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Claude Cretan Cat — Development skill for Claude Code

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Manousos, a pixel-art Cretan cat above your Claude Code prompt.

How to install Claude Cretan Cat

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

What Claude Cretan Cat does

Manousos, a pixel-art Cretan cat above your Claude Code prompt. Clawd tells him what to do; he answers in mantinades.

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README

claude-cretan-cat

Manousos, a Cretan cat, lives above your Claude Code prompt. While Claude works, Clawd tells him what to do, and Manousos answers in mantinades, the rhyming couplets of Crete. When the work is done he sits and purrs; when nothing is happening he sleeps on his cushion. Behind them stands Psiloritis, under the sun or the moon as your clock says.

![Clawd and Manousos above the Claude Code prompt](docs/demo.gif)

He is drawn after a real cat: dark brown long hair, a white bib and white mittens.

It costs nothing to run. There are no model calls and no network requests; everything is drawn locally from what Claude Code is already doing.

An independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic.

What he does

When	Manousos	Clawd
Nothing is running	Sleeps curled up on his cushion	Dozes
Claude is thinking	Paces the lawn, singing a mantinada	Nudges him about your task: How's "checkout tests" going, Manousos?
Claude runs a tool	Crouches, wiggles, pounces	Gives the order for that tool: Run the command!, Read the file!
Claude needs you: a permission prompt, a question, a plan to approve	Sits up and looks at you, `?` over his head: Meow! Waiting for you.	Waves at you
Tests pass	Dances	Cheers
Tests fail	Hisses	Tests are red...
A commit goes in	Catches the sardine Clawd tosses him, and eats it	Tosses it
A tool runs for over 20 seconds	Yawns, then dozes off until it's done (not for questions, helpers, or a call that asked your permission: there is no signal for when you answer, so he stays up for it)	Don't fall asleep, it's still running!
The work is done	If Claude ran any tools, eats a sardine first; then sits, wags his tail, sings one more couplet	Tosses a sardine, then cheers
Something failed	Jumps, tail puffed up	Asks what happened
You pressed Esc	Goes back to sleep	Dozes