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Cc Stretch — Development skill for Claude Code

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Stretchtext replies for Claude Code: short by default, each phrase grows in place when you click it.

How to install Cc Stretch

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open pro-vi/cc-stretch and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Cc Stretch does

Stretchtext replies for Claude Code: short by default, each phrase grows in place when you click it.

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README

cc-stretch

**Claude writes a lot. Now you can read a little.**

![A reply in Claude Code growing in place as phrases are clicked](docs/stretch.gif)

Replies arrive short. Click a linked phrase and it grows right where it stands. Click `«` and it shrinks back. Claude is told which parts you opened, so it doesn't assume you read the rest.

Install

In a Claude Code session:

/plugin install cc-stretch --marketplace pro-vi/cc-stretch
/tui fullscreen

In the terminal, clicks need Claude Code's fullscreen renderer. `/tui fullscreen` switches to it, restarting and resuming your session. Without it, Claude Code prints replies to the terminal's main screen, where they cannot change, so every stretch shows open. As of Claude Code 2.1.300, some setups start on the main screen even with fullscreen set: `tmux -CC`, SSH from Windows, or a machine where a fullscreen start crashed. Start Claude Code with `CLAUDE_CODE_NO_FLICKER=1` to force fullscreen there. In the Claude desktop app stretches are links: click one to open it in place, click `«` to close it. No setting needed.

What to expect

You read about a sixth of what Claude writes. Across 69 real replies from four of my coding projects, the version you see before clicking was 17% of the words Claude wrote without the plugin. It carries about two of every three most important points; the rest is one click away. My replies run long, so if yours are short you will save less. How this was measured, and how to run it on your own transcripts: [`bench/`](bench/README.md).

A silly plugin about a serious idea

In 1967 Ted Nelson described **stretchtext**: text that "stretches, becoming longer, with replacement phrases, new details and additional clauses popping into place", and shrinks back on demand, while "the reader remains oriented" (*Hypertext Note 8*). In 1970 he put it like this: "Gaps appear between phrases; new words and phrases pop into the gaps, an item at a time."

It never caught on. The hard part, as