.com/rar-file/claude-rpc.