A Claude Code spinner that draws live cartoons of the work

Claude Code's spinner tells you the agent is working and nothing about the work. Anshu replaced it with a mod that watches what the main agent is doing and has Sonnet 5.5 turn it into little cartoons, live.

It is a small, odd, delightful use of a model — not a product, a progress indicator with a sense of humour. A second model narrates the first one's work in pictures, so the wait becomes something you actually want to look at.

It is also a neat loop: the tool being customised is a coding agent, and the customisation was vibe-coded too. Modding your dev tools no longer requires knowing how they were built.