Build your first PLASMA application

From zero to a living, evolving app in five minutes. No code to write, no IDE to open. Just a conversation with Claude.

Install PLASMA

PLASMA has three components to install: the PLASMA Connector MCPB (the bridge between Claude and your desktop), the PLASMA Surface OSX App (the rendering window where your apps come to life), and the PLASMA Plugin, a set of instructions that helps Claude use PLASMA capabilities in the most effective way.

Adding the PLASMA Connector MCPB to Claude Desktop. This enables Claude to create and control visual applications.

The PLASMA Plugin gives Claude the knowledge to build, mutate, and evolve your applications.

The PLASMA Surface lives in the menu bar. Your applications render in a dedicated window, separate from the chat.

Start PLASMA

/plasma:start

The /plasma:start command verifies that both the PLASMA Connector and the PLASMA Surface are connected and ready.

Use Cases & Ideas

open the excel file,
show data in a clean table,
browse it page by page,
click any cell to edit it,
search across all columns,
and download the updated file,
wait for events

The user asks for inline editing. Claude mutates the organism to add editable cells, validation, and a change tracker.

Claude reads the data shape, generates bar charts, distributions, and trend lines, and exports updated data back to Excel. All interactive, all from conversation.

PLASMA can generate virtually anything a browser can render, from data tools to creative experiments. Here are two examples of what emerges when you give Claude a surface and a prompt.

create a colorful 3D fractal environment on the plasma surface.
i want a mandelbulb rendered in real-time using raymarching with webgl.
the camera should orbit slowly around the structure.
colors should be vivid and cyclic (cosmic rainbow style),
and the fractal geometry should morph over time.
add three interactive sliders to control complexity (iterations),
animation speed, and color palette.
mouse movement should rotate the camera viewpoint.
dark background with stars and a luminous halo around the fractal.
clear colors, wait for events

i want a drag-and-drop workflow builder for AI agents.
think of it like a flowchart where each node is an agent
with its own prompt and model.
i should be able to add nodes, connect them by clicking
from one to another, delete them,
and see the full pipeline as JSON.
when i hit execute, send the workflow back to you to execute it.
wait for events

Ask Claude to build an environment for designing agentic configurations intuitively. It does it in under a minute. You draw your agentic architecture on the surface, Claude sees it, understands it, and executes it.

The researcher asks to compare against the control cohort. Claude overlays population frequencies, surfaces statistically significant variants, identifies compound heterozygotes in DNA repair genes, and renders a pathway diagram showing where each variant hits in the damage response network.

The complete analysis workspace: annotation, filtering, population comparison, and pathway mapping, all built interactively as the scientific question evolves.

Every PLASMA creation is automatically saved as an organism and can be reloaded instantly, without waiting for regeneration. All the changes you request through conversation (mutations) are saved incrementally and reapplied automatically when the organism is loaded again.

To see all your saved apps, just ask:

list my plasma apps

To reload a specific one:

load the plasma app excel_navigator

The organism loads in seconds with its full mutation history applied, exactly as you left it.

Depending on complexity, the initial generation can take anywhere from tens of seconds to a few minutes. The model that currently works best is Claude Opus, but many apps work beautifully with Sonnet, and simpler ones run well even with Haiku.

What you can build

PLASMA runs anything a browser can run. Some things people have built:

• Data entry forms with validation and database integration
• Real-time dashboards with Chart.js and D3.js
• 3D visualizations with Three.js and WebGL
• Generative art canvases with fragment shaders
• Interactive data explorers (SQL query → visual result)
• Landing pages and web applications
• Games and simulations
• Monitoring panels with live data feeds

Next steps

• Install PLASMA Claude Components
• Read the full article on how PLASMA works under the hood
• Hera Artificial Life, the multi-channel AI gateway with native PLASMA integration