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Dancing Clawd — Development skill for Claude Code

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Claude Code hook + terminal renderer: your sessions dance in the terminal.

How to install Dancing Clawd

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open almightychang/dancing-clawd and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Dancing Clawd does

Claude Code hook + terminal renderer: your sessions dance in the terminal.

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README

dancing-clawd

![demo](demo.gif)

A tiny toy that turns Claude Code hook events into dancing mascots in your terminal. Each session spawns one Claude that random-walks the screen, tinted by its current mood (idle / working / tool running / error / needs-you / done). Subagents spawn their own dancers, and speech bubbles float above the most recently active session.

Requirements

Python 3 (standard library only — no pip install needed)
Claude Code with a ~/.claude/settings.json
A terminal that supports 256-color ANSI and half-block glyphs (▀, ▄)

Install

git clone https://github.com/almightychang/dancing-clawd.git
cd dancing-clawd
./install.sh

The installer:

Copies hook.py, dance.py, and mascot_frames.py into ~/.claude/dancing-claude/.
Backs up ~/.claude/settings.json as settings.json.bak. before any change.
Wires six Claude Code hooks (UserPromptSubmit, PreToolUse, PostToolUse, Notification, Stop, SubagentStop) to run hook.py. Existing hook entries from other tools are preserved.

Run

Open a spare terminal and start the renderer:

python3 ~/.claude/dancing-claude/dance.py

Then use Claude Code as usual in another terminal. Mascots appear and react as hook events fire. Stop with `Ctrl-C` — the terminal state is restored on exit.

Uninstall

./install.sh --uninstall

Removes only the dancing-clawd hook entries from `settings.json` (other hooks are untouched) and creates a backup first. The installed files under `~/.claude/dancing-claude/` are left in place — delete them manually if you want them gone:

rm -rf ~/.claude/dancing-claude

How it works

hook.py — invoked by Claude Code on every hook event. Reads the event JSON from stdin, updates a per-session entry inside ~/.claude/dancing-claude/state.json, and exits. Multiple concurrent sessions are serialized via flock on state.lock.
dance.py — a standalone rende