clawd-actor

clawd-actor

A Claude Code mod: while Claude works, Clawd walks onto a little stage above the prompt and
acts out what is going on — the spinner's -ing word (*Sautéing*, *Pondering*, *Herding*…) —
then puts on a show of 32 scenes, a new one every 15 seconds, with little Clawds along for the ride.

*Three scenes at the real frame rate, about 16 s in all (a real turn changes scene every 15 s). Every frame is the mod's own output, rendered by tools/.*

What it does

- Acts out the spinner word. 32 scenes, matched by word stem, so *Flambéing* cooks and
  *Dilly-dallying* strolls. A word it does not know falls back to what the turn is doing
  (typing for tool use, talking while responding, thinking otherwise).
- Acts out the running tool when one is already running as a turn opens; it picks the
  opening scene instead of the word: Bash types, Read/Grep/Glob think, Edit/Write sketch, Agent herds sheep,
  Web* checks the weather, TodoWrite/Skill juggles, MCP tools cast spells, anything else is
  hammered at the forge.
- Changes scene every 15 seconds on long turns, whatever tools run, in an order shuffled per
  session that picks up where the last turn stopped, never the same scene twice in a row. A scene
  is picked when its act begins and holds for the whole act; nothing cuts it short.
- Wanders the stage. When all it carries is a thought bubble, notes or sparks, Clawd strolls
  left and right, swinging arms and legs, hopping at each turn and landing with a squash. By a pot,
  an oven, an anvil or a plant it stays put and works; the stage follows the terminal width (up to
  60 columns). At the blackboard the board stays put and Clawd steps back to admire its work. By the
  campfire it sits still with a purple friend, and only the fire and their eyes move. Under the
  disco…