party-pane

Status (2026-10-02): working prototype, art to be replaced. The agent tracking and the pane layout work, but the owner does not like the vector characters in hooks/art.js. The plan is to replace them with real pixel art once the owner supplies art sources. Do not polish the vector art further.

A side pane that shows the agents working on your requests as illustrated characters. Built for the Claude desktop app (Code tab), where it draws vector art. In a terminal it falls back to plain symbols.

• You and Claude (the Sage) is always shown, and animates while Claude is working.
• Every subagent Claude calls in gets a character, a label for its task, and a live line saying what it is doing right now ("Reading i18n.tsx", "Running npm run build").
• Finished agents get a green check and leave after 30 seconds. Clear finished removes them now.

| Agent type | Character | | --- | --- | | main Claude, Plan | Sage | | Explore | Scout | | general-purpose | Smith | | code-reviewer, security-auditor | Guardian | | test-engineer | Alchemist | | anything else | Wisp |

Open it with /party. It also opens on session start.

Art

The characters are original designs drawn as SVG in hooks/art.js, in the style of the commissioned reference art (thick dark outlines, flat cel shading, cyan rim light). They are not copies of any game's characters. To add a character: add a function to CHARACTERS, a line in CAST and NAMES. To preview all characters and states in a browser:

cd mods/party-pane
python -m http.server 8765
# open http://127.0.0.1:8765/preview/index.html

Try it

claude --plugin-dir ./mods/party-pane

Validate with Claude Code 2.1.286 or newer (see docs/mods/03-workflow.md for the version trap).