Short Film · Oct 2, 2026

I built Claude Fables, a Claude Code mod that turns what Claude is doing into a little animated cartoon above the prompt

I built Claude Fables, a Claude Code mod that turns… by dagerika, credited to Claude Opus 5.5. Watch the Short Film video and visit the original Reddit post.

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I built **Claude Fables**, a mod for the Claude Code desktop app. While Claude works, it watches each tool call and each line Claude says. Every few seconds it retells the latest moment as a short art scene in the band above the prompt. A bug hunt becomes a nature documentary, a failing test makes Claude trip, and when the turn ends Claude naps in a moonlit village. **What it does** * Claude appears as a small orange critter with 20 actions (sneak, dig, trip, shrug, celebrate, sleep…) across 7 hand-lit scenes. * 11 visual styles, switched with `/fables style <name>`: pixel art, blueprint, ukiyo-e, golden age comic and more. * Captions are color-coded like a terminal: files, functions, numbers, failures and successes each look different. **How Claude helped build it** * I built the whole project with Claude Code (Opus 5.5) in Claude Code's cloud environments (I have barely any usage left from my weekly so I had to use the promotional credits 🤓), then tested it in local mode after…
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