Motion Design · Oct 6, 2026
I built pixel-art cats and dogs that live above your Claude Code prompt (free plugin)
I built pixel-art cats and dogs that live above your Claude Code prompt (free… by badgger. Watch the Motion Design video and visit the original Reddit post.
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I love having pets in my editor, so inspired by [vscode-pets](https://github.com/tonybaloney/vscode-pets) I built my own version for Claude Code! It's a plugin that puts little pixel-art cats and dogs in a band above your prompt in the terminal. What they do: * walk back and forth and sit down every so often * run around while Claude is working * fall asleep after two minutes of nothing happening * `/pet pat` makes a heart pop up over them You can have up to 6 pets. Cats and dogs each come in 4 colours, and your pets are saved between sessions. You manage them with `/pet add`, `/pet rename`, `/pet remove`, `/pet hide` and so on. How I built it: the whole thing was built with Claude Code over about two days. I started by having Claude write a short spec for v1. Then it built the plugin from that: the renderer, the animation and the `/pet` command. The art took the most back and forth. The sprites are drawn in code as grids of characters, so I'd look at them, tell Claude what…
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