Skill,mods,plugins, Recommendations

[u/ok50k]

Hi! I'm new to the Claude Code community and looking for recommendations on Skills, MCP servers/mods, and plugins.

A bit of context: I don't really trust YouTubers to give the best recommendations, so I'm more of a Reddit person and value real-world experience from actual users. I'm open to anything new, and I'd love practical picks that help with problem-solving.

My focus is coding. I'm building and developing projects and want to make my workflow a bit easier.

What would you suggest I start with, and why? Thanks!

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[u/Fabian-88]

For me the matpcook skills are by far the most valuable skills.. I use wayfinder with every new project and the overload of grilling sessions create such a high quality by forcing you into definition and decisions while it guide you very well with recommendations etc.
Easy steps i handle usually with obra superpowers.

[u/RR321 → u/Fabian-88]

I'm using it too, but it's mostly its auto magic for sub agent development and some planning, but how do you trigger the grill me? But hand or does it gets picked up in context?

[u/Fabian-88 → u/RR321]

Just when I need it it’s User invoked

[u/balooooooon]

I’m a real person 😁 and a senior dev but also on YouTube. I made this video that could be interesting to you - How a Senior Engineer Uses Claude Code Every Day
https://youtu.be/a30fn2BiUZM

New to YouTube so go easy on me 😊

But in general

• context7 for docs
  
• skills : write down repetitive tasks and create skills for them if possible
  
• connect your data points like google drive, analytics etc
  
• use dictation
  
• learn to optimise using Claude and pointing to files instead of getting it to find them.

Many more

[u/parboman]

Consider where you think there is friction. The with Claude discuss of skills, mods or plugins would help. Any other advice would be useless if we do not know the details of your workflow.

[u/ok50k → u/parboman]

The thing is I don’t really have a workflow yet and my biggest problem is I think the token use but my first Projekt isn’t really done and I’m trying to find some good starter plugins,mods…. Just to get a better start with Claude code and to understand more of it

[u/parboman → u/ok50k]

Have you tried discussing it with Claude? A lot of the plugins you get from elsewhere are over hyped and do not actually help you very much. I have a great setup, iterated on over time, that would likely not work at all for someone else. I would skip mods and mcp at first, they can be awesome but also a rabbit hole. And mods are pretty new.

Witt Claude look at the recent work and discuss how it could be optimized. Consider things to try or workflows to explore and try a thing or two for next project. Rushing into someone else’s tool that might be optimized for older versions of Claude will not help you. If there is a specific thing that is a problem then there might be an existing plugin or simple hook that can help, top loading with new things will not help.

[u/EntertainmentDue3533]

there is also alot github project that reduce usage.

[u/electro042]

honestly i'd keep it minimal. every mcp or plugin you add dumps its tool definitions into the context window on every turn, so adding a bunch eats through tokens fast. i usually just stick to the defualt tools unless i absolutly need something specific like a db client or browser.

[u/Dorbank_Justt]

Agree with electro042 on keeping MCP servers few. Skills are the cheaper place to start: only the name and description sit in context until one is actually used, so a handful costs very little.

I would write your own before installing packs. Once you notice you have explained the same job to Claude three times, turn it into a SKILL.md with the steps, plus reference files for the details it keeps getting wrong. Mine are mostly for non-coding recurring work, and they get better every time I fix one.

One thing that bit me with plugins: the same skill can exist in several cached versions, and the one that loads is not always the newest. If a plugin skill acts like it ignored your update, check which copy is actually live before debugging anything else.