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Intermission — Development skill for Claude Code

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Play Doom deathmatch while Claude works.

How to install Intermission

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

What Intermission does

Play Doom deathmatch while Claude works. A Claude Code plugin.

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README

intermission

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

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![intermission in action](intermission-preview.png)

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](https://odamex.net) with [Freedoom](https://freedoom.github.io)'s maps, with monsters left in so the server is never empty.

Install

Install the plugin:

/plugin install intermission --marketplace jarrodwatts/intermission

Turn it on:
```
/intermission
```
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
Ghostty or kitty, the terminals that can show the game's pixels
Claude Code 2.1.287 or later

Controls

Click the game to play. The click also locks the mouse for turning; Esc or ⌘ releases it.


Move	WASD or the arrow keys
Turn	the mouse, once locked
Fire	left click
Run forward	hold right click
Open doors	space
Weapons	1 to 7

If your terminal is too narrow for the pane to open by itself, a line above the prompt offers it instead: press 1.

What it connects to

The game connects over UDP to the intermission server at `157.245.140.115`, under a random name such as `QueuedMarine42`. Nothing about your session, project or