sideshow

A connection between the Sideshow browser-comment tool and Claude Code. It sends browser comments as notifications and lets the agent publish snippets through MCP, a standard way for tools to exchange data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Receiving Sideshow comments in Claude Code and publishing code or text snippets to a Sideshow server.
Why use it?
It brings visual or browser-based feedback into the coding session instead of making you transfer comments manually.

Plugin for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add modem-dev/sideshow
agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/modem-dev/sideshow/plugin
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/modem-dev/sideshow

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

sideshow scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 42 lines

What it actually says

{
  "$schema": "https://json.schemastore.org/claude-code-plugin-manifest.json",
  "name": "sideshow",
  "displayName": "sideshow",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "description": "Stream sideshow browser comments to Claude Code as notifications, and publish snippets over MCP.",
  "author": { "name": "modem", "email": "[email protected]" },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/modem-dev/sideshow",
  "repository": "https://github.com/modem-dev/sideshow",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": ["sideshow", "visualization", "feedback", "mcp"],
  "skills": "./skills/",
  "mcpServers": {
    "sideshow": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "sideshow", "mcp"],
      "env": {
        "SIDESHOW_URL": "${user_config.sideshowUrl}",
        "SIDESHOW_TOKEN": "${user_config.apiToken}"
      }
    }
  },
  "experimental": {
    "monitors": "./monitors.json"
  },
  "userConfig": {
    "sideshowUrl": {
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Sideshow URL",
      "description": "Base URL of your sideshow server. Local default is http://localhost:8228; set your deployed instance (e.g. https://sideshow.you.workers.dev) otherwise.",
      "default": "http://localhost:8228",
      "required": true
    },
    "apiToken": {
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Sideshow token",
      "description": "Bearer token for a deployed sideshow instance. Leave blank for a local server.",
      "sensitive": true
    }
  }
}
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 42 lines scan A 295232117874

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sideshow is a plugin published in the GitHub repository modem-dev/sideshow (567 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.