Claude Code mod
crab-buddy
An animated pixel-art Claude crab above your prompt that acts out what Claude Code is doing: thinking, reading, building (ten scenes), testing, debugging, web, subagents, git, installs, long turns, compacting, idle, dozing and night owl. 25 moods, 110 takes, each a 14 s scene with beats and emotes; it walks a stage in the desktop app and draws in block characters in the terminal. A caption of one-liners scrolls beside it; each look holds 8 s, so nothing flashes. Light and dark themes, reduce-motion aware. 0 tokens.
Install
/plugin marketplace add pvjbuilds/crab-buddy
/plugin install crab-buddy@crab-buddyMods install like plugins. Run /reload-plugins or start a new session to load it.
What it can access
- Reach
- L1Reads: reads mod state, draws
- Sees
- every tool call, classic hooks, compaction
- Draws in
AbovePrompt- Hooks
session.startturn.startturn.completetool.callclassic.PermissionRequestsession.compactclassic.PreCompactui.statusui.render
From a static scan of the mod's code by awesome-claude-code-mods. It shows what the code asks for, not a security review.
How Claude Code mods work
- A mod is a plugin with a JavaScript or TypeScript module that runs inside Claude Code (version 2.1.287 or later). It can draw panes beside the transcript, a band above the prompt, buttons and toasts, restyle the spinner and tool rows, and watch or rewrite tool calls and prompts.
- It installs like any plugin: add its marketplace with /plugin marketplace add owner/repo, then /plugin install name@marketplace.
- Check what a mod can reach before installing: it runs with your permissions. Reach goes from drawing only, to reading files, to writing files or running processes, to the network. Run claude plugin validate on a clone to list its hooks and calls without running it.
- Turn one off from the Installed tab in /plugin, or start Claude Code with --safe-mode to skip every customization for a session.
Details
- Repository
- pvjbuilds/crab-buddy
- Folder
.- Marketplace
crab-buddy- Author
- Praj
- License
- MIT
- Last updated
- 21 October 2026
- Listed in
- awesome-claude-code-mods
FAQ
What is crab-buddy?
An animated pixel-art Claude crab above your prompt that acts out what Claude Code is doing: thinking, reading, building (ten scenes), testing, debugging, web, subagents, git, installs, long turns, compacting, idle, dozing and night owl. 25 moods, 110 takes, each a 14 s scene with beats and emotes; it walks a stage in the desktop app and draws in block characters in the terminal. A caption of one-liners scrolls beside it; each look holds 8 s, so nothing flashes. Light and dark themes, reduce-motion aware. 0 tokens. It is a mod for Claude Code, from pvjbuilds/crab-buddy on GitHub.
What can the crab-buddy mod access?
Its widest reach is "reads" (reads mod state, draws). It sees every tool call, classic hooks, compaction. It draws in AbovePrompt. Like any mod, it runs with your permissions.
How do I install crab-buddy?
Inside Claude Code (v2.1.287 or later), run /plugin marketplace add pvjbuilds/crab-buddy and then /plugin install crab-buddy@crab-buddy.
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