TranslatedAbout this mod
Claude Fables is a mod for the Claude Code desktop app. While running, it listens to every tool call and every line Claude says, and every few seconds turns the latest snippet into a short animation above the prompt bar: bug hunting becomes a nature documentary, test failures show Claude tripping, and the end of a turn is a nap in a moonlit village. Claude appears as a small orange creature with 20 actions (sneaking, digging, tripping, shrugging, celebrating, sleeping, etc.) and 7 hand-lit scenes, supports 11 visual styles, switchable with /fables style <name> (pixel, blueprint, ukiyo-e, golden age comics, etc.), and subtitles are color-coded like a terminal by file, function, number, failure, and success. The author developed it entirely with Claude Code (Opus 5.5) in a cloud environment; hooks, scene validators, SVG renderers, tests, README GIFs, and release videos were all generated by Claude Code. At runtime, Sonnet or Haiku returns a small JSON scene based on recent activity; the mod strictly validates the JSON, skips bad responses entirely, and never executes them as code. Each scene is one Sonnet/Haiku request and consumes a small amount of personal Claude usage. Installation: clone the repository, add its path to CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_DIRS in the env block of ~/.claude/settings.json, and restart the desktop app; the /fables command may not be in the command list but is available. Note: mod API
Original text / README
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 I pulled the project from GitHub (it unfortunately doesn't work while you are working in cloud environment). Claude Code wrote the mod's hooks, the scene validator and the SVG renderer that animates each scene with no script running. It also ported the 3D Claude model from a mascot style gallery and wrote the tests. The README's GIFs and the launch video were also rendered by Claude Code, using the mod's own renderer stepped frame by frame in headless Chromium. This is why he UI looks a bit different than your usual CC UI. At runtime, Claude writes the story too: Sonnet (or Haiku) gets the recent activity and replies with a small JSON scene. The mod validates the JSON strictly, so a bad reply is just skipped and never runs as code. Feel free to try it It's free and on GitHub: https://github.com/henrik-thevibe/Claude-Fables Clone the repo. Add its path to CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_DIRS in the env block of ~/.claude/settings.json . Restart the desktop app. You may not see the /fables command after installing, but if you done everything right it should still respond to it even if it doesn't show up in the command list. If the installation seems complicated just use Claude or any other AI (tested it using ChatGPT) and it will install it for you (there is a detailed installation guide inside the repo's files)! Each scene is one small Sonnet or Haiku request, so it uses a few requests a minute of your own Claude usage while Claude works. The mod API is early access, so expect rough edges. Bug reports are welcome. submitted by /u/dagerika [link] [comments]
