claude-toons

claude-toons

Little animated cartoons of what Claude is doing, drawn under the spinner in
Claude Code while it works. Clawd, the Claude Code mascot, stars in every
scene, and the scene follows the work: tests become a castle siege, a bug hunt
becomes a safari, a long build becomes a rocket on the pad.

An independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic.

What it costs

On default settings, about 1 to 3% on top of what Claude Code already uses.

Most scenes come from a library of 138 ready-made scenes that ship with the
plugin and cost nothing. A model is asked to draw a fresh scene only when you
start a task or something fails, and at most once a minute. Each of those
costs about 2 to 4 cents at API prices.

The range depends on how you work. Long tasks land near 1%, because one fresh
scene covers minutes of Claude's work. Rapid short back-and-forth lands near
3%, because nearly every message starts a task. These figures assume Claude
Code itself runs on Opus. On a cheaper model the share is larger.

The requests use your Claude Code login and nothing else. On a subscription
they count toward your plan's usage limits like any other Claude use. On an
API key they're billed to that key. Nothing is spent while Claude is idle or
the cartoons are hidden.

The "Scenes" setting picks where scenes come from:

/toons settings shows what the cartoons have actually cost you, next to
what Claude's own work costs, once there's enough to measure.

Install

You need Claude Code with plugin hook modules, an early-access feature. This
was built on version 2.1.287.

1. Clone the repo:

2. Try it for one session:

   Give Claude any task. The cartoons appear under the spinner while it works.

3. To load it in every session, add the folder to the env block of
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