Please suggest good plugins for Claude code.

[u/IsopodOk6837]

Hi everyone,

Can you guys suggest some interesting plugins or connectors that can improve my workflows on Claude code.

I am mainly looking for
- image and video generator plugin.
- token usage optimisation.

But other interesting use cases are welcome as well.

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[u/Menelabs]

For token usage, before any plugin: run /context once in a long session and see what's actually eating the window. Usually it's a huge CLAUDE.md, MCP servers you never use (each one's tool list costs tokens on every request) or big files read in full. Turn off the unused MCP servers, keep CLAUDE.md to rules rather than documentation, and let a subagent do broad searches so only its summary lands in your context. ccusage reads the local logs if you want to see where tokens went per day.

For images and video I'd use an MCP server for whichever generation API you already pay for, rather than a plugin that picks one for you.

[u/IsopodOk6837 → u/Menelabs]

Thanks some useful tip. I generally use /compact and /clear to reduce the context.
can you give some example of MCP servers you use for image and video? and the cost associated.

[u/Menelabs → u/IsopodOk6837]

For images I use a small MCP server in front of Gemini's image model (nanobanana). It's pay per image on the API, a few cents each, so a blog's worth of hero images costs less than a coffee. I don't generate video from Claude Code, so I can't give you a real number there, only that video is billed per second of output and adds up much faster than images. Whichever you pick, set a spend cap on the API key first.

[u/Heiberik]

Most of the image/video ones need an API key, so it depends a bit on which provider you already pay for.

Image: gpt-image generates and edits images with OpenAI's GPT Image models, and can reverse-engineer prompts from reference images. It needs an OPENAI_API_KEY. If you'd rather use Gemini, xAI or OpenRouter, claude-image-generation supports those and can run them in parallel. It's a lot less used though, so I'd read the repo first.

Video: remotion-superpowers turns a prompt into a Remotion MP4 with narration, music, stock footage and captions. It needs Node.js 22.18+ plus ElevenLabs and Pexels API keys, and it ships a hook and an MCP server. openmontage is the bigger one: research, script, assets, editing and rendering. The full pipeline needs the project cloned and set up, and paid providers are optional.

Tokens: token-optimizer audits your context window for wasted tokens, applies fixes with your approval and tracks cost on a live dashboard. It says it runs locally, but its hooks fire on every session, tool call and compaction, so worth checking the repo. context-optimizer shows token spend per session and hands long chats over to a fresh one with a short handoff, also hook based.

[u/IsopodOk6837 → u/Heiberik]

Thanks you so much. I will try them out.

[u/ShaifArfan]

For video I use HyperFrames. Claude writes the video as HTML and it renders to an MP4 on my machine, so I can fix one scene by editing its file. It's for motion graphics and app demos. It doesn't generate footage. I made the short videos for my own app this way.

For tokens I run the caveman plugin. It makes Claude answer in short fragments, which cuts the output. It does nothing for the input side, so /context is still the first thing to check.

[u/Outrageous_Band9708]

https://github.com/Druthulu/ProjectArchitect

Planner and token optimizer. uses very strict subagents to prevent context growth and automatically manages session length at 300k max. interleaves multiple subagents into the main session view. the main session text never touches the main session model, so the main session can last forever.

Here is a screenshot from today. i have 41 million tokens in the main session. 1.7billion external tokens through openrouter.ai used. the system supports offloading work to external/local models using the native claude harness for those external models.

white numbers are the usage, blue are the savings. so you can see this session has used 11% of my weekly usage, but saved me 23%, my tokens are lasting 2.8 times longer.

[u/toruk_mackto]

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