Nomlings – The hungry Tamagotchi that devours your Claude Code tokens

Nomlings is a Tamagotchi that lives subsequent to your terminal, and its solely meals is the tokens your Claude Code periods burn via. You work, it eats. You slack off, it waits.

And whilst you watch your utilization soften away, it is having the time of its life!!

The little creature known as a Munchling – a “tokivore,” mainly – displayed on a 64-pixel display screen, and each accomplished job earns it +10 XP and a snack.

When a software crashes, it sulks, and when Claude has been ready in your enter for some time since you wandered off to make espresso, it nudges you to get again to work. In brief, it is a pixel creature that may guilt-trip you into not procrastinating – which might truly be fairly helpful once you’re a freelancer who’s additionally a world-class slacker ^^.

Under the hood, the app processes occasions out of your periods by hooking into Claude Code’s official hooks (SessionStart, PostToolUse, and Stop), which solely run regionally. If the app is not working, these hooks do completely nothing, so no slowdowns to fret about. It works a bit like
Notchi
for many who comprehend it.

On the elevating facet, your Munchling begins out in an egg and evolves to maturity, first rising one antenna, then a second (fancy ^^). It will get a snack for each accomplished job, plus one it forages by itself each half-hour – even with the app closed – with a most of 5 in reserve. There’s additionally a FEED button that permits you to feed it every time it provides you pet eyes. And don’t fret – in contrast to the Tamagotchi out of your childhood that you simply discovered useless on the backside of your faculty bag, this one cannot die!

Oh, you do not use Claude Code?

No worries, there is a companion mode made for you. In this mode, the hooks server and transcript watcher by no means begin, and nothing is written to your ~/.claude. The creature feeds as an alternative on the duties you full and the interactions you set off inside Nomlings. For instance, checking off a job earns +10 XP and a snack, identical to a Claude session would. It jogs my memory of Codachi, that
Tamagotchi you undertake inside VSCode [FR]
to code rather less alone – besides right here you do not want any specific editor.

Anyway, it is enjoyable and it is free – until you go for the beauty pack, which unlocks 9 further species (dragon, chick, ghost, robotic, frog, bee…), together with 9 instances to decorate up the system and freely choosable colours.

Now, there’s THE sticking level: for now, Nomlings solely runs on Windows. Yeah, sorry, that is life!

Anyway, should you suppose all of the tokens you burn via on Claude Code deserve a extra wonderful destiny than a plain counter stressing you out, head
over here
to test it out.