dry-codes

Dry Codes — Claude Code & Codex plugin

Reuse before you write. This plugin gives a coding agent a skill that searches Dry Codes for existing code and docs to reuse — so it looks for an existing implementation before writing a new one.

It bundles two things:

• The dry-codes skill — tells the agent to search Dry Codes before implementing, reuse matches, and check for near-duplicates.
• The hosted MCP server — https://dry.codes/mcp. On first use you sign in (GitHub OAuth) and pick which corpus to search: one of your own endpoints, or the public corpus (every repo listed publicly on Dry Codes). To switch later, reconnect and pick another.

Install — Claude Code

/plugin marketplace add quotentiroler/dry-codes-plugin
/plugin install dry-codes@quotentiroler

Then restart Claude Code (or /reload-plugins). Try it locally first with claude --plugin-dir ./dry-codes.

Install — Codex

Two steps: register the marketplace, then install the plugin from it.

codex plugin marketplace add quotentiroler/dry-codes-plugin
codex plugin add dry-codes@quotentiroler

marketplace add only registers the source; plugin add is what installs the plugin (dry-codes@quotentiroler = the dry-codes plugin from the quotentiroler marketplace — run codex plugin list if you need the exact selector). Prefer the UI? Skip the second command, open Codex's plugin directory, choose the Dry Codes marketplace, and install dry-codes.

Codex reads .agents/plugins/marketplace.json from the repo; the bundled skill goes into Codex and the dry-codes MCP server is configured automatically. Restart Codex after installing.

Which corpus does it search?

On the first connection Dry Codes shows a picker:

• Your own endpoints — your indexed repositories (and Pro features like semantic_search), grouped by account/team. Manage them at https://dry.codes.
• Public corpus — every repo listed publicly on Dry Codes (read-only).

The choice is bound to that connection. To search a different endpoint, reconnect and pick another (or add a second MCP server for a specific endpoint URL from the dashboard).

Layout

This one repo is both a Claude Code marketplace and a Codex marketplace, sharing one skill + the same OAuth MCP URL:

.claude-plugin/marketplace.json     # Claude Code marketplace
.agents/plugins/marketplace.json    # Codex marketplace
dry-codes/                          # the plugin
├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json      # Claude Code manifest
├── .codex-plugin/plugin.json       # Codex manifest
├── .mcp.json                       # Claude: { mcpServers: { dry-codes: { type: http, url } } }
├── .mcp.codex.json                 # Codex:  { mcp_servers: { dry-codes: { url } } }
└── skills/dry-codes/SKILL.md       # the reuse-before-you-write skill (shared)

Learn more: https://dry.codes