I gave my AI coding assistant a body — and now it lives in my terminal

The problem with invisible AI I code with Claude every day. It's genuinely helpful. But the interaction is... clinical. Text in, text out. No personality. No sense that something is there with me. ...

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I gave my AI coding assistant a body — and now it lives in my terminal

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The problem with invisible AI I code with Claude every day. It's genuinely helpful. But the interaction is... clinical. Text in, text out. No personality. No sense that something is there with me. I kept thinking: what if your AI assistant had a presence? Not a chatbot avatar. Something that reacts to what you're doing. Gets happy when tests pass. Gets tired when you've been coding for 6 hours straight. Has idle thoughts while you're reading docs. So I built it. Meet Oh My Kira Oh My Kira is a terminal renderer that displays an animated companion next to your code. It hooks into Claude code's state file and reacts in real time. Your buddy has: Animated sprites — different animations for idle, working, happy, tired, error states Live stat bars — hunger, happiness, energy, hygiene (yes, really) XP and evolution — your buddy levels up as you code Speech bubbles — random thoughts, reactions to your session Streak tracking — consecutive coding days It's a Tamagotchi that lives in your termi

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