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Anthropic just launched mods for Cloud Code and I think it's one of the biggest updates they've shipped in a while.

With mods, Cloud can now build features for itself.

Any feature you wish

Cloud had, you just describe it and it builds it right into Cloud Code.

So in this video, I'll explain what a mod is and how easy it is to build one.

I'll show you the nine best mods to use after analyzing, building and trying out more than a hundred different ones over the last weeks.

And I'll give away all of the mods for free so you can install them for yourself.

Now, if you don't know me yet, I'm Ben, I'm a three -time founder and now run an AI agency

and one of the largest AI communities for professionals and business owners,

where I teach how to use AI to actually automate work or build an AI business.

So what is a mod?

A mod is basically a plugin that changes how

Cloud Code looks and behaves, both in the desktop app or in the terminal.

Now, you can essentially use or build mods that customize how the interface or harness itself looks or behaves,

which is really powerful because it can drastically improve the way you work with AI.

And it's really a reason to consider switching to the Cloud Code tab if you're still used to working in Cloud Cowork.

The easiest way to explain a mod is by giving you an example of the first mod that I built,

which already really improves the way I work with AI, the Brain Dump mod.

Now, many people, including me, do a lot of long voice brain dumps when prompting Cloud.

But these brain dumps often get messy.

Voice transcriptions often contain errors.

They jump around a lot.

They're, of course, very unstructured and sometimes even contradict themselves.

So I build a mod that automatically turns these messy brain dumps into a clear structured prompt before

Cloud even processes it.

And the way a mod works is very simple.

Every time something happens in Cloud Code, it sends out a signal.

For example, when you send a prompt, when Cloud is about to use a tool, when a sub -agent starts, or when Cloud finishes a reply.

A mod just listens for one of those signals and can then do something when that signal fires.

So my brain dump mod listens for the moment I send a prompt.

It then automatically checks if what I just sent is a long, massive brain dump.

And if it is, it blocks it.

So the prompt is held back before Claude gets it.

And then in this case, it uses another AI model in the background to ask me a few clarifying questions about my brain dump

and then turns that into a clear prompt according to Entropic's best practice prompting framework, covering the task, the why,

the guardrails, and what done looks like.

Cloud can then process that clear prompt instead of my messy brain dump.

So that's really what a mod is.

You make it listen for a signal and it can then watch, change or block what happens.

And with those few building blocks, you can build almost any feature you want.

And making mods yourself is really easy.

You just describe what you want and Cloud builds it.

In this case, I said something like build me a mod that catches my long voice brain dumps,

ask me a few clarifying questions and then rewrite the prompt into my prompting framework.

Claude then uses its built -in skill called plugin authoring to build the mod for you.

And if something doesn't work the way you want, you just tell Claude what to change, just like with a skill.

Now, finally, there are basically two types of mods.

Ones that use AI, like this one, which uses your plan's usage, just like a normal message,

and ones that only track or show things on screen, which cost nothing to run.

Now, all of the mods

that I'll show in this video will be in a zip

file in the free resources in the first link in the description below, which you can just throw into a Claude chat

and say install these mods for me and Claude will then add them to your own account.

Now the second mod is one of my favorites and it's called helper desk.

In short it shows you exactly what your sub -agents are doing while Claude works.

If you've been using newer models like Opus 5 .5 you know they use a lot of sub -agents.

For example every time I ask Claude to help me ideate on a new video

it spins up a bunch of sub -agents to do the research.

Now this is generally good because Claude can analyze more things faster

and keep the main chat clean

but the problem with this is there's no real way to see what each subagent is doing,

how much it's spending, or how far along it is.

So you just sit there not knowing if it will take another 5, 10, or 15 minutes.

So this mod fixes that in two ways.

First, it'll give you a purple taskbar right above your prompt box

that fills up every time a to -do gets ticked off, so you see how far along the whole job is,

and which step it's on right now.

And second, you get a side panel where every subagent gets its own little cloth crap, with its own color, its own progress bar,

and what it's costing you.

So you can see exactly which one is slowing things down

and how they add up to the total cost of your chat.

Now this mod just watches every time

Cloud starts a sub -agent or ticks off a to -do and then changes what

Cloud code shows on screen by drawing the taskbar and the side panel.

So it doesn't use any AI to do that.

So it costs nothing to run.

And because it's a mod, you can ask

Cloud to change how it looks, for example, to give each sub -agent a name that matches its role.

Now credit to Johnny Savvy's a progress mod for this one, which I used as inspiration, but I rebuilt this mod for my own workflow.

Now the next mod has made a real difference to my token spend and it's called cash plot.

In short, it tells you exactly when an old chat is about to get expensive and can keep it cheap for you.

Now, if you use plot a lot, you probably have a few long chats you keep coming back to,

for example, after lunch or the next morning.

But what most people don't know is that coming back to an old chat can cost you far more than you think.

And that's because of something called the cash every time you send a message Claude rereads your entire chat.

And to make that cheaper, Entropic saves a copy of your chat on its own servers after every reply,

which is called the cache or keeping your chat warm.

And while the chat is warm, Claude just reads that saved copy for a fraction of the normal price.

On Opus 5 .5, only a 20th of that normal price.

But that saved copy only lives there for a limited amount of time.

And once that timer runs out, the chat or cache goes cold,

which means that saved copy is gone and Claude has to reread and save the whole chat again at full price.

And on a long chat that can make the same message up to 40 times more expensive.

For example, on a long Opus 5 .5 chat, that's about 4 cents warm versus $1 .6 cold every single time you come back.

And that timer is actually very short, one hour on a Claude subscription and only five minutes with an API key.

And the problem is you have no idea when that timer actually runs out.

So the cash clock mod listens for the moment clod finishes its reply

and then shows a countdown until your chat goes cold using the timer straight from entropic's own reply

so it's not a guess and

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if you know you'll come back to the chat later maybe after lunch you just click keep warm

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or type slash keep warm then right before the cache goes cold it sends a small hidden message

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that keeps the entire chat warm so the timer starts again

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that costs only a few cents each time

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which is of course far less than one called restart

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and it stops by itself when you send your next message or after two hours.

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Credits to Karan Bensal for this one whose cash tax mod inspired this one.

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Now the next mod is one that I built myself and it works really well together with cash clock.

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It's called handoff

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and in short it moves your work to a fresh chat

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at the right moment without losing any context from your original chat.

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Now if you work with Claude on bigger projects you know chats can get really long

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and the longer a chat gets the worse the answers get.

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That's because Claude can only hold so much in its short term memory for a single chat, which is also called the context window.

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So the fuller it gets, the harder it is for Claude to keep track of everything so it starts missing details and mixing things up,

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which is also called context rot.

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Now, Claude tries to fix this of course by compacting the chat,

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which basically means it summarizes the older parts to free up space in the chat.

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But a summary always loses some details so the answers still get worse over time.

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And if the cash has gone cold on top of that, every new message will cost you far more too.

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So at some point, you do want to start a fresh chat without losing all of the context

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and progress you've built up, of course.

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But it's hard to know when to actually do that.

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Now, this mod fixes both these problems and it can fire in three different moments.

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First, when your chat hits 250 ,000 tokens, which is sort of the cutoff point for Claude losing a little bit of its performance.

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Second, when the cash clock sees the cash go cold.

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And third, you can just type in slash handoff to trigger it.

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It then reads the whole chat, all the files

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Cloud used or created in the chat, the skills, the tools, and the links it used,

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and then writes a well -structured handoff prompt for the new chat that's much more detailed than the short summary

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Cloud makes when it compacts a chat.

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And you then get a simple button to start a fresh chat with that prompt

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so the new chat knows exactly where you left off with all of the context of the progress in the next steps.

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And because it's just a prompt, you can also use it to hand the task over to someone else on your team

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so they can pick up exactly where you stopped.

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But before I show you the next one, very quickly, if you enjoy this type of content, you'll really enjoy my AI Accelerator,

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where you get access to my 30 -day cloud course

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that takes you from beginner to pro in less than one hour a day.

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A full course on growing an AI business based on everything me

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and my team have learned over the last three years running an AI agency.

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You also get access to unlimited one -on -one live AI consulting with AI experts and a big library of skills,

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templates, and resources across all business departments.

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So definitely check it out in the link in the description below.

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Now, the fifth mod is a really good way to make

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Cloud actually remember your rules and preferences, and it's called Reflect.

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In short, it spots when you give

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Cloud a rule and asks you where you want to save that rule.

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Now, if you use

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Cloud Code, you might know it has auto memory.

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So it saves some things that it thinks are relevant in Cloud's built -in memory

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or if you have a cloud .md or an agents .md

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and maybe a second brain it can save it in there too.

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Now that's generally really good but we don't really control what it saves

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and what it forgets and often it just doesn't save things

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or rules that actually would be great to have in your memory.

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So this mod fixes that by listening to every prompt you send in every chat

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and checking if you just gave cloud a hard rule.

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For example something like never use mdashes or keep LinkedIn hooks under 12 words

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and if it spots one of those hard rules you automatically get a pop -up asking

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if you want to save it to your built -in memory, your Cloud .md, or your second brain if you work with one.

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And if you want your role saved somewhere specific, for example in a skill, you can just ask

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Cloud to change the mod to however you want it to work.

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Now credit to Bayram Anorkov's Cloud Reflect skill that inspired me to build this mod.

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Now the next mod is the one that really helped me move from CoWork to Cloud Code and it's called Chat Inventory.

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Now the reason I did many of my tasks in CoWork instead of Code until recently is because of its UI.

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If you've used CoWork you know its side panel where you see the to -do list, the connectors and skills

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Cloud is using and the files it's reading and creating.

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It's one of the things I like most about CoWork because you always know what

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Cloud is actually doing and the Cloud Code tab just doesn't show you that.

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So especially on longer tasks it feels a little bit like a black box.

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So this mod that I built listens for every tool call, connector call, and skill that

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Cloud uses during a chat and keeps track of them in a side panel called in this chat.

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So just like in cowork, you see the to -do list with the goal at the top,

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every connector Cloud is calling with its logo and how many times it's called, the skills it's using, and the files it's reading and creating.

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For example, when Cloud builds a client report from your CRM, your email, and your drive, you can see exactly where it pulled everything from.

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And because it only keeps track of what's happening and doesn't use any AI, it costs nothing to run.

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Now the 7 mod is really useful for me and it's called a screen share mode.

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In short, it hides private information in your cloud code chats whenever someone else can see your screen.

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Now think about how often your cloud chats can end up on someone else's screen.

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Maybe you share your screen in a team meeting, on a sales call, or during a training,

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or maybe you record videos for social media like me, or quick looms to show a teammate how you did something

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and the moment you do everything in

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that chat is out there client names email addresses deal values even your own personal details

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and most of the time you only notice when it's already too late so

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when you turn this mod on by just typing slash screen share before

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you share your screen it changes what cloud code shows on screen

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so every name email phone number

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and dollar amount turns into a gray bar now for me of course this one's perfect

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because I record a lot of my own chats for these videos

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and before I had to make up fake client names now I just turn on screen share mode

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and use my real chats.

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Now the next mod comes straight from Anthropic and it's called Replay Theater.

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In short it replays every edit Claude made to your file so you can see exactly what changed.

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Now if you do a lot of copywriting

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or design work with Claude you know how many edits a single draft can go through.

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For example you ask Claude to tighten your newsletter draft it makes a dozen changes in one go

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and now you have no idea what it caught or rewrote.

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And until now, the only way to find out was to compare the versions yourself or ask Claude to list every change.

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Now, this mod keeps track of every change Claude makes to your file.

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After Claude's reply, you just type slash replay and it basically plays back all those changes one after the other.

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So you see exactly what Claude changed and you can go back to an earlier version you like better.

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Now, keep in mind, it only works on files.

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So your draft needs to be a document cloud edits, not just text in a chat.

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Now the last mod is another one that I built myself and it becomes really important once you get into mods.

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It's called Switchboard and in short it lets you see and switch off every mod you're running all in one place.

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Now trust me, once you start you'll end up building,

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installing and testing a lot of mods and the same thing will happen that happened with skills for many people.

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People installed hundreds of them and I had no idea which ones were actually on their account, which ones they're using etc.

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And right now there's no quick way in the desktop app to see every mod that's running

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or to switch one off in the middle of a chat.

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So this mod adds one simple command.

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When I type slash mods, it opens a switchboard with every mod that's running right now.

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I can turn each one on or off and hide the extra panels some mods add to my screen.

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So if a mod gets in the way during a task,

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I just switch it off and every new mod I add shows up in this list by itself.

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So I never lose track of what's running.

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Now again, you can download all of the mods for free in the first link in the description below.

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And if you want to get access to my full 30 -day

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Cloud course that takes you from beginner to pro in less than one hour a day, unlimited one -on -one AI consulting,

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a full AI business course, and a community with professionals and business owners actively using AI,

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you can check out my AI accelerator in the link in the description.

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As always, thank you so much for watching.

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And if you enjoyed this video, I highly appreciate a like and a subscribe.

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And if you want to learn more about Cloud Code, you can check out the video here above.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “9 Insane Claude Mods I Already Can't live Without”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: mod, chat, cloud, Claude, code. This video has 223 sentences and 3192 words to shadow. The speech runs for 14:06. The speaker talks fast, about 226 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
cloud noun	/ˈklaʊ̯d/	A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
prompt verb	/pɹɑmpt/	To lead (someone) toward what they should say or do.
mod noun	/mɑd/	An unconventionally modern style of fashionable dress originating in England in the 1960s, characterized by ankle-length black trenchcoats and sunglasses.
dump verb	/dʌmp/	To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
skill noun	/skɪl/	A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate.
timer noun	/ˈtaɪmɚ/	A device used to measure amounts of time.
clock noun	/klɑk/	A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day.
edit verb	/ˈɛdɪt/	To change a text, or a document.
install verb	/ɪnˈstɔl/	To connect, set up or prepare something for use
messy adjective	/ˈmɛsi/	In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.
replay noun	/ˈɹiːpleɪ/	An act or instance of replaying (of playing something, such as a game, again); a replaying of (something).
cache noun	/kæʃ/	Such a store of physical supplies, placed by humans or other animals for practical reasons.
summary noun	/ˈsʌm.ə.ɹi/	An abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.
framework noun	/ˈfɹeɪm.wɜːk/	A support structure comprising joined parts or conglomerated particles and intervening open spaces of similar or larger size.
unlimited adjective	/ʌnˈlɪm.ɪ.tɪd/	Limitless or without bounds; unrestricted.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
check out verb	To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
run out verb	To use up or consume all
add up to verb	To have a particular effect in combination.
come back verb	To return to a place.
end up verb	To bring to a conclusion.
fill up verb	To make (something) completely full.
find out verb	To discover, as by asking or investigating.
give away verb	To make a gift of (something).

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result	if you know you'll come
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	they've shipped · has made · has gone
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	is held · is called · is also called
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	chat, which is · tokens, which is

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 26 contractions and reduced forms, such as doesn't, I'll, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: cache /kæʃ/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, inspiration /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, subscription /səbˈskɹɪpʃən/, fraction /ˈfɹæk.ʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: unlimited /ʌnˈlɪm.ɪ.tɪd/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, inspiration /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, automobile /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/, accelerator /əkˈsɛl.əˌɹeɪ.tɚ/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like cloud, prompt, mod.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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