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Clawd Spinner

Clawd acts out the spinner word in a little pixel scene while Claude works

Clawd Spinner running in Claude Code

Recorded on Claude Code 2.1.287 in a sandbox. Claude's replies are scripted; everything the mod draws is real.

What it does

While Claude works, the spinner grows into an eight-row pixel scene, and Clawd, the Claude Code mascot, acts out whatever word the spinner picked. Sautéing gets a campfire and a pan, Pondering gets pacing, Moonwalking gets a backwards dance, and a word like Effecting puts Clawd at an anvil next to a forge. The usual spinner line with the word and the time sits underneath. It's purely for fun.

How to use it

Install it and send a prompt. There's nothing to configure.

Good to know

  • There are 11 acts: cooking, thinking, dancing, building, computing, herding, strolling, weather, gardening, space and a conjuring trick with a wand and a top hat. The mod matches the spinner word against word stems, and any word it doesn't know gets the conjuring trick.
  • Claude Code picks the spinner word at random, so you see a different act from turn to turn.
  • It only draws in the terminal. In a window narrower than 54 columns you get the normal spinner.
  • It's unofficial fan art of Anthropic's mascot.