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Claude Buddy Cyd — Development skill for Claude Code

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A desk companion for Claude Code: the orange Clawd mascot on a Cheap Yellow Display (ESP32) that mirrors your live Claude Code activity and usage stats — driven entirely by Claude Code hooks over Blue.

How to install Claude Buddy Cyd

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

What Claude Buddy Cyd does

A desk companion for Claude Code: the orange Clawd mascot on a Cheap Yellow Display (ESP32) that mirrors your live Claude Code activity and usage stats — driven entirely by Claude Code hooks over Bluetooth LE, with no WiFi, no network setup, and no always-on PC process

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README

CYD Claude Buddy

CYD Claude Buddy — a yellow ESP32 display with the orange Clawd mascot

A tiny desk companion for **Claude Code**, built on the **ESP32 Cheap Yellow Display**. Clawd acts out your coding activity, tracks usage, and nudges you when Claude needs you.

  • Live animations for editing, running commands, reading, thinking, and more.
  • Usage at a glance: tokens, tool calls, turns, sessions, and daily trends.
  • USB, Bluetooth LE, or WiFi, with a bridge that starts and stops on demand.

[Animations](#clawd-in-action) · [Quick start](#quick-start) · [User guide](docs/GUIDE.md) · [Hook setup](tools/HOOKS.md)

Clawd in action

All **29 animations**, as shown on the device. Click a preview to open the GIF.

Working

Clawd — typing
Typing
Clawd — writing
Writing
Clawd — running commands
Running commands
Clawd — building
Building
Clawd — reading
Reading
Clawd — inspecting
Insp