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v0.1.0

Ask Claude for advice in a side pane without touching the session's context: any model, optional read-only tools, an ongoing side thread, cache-aware cost warnings, and a hand-off when an answer is worth keeping.

Claude Code

By astrosteveoLicense: MIT0 GitHub starsUpdated 2 weeks ago

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Install aside for Claude Code

Installs for the current user
claude plugin marketplace add IchenDEV/agent-plugin-mkt
claude plugin marketplace update agent-plugin-marketplace
claude plugin install aside@agent-plugin-marketplace

Paste and run these commands in a terminal with Claude Code. They add and refresh the PluginsMP catalog, then install this plugin.

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Get the source manually
git clone https://github.com/astrosteveo/claude-plugins

Clone the source repository, then follow its setup instructions to add the plugin to a compatible client. The plugin root is plugins/aside/.

Plugin files

plugins/aside/
└── .claude-plugin/plugin.json

Plugin manifests1

plugins/aside/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
{
  "$schema": "https://anthropic.com/claude-code/plugin.schema.json",
  "name": "aside",
  "displayName": "Aside",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "description": "Ask Claude for advice in a side pane without touching the session's context: any model, optional read-only tools, an ongoing side thread, cache-aware cost warnings, and a hand-off when an answer is worth keeping.",
  "author": {
    "name": "astrosteveo"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/astrosteveo/claude-plugins/tree/main/plugins/aside",
  "repository": "https://github.com/astrosteveo/claude-plugins",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "mod",
    "advice",
    "side-question",
    "btw",
    "cache",
    "cost"
  ],
  "types": "./types/index.d.ts",
  "userConfig": {
    "model": {
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Default model",
      "description": "Who answers an aside. session: the session's own model, reading the session's prompt cache.",
      "options": [
        "session",
        "fable",
        "opus",
        "sonnet",
        "haiku"
      ],
      "default": "session"
    },
    "tools": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "title": "Read-only tools by default",
      "description": "Let an aside read files, search and run read-only commands before it answers.",
      "default": false
    },
    "confirmSwitch": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "title": "Confirm a pricier model",
      "description": "Hold a question and ask first when the model you picked would cost more than the session's own model reading its cache.",
      "default": true
    },
    "cacheTtl": {
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Session prompt-cache lifetime",
      "description": "How long the session's prompt cache lives. auto reads it from the transcript's last cache write, or learns it from asides when the transcript is too big to read.",
      "options": [
        "auto",
        "5m",
        "1h"
      ],
      "default": "auto"
    },
    "transcriptTokens": {
      "type": "number",
      "title": "Conversation sent to another model, in tokens",
      "description": "The most of the conversation, newest first, that an aside on another model reads.",
      "default": 100000
    },
    "threadTurns": {
      "type": "number",
      "title": "Earlier asides each question carries",
      "description": "How many earlier questions and answers of the side thread a new question carries.",
      "default": 10
    }
  }
}

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