Claude Pikabar — Design skill for Claude Code

pikabar

A Pokemon-style statusline for [Claude Code](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code).

Turn your rate limits into a Pokemon battle HUD. Pikachu reacts to your coding session in real-time — thinking with lightning bolts, celebrating commits, and fainting into a Pokeball when you're rate limited.

Features

• Pikachu pixel art rendered with Unicode half-blocks (▀▄█) + ANSI 256-color
• 8 reaction states: idle, thinking, staging, committed, recovered, compacted, hit, faint
• HP bar = rate limit quota remaining (green > yellow > red, like the games)
• PP bar = context window space remaining (steel blue)
• Status badges: [PAR] [SLP] [PSN] [BRN] [FRZ] with game-accurate colors
• Lv.N SPECIES model display (Lv.4 OPUS, Lv.3 SONNET)
• Session cost tracking ($0.42)
• Delta-driven reactions — Pikachu responds to changes between statusline calls
• Pokeball when rate limited (Pikachu recalled!)
• 64 flavor texts + easter eggs in Pokemon battle narrator voice
• Git branch + staged/modified counts
• Shiny Pikachu — 1/1024 chance per session (orange palette, per-session persistence)
• Session greeting — Pokemon-style welcome text on first call (day-aware)
• Commit confetti — multi-color celebration particles on git commits
• Critical HP drama — DANGER label + dramatic flavor text when HP < 10%
• Streak counter — consecutive active days with escalating flame icon
• Self-update — pikabar update pulls latest from GitHub
• Zero dependencies — pure Python 3.8+ stdlib

Quick Start

pip install git+https://github.com/fioenix/claude-pikabar.git
pikabar install

That's it. Restart Claude Code and Pikachu appears.

To update: `pikabar update` | To remove: `pikabar uninstall`

Manual install (without pip)

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git clone h