Kaeru plugins
Commands you install into Claude Code so a non-technical person can change a website and open a pull request, without ever seeing git.
These are plugins for Claude Code, not the desktop app. Different thing, same idea: someone describes a change in their own words, and the work happens behind a command.
You install them once, then type commands like /kaeru:edit-text in the terminal, inside a project folder.
Which one is this?
The Kaeru desktop app is what the rest of these docs are about — you open a project and talk to it. The plugins here are for people already working in Claude Code, usually alongside a developer who reviews their pull requests.
Two plugins
kaeru — for the person making the change
Change text, images and colours, look at it, check it, and send it for review. Git is hidden, and it never merges anything.
octo — for the developer
Set a repo up, turn issues into pull requests, watch CI, merge, and cut releases.
How a change travels
One change, from the first command to the site being updated. The left column is the person making the change; the right is the developer who reviews it.
the maker the developer
───────────────────────────────────────── ──────────────────────────
/kaeru:setup (once per repo)
/kaeru:start a safe place to work
/kaeru:edit-text say what to change
/kaeru:preview look at it in a browser
/kaeru:check catch your own mistakes
/kaeru:submit ──────────────────────────► reads the pull request
/octo:checks is CI green?
/kaeru:status where has it got to?
/kaeru:fix a check went red /octo:merge lands it
/octo:release ships itNobody on the left ever types a git command, and nothing on the left can merge. That is the whole safety model: the worst a maker can do is open a pull request somebody else has to agree with.
What you need
- Claude Code — claude.com/claude-code
- git and the GitHub CLI (
gh), signed in withgh auth login - Node, and bun or npm — only for the live preview
- Once, for screenshots:
npx playwright install chromium
Setting up a new machine? The plugins repo has a one-command installer for macOS and Windows that does all of the above.