CC Commander v8.0.0 — "Commander 8"

TL;DR

• 84 plugin skills · 551 total skills · 30 lifecycle hooks × 51 handlers · 20 vendors
• Every prompt rewritten — all plugin skills, the 22 agents and 15 personas, the rules, menus and templates follow one standard, each checked by a fresh-context verifier
• Current models by alias — Claude Fable 5.1 (deep), Opus 5.5 (default), Sonnet 5.5 (fast), Haiku 5.5 (bulk); Codex on GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna
• /ccc-codex — the 84th plugin skill manages the Codex CLI from Claude
• Commander HUD mod, 6 plugin workflows and 8 plugin evals ship in the plugin

This note covers the single v8.0.0 release. For the full per-release history, see CHANGELOG.md in the source repo.

What's New

/ccc-codex — Codex CLI management from Claude

Doctor, models, plugins and marketplaces, MCP servers, subagents (installs the generated TOML agents into ~/.codex/agents/), Codex Cloud tasks, remote control, codex review, codex update, /import guidance and config.toml editing. Every config write asks first, backs up the file and verifies with codex doctor --json.

Commander HUD mod

A Claude Mod that draws a band above the prompt with the Fable Method state, running agents, the session's tool-call budget and an update pill, plus a /ccc-hud command that runs without a model turn. Observe-only: no tool approval, no model calls, no network, and it reads only ~/.claude/commander/. Requires Claude Code 2.1.287+ (Desktop 2.1.286+); elsewhere Commander runs hooks-only.

Plugin workflows

Six dynamic workflows ship as /commander:<name>: ccc-audit, ccc-deep-review, ccc-fleet, ccc-migrate (modernized: pipeline by default, verifiers told to refute, worktree verification fixed) and the new ccc-prompt-audit and ccc-release-audit.

Plugin evals

Eight claude plugin eval cases (hub, plan, review, doctor, fable, update, suggest, codex), runnable with claude plugin eval ./commander/cowork-plugin --case <name> --runs 3.

Seven new hook events

30 events, 51 handlers. PermissionDenied (auto-mode denials reach /ccc-safety), PreModelSwitch and PostModelSwitch (routing telemetry and a tier reminder), TeammateIdle (fleet telemetry), CwdChanged and DirectoryAdded (session state), and FileChanged on CLAUDE.md (a stale-instructions nudge). WorktreeCreate and WorktreeRemove are deliberately not registered: a hook there replaces git worktree handling.

Models

Claude routing by alias: fable (Fable 5.1) deep, opus (Opus 5.5) default, sonnet (Sonnet 5.5) fast, haiku (Haiku 5.5) bulk. The Codex registry is rebuilt on gpt-6-astra (deep), gpt-6.1-sol (default), gpt-6-sol (bounded) and gpt-6-luna (bulk), every id probed live on release day. Agents use aliases; architect and security-auditor run on Fable 5.1.

Every prompt rewritten

Procedure-first, AskUserQuestion pickers, done-when checks, guardrails, no counts or versions in bodies, no stale model names, long tables moved to references/. Each file was checked by a fresh-context verifier against the standard's checklist.

Decks, Codex mirror and orchestration

The decks describe the Artifact tool as it is today; ccc-mission-control and ccc-linear-board sync rows through the artifact database instead of republishing. The Codex mirror emits valid TOML subagents, ships hook timeouts in seconds and maps 12 Codex events. /ccc-orchestrate executes on GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, Codex Cloud or a Sonnet subagent.

Fixed

• ccc-migrate verified the main tree instead of each change's worktree.
• ccc-fleet pipeline mode discarded edits between stages.
• The Codex agent export produced invalid TOML for agent bodies containing a backslash.
• /ccc-doctor rejected agents on current model ids.

Unchanged

• 22 specialist agents · 467 ecosystem skills across 11 CCC domains
• 2 bundled MCP servers + 16 opt-in via /ccc-connect
• Core free forever · MIT licensed · one install, zero config

Install / Update

/plugin install commander --marketplace KevinZai/commander   # new installs (Claude Code 2.1.292+)
claude plugin marketplace update commander-hub && claude plugin update commander   # existing installs

Optional ccc CLI toolkit (the npm install path is retired):

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KevinZai/commander/main/install-remote.sh | bash