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Wild Pokémon appear while you wait for Claude Code
Half of Claude Code is waiting. claudemon makes that time a game: your prompts are steps through the grass, every 20s of work another step. Something jumps out, the status line says so, you fight it in a second terminal tab. All 151, fully local, no account.
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[Redacted] • Aug 3, 2026
Congrats on the launch, @zamarrowski🚀 Converting idle wait time into a Pokemon game is such a clever idea. Context switching for 20-second waits usually kills focus, so keeping it right in the terminal is super smart. Love that it's open source and fully local too. Good luck with the launch today!
[Redacted] • Aug 3, 2026
The thing that makes this work is that the game only advances while Claude does, which is also the trap. You're paying people in Pokémon for waiting, so a run that spins for 20 minutes and produces nothing still feels great. I'd tie the encounter to exit code rather than elapsed time. Then a failed run costs you the catch, and you've accidentally built the only test result anyone would actually watch for.
[Redacted] • Aug 2, 2026
Hi PH 👋
Half my day in Claude Code is watching it work. Not long enough to switch
tasks, too long to just sit there. claudemon lives in that gap.
It's a Pokémon game that only advances while Claude does. Your prompts are
steps through the grass; every twenty seconds Claude works is another step.
Something jumps out, the status line tells you, you fight it in a second
terminal tab.
OpenSource, Free, MIT, fully local.
Half my day in Claude Code is watching it work. Not long enough to switch
tasks, too long to just sit there. claudemon lives in that gap.
It's a Pokémon game that only advances while Claude does. Your prompts are
steps through the grass; every twenty seconds Claude works is another step.
Something jumps out, the status line tells you, you fight it in a second
terminal tab.
OpenSource, Free, MIT, fully local.