I put my Claude Code sessions on Discord — and now it's a one-line plugin
About 7,000 developers install a little tool of mine every month. It has 7 GitHub stars. I think about that gap a lot — but it also means thousands of these cards are quietly running in Discord right now, which is the whole point. It's called claude-rpc , and as of today you can install it from inside Claude Code itself. What it is claude-rpc is a small Node daemon that takes the lifecycle events Claude Code already fires — session start, each tool call, token counts — and turns them into a live Discord Rich Presence card on your profile: current model, project, what tool is running, plus lifetime stats. Your friends see what you're building; you get a year heatmap of your own work. It's free, open source, and has zero runtime dependencies — the Discord IPC client is hand-rolled, so the entire supply chain fits in a single review. The new part: a Claude Code plugin Two lines, in the editor: /plugin marketplace add rar-file/claude-rpc /plugin install claude-rpc@claude-rpc The card shows up on your next session. That's it. The plugin itself is deliberately thin — one SessionStart hook that runs the same installer you'd run by hand ( npx claude-rpc@latest setup ) once, in the background, then gets out of the way. Claude Code measures it at ~0 tokens of context per session. The real package still does the real work: wiring hooks, holding Discord's local socket, starting at login. It's now the fifth way to install the same tool — npx , a curl one-liner, Homebrew, a Windows exe, and now this — so pick whatever fits your setup. How it actually works No magic: 5 hooks, one small state file, and a daemon that holds Discord's local socket. No polling, no network calls, no telemetry you didn't opt into. If you want to read it, start with src/discord-ipc.js . Try it Site + build log: https://claude-rpc.vercel.app Source: https://github.com/rar-file/claude-rpc Built solo, on weekends. If one of those 7,000 cards ends up being yours, a GitHub star is the cheapest possible way to