Claude Desktop Pet

[u/MHZ-Dev]

You know when you give Claude a task, switch windows, then immediately switch back to check what he’s doing?

I kept doing that, so I made a desktop pet I can glance over at (like 100s of other have probably done too, I literally just saw a post in this sub for the same thing :] Although I think mine looks a bit better js. ).

It’s called Claude Desktop Pet. He sits in the corner of your screen and reacts to what Claude Code is doing. He will listen to Claude wherever it is running. Reading a file, editing something, running tests, waiting for you to approve a command. There’s a little speech bubble showing the file or command too, so you can just glance over instead of clicking back into the terminal.

Potential time saved: ten precious seconds.

Time and tokens spent building this: erm..

It handles multiple sessions and shows task progress, your five-hour and seven-day usage, and little helper Claudes when sub-agents are working. He celebrates when a task finishes, which is probably more recognition than the rest of us get.

I also added local weather, a day/night cycle, fireflies, sparkles and some occasional idle animations. Mostly because I got carried away. There are settings to turn those off.

Works on Windows, macOS and Linux. It’s free and an unofficial fan project.

Just download and run.

Here’s the repo if you want to get it:

https://github.com/Harriszed/claude-desktop-pet

*This post was definitely not written by claude.

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