Duck Pet Claude — Development skill for Claude Code

Duck Pet Claude

A pixel art desktop duck that walks around your screen with a built-in Claude Code terminal.


Click the duck to wave. Right-click for the menu. Open **Chat** to get a full Claude Code terminal floating above the duck's head.

🆕 Duck Sentinel — the co-pilot upgrade

The duck grew a brain. **[Duck Sentinel](duck-sentinel/)** turns the pet into a local-first JARVIS: a free, always-on layer watches your machine, a local LLM triages everything, and Claude Code only wakes up when something actually matters — then talks to you through the duck's bubble. Includes **🛰️ Duck Radar**, a daily *"what's trending in AI"* digest (builder + creator).

→ **[duck-sentinel/](duck-sentinel/)**

Features

• Built-in Claude Code terminal — right-click the duck, hit Chat, and a full PTY terminal opens above its head. Everything you can do in Claude Code works here.
• Idle personality — the duck talks on its own. Time-of-day greetings, random quips, and reactions when Claude starts or finishes working. Toggle on/off from the right-click menu.
• Custom sprites — swap the duck for any pixel art character. Drop a sprite pack folder and switch from the right-click menu, no restart needed.
• Claude awareness — the duck watches for running Claude Code processes. Gets excited when Claude is working, celebrates when it finishes.
• Voice chat (optional) — talk to the duck with your microphone using Edge TTS + Whisper.
• Obsidian brain — the duck searches your Obsidian vault and claude-mem history to answer questions with context.

Requirements

• Windows 10/11
• Python 3.10+ — python.org (check "Add Python to PATH" during install)
• Claude Code — claude.ai/download (free CLI from Anthropic)

Quick Start

Option 1: Double-click

Run `start.bat` — the duck appears on your taskbar in a few seconds.

Option 2: Terminal

python setup.py
python pet.py