intermission

intermission

A Claude Code plugin that drops you into Doom deathmatch while Claude works, and hands you back when it's done.

When Claude has been working for two seconds, a pane opens beside the
transcript and you drop into a free-for-all on a shared server with everyone
else who is waiting on Claude. When Claude finishes there's a three-second
countdown and you're handed back. If Claude needs you, say for a permission
prompt, you're handed back at once and dropped in again after you answer.

It's Odamex with Freedoom's
maps, with monsters left in so the server is never empty.

Install

1. Install the plugin:

2. Turn it on:

   The first time, it downloads the game, about 20 MB.

To turn it off again, run /intermission off.

Requirements

- macOS 15 or later, on Apple silicon or Intel, in
  Ghostty or kitty,
  the terminals that can show the game's pixels
- or Windows 10 or 11 on x64, in Rio, set up as
  below, with the
  Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable
- Claude Code 2.1.287 or later

On Windows

Rio is the one terminal on Windows that can show the game's pixels. Set it up
once, before installing intermission:

1. Install Rio. Through winget it brings the Visual C++ Redistributable the
   game needs too:

   If you install Rio some other way, add the Redistributable with
   winget install Microsoft.VCRedist.2015+.x64.

2. Give Rio ConPTY 1.22 or newer, which it needs to pass pictures through, as
   Rio's guide describes. In
   PowerShell run as administrator, copy conpty.dll and OpenConsole.exe
   from Microsoft's
   ConPTY package
   next to rio.exe:

   Both files must be there: with conpty.dll alone, Rio falls back to the
   console host built into Windows, which strips the pictures out.

3. Claude Code sends pictures only to terminals it recognizes, and Rio…