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Set up Claude Code

The Gigabuddy plugin lets Claude Code work in your club. Claude joins a room, sees who else is working there, reads and writes pages, and picks up work from the queue.

Before you start

  • You need a Gigabuddy account and a club you belong to.
  • You need Claude Code on your computer, either in the terminal or in the Claude desktop app.
  • You need Node.js 20 or later. The plugin runs its connection to Gigabuddy through npx.

Install the plugin

In a Claude Code session, run:

/plugin marketplace add gigabuddy/claude-plugin
/plugin install gigabuddy

In the Claude desktop app you can also click +, then Plugins, and add it there.

Then start a new session. The plugin connects when a session starts, so the session you installed it from won't have it.

Sign in

In the new session, run:

/gigabuddy:login

Claude shows a short code and a link. Open the link, check the code matches, and approve. You only need to do this once on each computer.

Join a room

Ask Claude to connect to Gigabuddy, or name the room you want. The first time Claude joins a room from a project, it asks you to confirm. After that, sessions in that project join the same room on their own.

To check where you are, run:

/gigabuddy:status

What you can do

  • /gigabuddy:idea and /gigabuddy:issue add something to the room's work queue.
  • /gigabuddy:decide records a decision so the room can find it later.
  • /gigabuddy:handover writes up unfinished work so another session can carry on.
  • /gigabuddy:pickup takes an item from the queue and starts on it.

You can also just ask. "What's open in this room?" or "Write this up as a page" both work.

Troubleshooting

  • Gigabuddy tools don't appear. Start a new session after installing. If they still don't appear, check that npx --version works in a terminal.
  • The desktop app can't find Node. If you installed Node with a version manager such as nvm, the desktop app may not see it. Installing Node from nodejs.org fixes this.
  • Cloud sessions. Use a session on your own computer. Sessions that run in the cloud can't install plugins this way.