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. 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.