Introduction

CLACOROO is a desktop control room for Claude Code. You manage plugins, marketplaces, skills, agents, MCP servers and hooks through a native UI instead of typing CLI commands — and every change stays on your machine.

The name stands for CLAude COde COntrol ROOm (the middle “CO” is shared between Code and Control).

What it does

CLACOROO reads the same files Claude Code reads — ~/.claude/ on macOS and Linux, %APPDATA%\Claude\ on Windows — and shows them as a real app. You navigate the 9 main sections from the sidebar:

Section	What you do there
Dashboard	Live overview: token quota, KPI, recent activity, quote and usage
Marketplaces	Add, browse, update and remove plugin marketplaces
Plugins	Enable, disable, update, uninstall plugins; filter and search
Skills	Catalog of skills bundled by your plugins, with inline preview
Agents	Catalog of agents bundled by your plugins, with quick-launch commands
MCP servers	Add, remove, monitor Model Context Protocol servers (status, transport, auth)
Hooks	All hooks grouped by event, with their plugin source and CLI dependencies
Stats	Usage history: sessions, tokens, models, per-project breakdown
Claude Config	Visual editor for settings.json (model, theme, language, and more)

A separate panel handles your Claude account (claude.ai login, current usage, logout) and an optional Anthropic API key.

Why it exists

Claude Code is powerful, but a lot of its day-to-day is buried in CLI commands and JSON files:

claude plugins list
claude plugins update my-plugin@my-marketplace
claude plugins remove other-plugin@other-marketplace
claude mcp list
claude mcp add --transport http my-server https://...

If you’ve ever forgotten the exact form of claude plugins enable plugin@marketplace, opened ~/.claude/settings.json to fix something, or pieced together which hook belongs to which plugin — CLACOROO is for you.

The CLI is still there. CLACOROO sits on top of it: for every action that mutates state (enable, disable, update, install, remove, add MCP, …) it runs the same claude command you would have typed, so your setup never drifts from what the CLI sees.

What you can do

• Enable, disable, update, install and remove plugins with one click — all via the official CLI under the hood
• Add and remove marketplaces by Git URL, GitHub repo, or local path
• Browse skills and agents with inline Markdown preview
• Monitor MCP servers at a glance (Connected · Needs Auth · Error · Warning)
• See every hook grouped by event, with its plugin and CLI dependencies
• Track usage locally: sessions, tokens, models, per-project breakdown — no remote API calls
• Edit settings.json visually instead of hand-writing JSON
• Open a built-in terminal for the CLI commands you still want to type

The app updates itself as files change on disk, so changes you make from the CLI in another window show up automatically.

What it isn’t

To set expectations clearly, CLACOROO is not:

• Not a fork or replacement of Claude Code. It needs Claude Code installed and reachable in your PATH.
• Not a cloud service. All your data — configuration, stats, sessions — stays on your machine. CLACOROO makes no telemetry calls.
• Not affiliated with Anthropic. CLACOROO is an independent third-party tool, not sponsored, endorsed or approved by Anthropic, PBC.
• Not a writer of arbitrary files. Plugin mutations go through claude plugins ...; the only file CLACOROO writes directly is settings.json (atomically), and it never overwrites your OAuth credentials.

Supported platforms

CLACOROO ships native installers for the three desktops:

• macOS — .dmg for Apple Silicon and Intel
• Windows — NSIS installer (x64 + arm64) and a portable build (x64)
• Linux — .AppImage, .deb, and .rpm

You need Claude Code installed and reachable from your shell PATH, plus Node.js 18 or later (CLACOROO uses it to invoke the CLI on your behalf).

Languages

CLACOROO is bilingual out of the box: it auto-detects your operating system language and starts in English or Italian. You can change it live from Settings · Language, and switch back at any time. The documentation you’re reading follows the same lock-step: every page has both an English and an Italian version, kept in sync with each release.

Open source and license

CLACOROO is free, open source, and AGPL-3.0-or-later licensed. The full source lives on GitHub. The AGPL choice is deliberate: it lets anyone use, study, modify and redistribute the app, while requiring that hosted/forked derivatives publish their source too. If you need different terms for a specific use, contact the author.

Next steps

• Install CLACOROO — pick your platform, download the installer, open it for the first time
• Quick start — a guided 5-minute tour from first launch to your first managed plugin
• Concepts — what plugins, marketplaces, skills, agents, MCP servers and hooks actually are, and how they relate