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Skindeep — Design skill for Claude Code

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Winamp-style skins for Claude Code and Codex on Linux: the unmodified CLI in a window of live meters, with a visualizer.

How to install Skindeep

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

What Skindeep does

Winamp-style skins for Claude Code and Codex on Linux: the unmodified CLI in a window of live meters, with a visualizer.

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README

skindeep

Skindeep Knickknacks, Instruments, and Needles, Delivering Essentially Equivalent Performance.

[**Read the dev diary**](https://b-g-goodell.github.io/skindeep/): one entry per chapter, in plain words, with a picture. The latest:

[![Nine font names on a chalkboard with one circled, beside the front page shrinking](docs/diary/heroes/23-chalk-and-readme.png)](docs/diary/23-chalk-and-readme.md)

[Chapter 23: Chalk, and a shorter front page](docs/diary/23-chalk-and-readme.md)

Winamp-style skins for Claude Code and Codex on Linux. Your agent runs as always in a real terminal, while the skin around it shows gauges, needles and lamps that move with what the agent is doing, and a second window draws a visualizer from it. Its commands are `claude-skins`, `codex-skins` and `skinned`.

![skindeep running Claude Code in the deck skin, two tabs open, with the visualization window](docs/screenshot.png)

The gauges show how full the context is, how near auto-compact is, the session's cost, your usage limits, and the tools and helpers the agent runs. The app never types into the terminal, changes its output, calls a model or edits your settings, and a strip at the top that no skin can cover names the running command and its folder.

Install

You need Linux with a desktop, `git`, `claude` or `codex` on PATH, Node.js 22.12 or newer, `python3`, `make`, `g++`, fontconfig and the DejaVu fonts. To draw the visualizer from your speakers, add `parec` (`pulseaudio-utils`) or `pw-record` (`pipewire-bin`).

git clone https://github.com/b-g-goodell/skindeep.git
cd skindeep
./install.sh

If something is missing, the script says how to get it and stops. Otherwise it downloads Electron (about 120 MB) and puts `claude-skins`, `codex-skins` and `skinned` in `~/.local/bin`, or in `BINDIR` if you set it. Run it again after each `git pull`, and `./uninstall.sh` removes the commands, as [decision 0018](docs/decisions/0018-install.md) explains. Or tell your agent: