Claude Companion

What it does

Claude Code is powerful but invisible — you watch terminal output and guess what's happening to your files. Claude Companion runs alongside it and shows the session live: a mascot that reacts to processing/done/error states, a feed of every file read and edit made, real-time stats, and contextual nudges when context is growing or it's time to run tests. Ships three ways: VS Code extension, npm CLI, and a macOS menu-bar app. Local-first — code and prompts never leave your machine.

Extension for Visual Studio Code - Live sidebar panel for Claude Code — animated mascot, tool activity feed, session stats, and contextual suggestions.

Live sidebar panel for Claude Code — an animated mascot, tool activity feed, session stats, and contextual suggestions. Available as a VS Code extension, a macOS menu-bar corner anchor, and a CLI. Status: pre-1.0. Core features stable; some features (e.g. Apple notarization, VS Code Marketplace publish, public relay) are still being prepared for public release. To remove everything later: claude-companion uninstall (or uninstall --purge to also wipe local stat history). Marketplace publish is in progress. For now you can sideload from a locally-built .vsix : cd claude-companion npm install && npm run compile npx vsce package code --install-extension claude-companion-*.vsix Privacy Runs…from marketplace.visualstudio.com

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