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Clawd Touchbar — Development skill for Claude Code

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An animated Clawd mascot that lives on your MacBook Pro Touch Bar and reacts to Claude Code hook events.

How to install Clawd Touchbar

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

What Clawd Touchbar does

An animated Clawd mascot that lives on your MacBook Pro Touch Bar and reacts to Claude Code hook events.

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README

clawd-touchbar

A small animated mascot that lives on your Touch Bar and reacts to Claude Code.

![demo](assets/demo.gif)

Bring your old MacBook Pro's Touch Bar back to life. Clawd wakes when you start a session, thinks while Claude is reasoning, works while tools run, celebrates when they finish, and goes to sleep when the conversation ends.

What is this?

A love letter to a piece of hardware Apple gave up on. If you have a 2016 to 2021 MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar, you've spent years watching it sit unused. Now it has a job: showing you the live state of your Claude Code session as an animated friend.

No menu bar item. No notification spam. Just a small character above your keyboard, walking around, doing what you're doing.

Install

Requirements:

A 2016 to 2021 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar hardware
macOS 13 (Ventura) or newer
macOS Command Line Tools (free, ~600MB): xcode-select --install
Claude Code installed

Then:

git clone https://github.com/b-barri/clawd-touchbar.git
cd clawd-touchbar
make
open Clawd.app

`make` compiles the Swift sources, bundles a tiny `.app`, and ad-hoc signs it. No Xcode, no Apple Developer Program, no 7-day expiry. The build takes about 15 seconds.

Configure

Clawd listens on `127.0.0.1:53777` for hook events from Claude Code. The first launch shows an onboarding window with the exact snippet to paste into `~/.claude/settings.json`, with a "Copy" button.

If you'd rather wire it by hand, add this to your settings file:

{
  "hooks": {
    "SessionStart": [{ "matcher": "", "hooks": [{ "type": "command", "command": "curl -s -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data-binary @- http://127.0.0.1:53777/event" }] }],
    "UserPromptSubmit": [{ "matcher": "", "hooks": [{ "type": "command", "command": "curl -s -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data-binary @- http://127.0.0.1:53777/event" }] }],
    "PreToolUse": [{ "matcher": "", "hooks": [{ "type"