Claude Code plugin
Two commands give Claude Code full access to your Everythings workspaces — and /things, a live panel that follows along while an agent builds things for you.
Install
In a terminal (or with /plugin inside Claude Code):
claude plugin marketplace add bbabkin/everythings-claude
claude plugin install everythings@everythings-claude
You'll need an Everythings account (the free plan works). On first use, Claude Code opens the Everythings sign-in — approve read-only or read & write access; no token to copy. The plugin's source lives at github.com/bbabkin/everythings-claude.
What you get
Your things, in every project
Claude can search, read, and (with write access) create, edit, and organize your workspaces and things from any session — capture ideas mid-task, pull up your lists, save results where they outlive the conversation. Deletes only ever go to Trash; an agent can never permanently destroy your data.
/things — your live panel
One command publishes your private panel: a claude.ai page showing your workspaces as the app does — floating emoji tiles, Markdown content, marks, and comments, refreshing on its own. Read-only by design.
Follow mode
On from the moment the panel opens: every thing an agent creates or updates opens on screen as it happens, breadcrumbs and workspace switches included. Ask for a trip plan and watch it assemble itself; the radar toggle turns following off.
Set up the panel
The panel reads your data through a claude.ai connector (one-time setup):
- 1. In claude.ai, open Settings → Connectors, find Everythings in the connector directory, and click Connect. On builds without the directory, choose Add custom connector and paste:
https://www.everythings.app/api/mcp
- 2. Sign in to Everythings when prompted (keep the connector named Everythings).
- 3. In Claude Code, run
/things— your panel opens in the side panel and keeps its address from then on.
Things to try
“Plan a trip to Spain in my Everythings”
The agent creates a Spain thing with nested Tickets, Hotels, and Itinerary things and fills each with research. With the panel's follow mode armed, each thing opens on screen as the agent writes it.
“Add milk and eggs to my groceries thing”
The agent finds your Groceries thing by name and appends the items to its list, from any project, mid-task.
“What's on my reading list?”
The agent searches your things, reads the right one, and answers inline — no app switch.
“Save a summary of this session's decisions into my project workspace”
The agent writes a new thing capturing the outcome, so the knowledge outlives the conversation.
“/things”
Your live panel opens in the claude.ai side panel: workspaces, things, content, marks, and comments, refreshing as data changes.
Questions
What exactly gets installed?
Two pieces. First, the Everythings MCP server is wired into every Claude Code project, so the agent has workspace and thing tools wherever you work. Second, the /things skill: it publishes your personal panel page as a private claude.ai artifact and reopens it on demand.
Is the panel shared? Where does it live?
The panel is a private artifact on your own claude.ai account, reading your data through your own Everythings connector. Every user publishes their own copy; nothing is shared unless you explicitly share it.
How live is the panel?
It refreshes on a ~30 second poll — the connector platform's floor. Follow mode opens things within half a minute of an agent writing them, which keeps pace with an agent that researches as it goes.
Can the panel change my data?
No. The panel is read-only and requests only read tools. Writing (creating things, marks, comments) happens through the agent's MCP tools, which you grant separately at sign-in, or in the app itself.
Does this work in Claude Cowork?
The tools do: a Cowork agent can research and file everything into your workspaces. Publishing the panel itself needs Claude Code (CLI or web) or claude.ai, so run /things once there. Then keep the panel open in a browser beside Cowork — with follow mode armed it opens each thing as the Cowork agent writes it, because the panel follows your data rather than any one session.
How do updates arrive?
Plugin updates come through the marketplace like any Claude Code plugin. After an update, the next /things republishes the newer panel to your same private URL.
How do I revoke access?
Uninstall the plugin in Claude Code, and revoke the agent's access under Settings → MCP Access Tokens in Everythings. The claude.ai connector can be removed in claude.ai Settings → Connectors.
Using Claude on the web, ChatGPT, or Gemini instead? The same server connects everywhere — see Connect AI agents.