Greengo
A little green cowboy robot who rides along in Claude Code and reacts to what Claude is doing.
- Client
- Personal project
- Year
- 2026
- Role
- Design and code
- Links
Greengo lives in Claude Code’s status line. He swings his lasso while Claude works, saddles a horse for every subagent, goes stone cold when Claude needs your OK, and naps when things go quiet.
session starts [¬‿¬]/ howdy, partner! 🤠 reads a file ┌[≖_≖]┘~◯ readin’ auth.ts 📜 needs your OK [¬_¬]╾~ yer move, partner 🎲 a tool failed [×_×] well, shoot 🌵 90 quiet seconds [-_-] countin’ sheep… er, cattle 🐄
Why
Flibbertigibbeting… Combobulating… Claude Code shows these little rotating words while it works. They’re charming, but after enough hours I knew them all by heart and wanted a bit more flavour. So Greengo narrates what Claude is actually doing, in a frontier drawl.
Small, but careful
I built him with Claude Code. All his personality lives in one readable bash script. Faces are always five characters wide, so his hat sits straight. He rides in the terminal, in VS Code and in the Claude desktop app, which has no status line, so each one got its own small way to draw him. The installer backs up your settings, and the uninstaller puts back the status line you had before. He adds nothing to Claude’s context and sends nothing anywhere.
Inspired by pixel-pet by lakmadev.