18 Playful Terminal Animations

Fun Agent Animation setting — plays a silly visual overlay on top of the terminal while any AI agent (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Amp, or a custom wrapper) is actively generating output, with 18 animations grouped into three moods

Every animation automatically tracks wherever the running status line ("Kneading... (3s)" and friends) is rendering in the terminal, so the whip tail, hammer head, finger tip, lightning bolt, and everything else actually lands on the running AI text as it moves

Kind mood ✨ — Magic Wand, Feed Coffee, Rubber Duck, Handshake, Rub AI Head, and Good Dog: gentle overlays that bob, sparkle, blink, and pet the running line

Motivational mood 💪 — Whip Crack, Hammer, Cooling Fan, Finger Poke, Electric Shock, FASTER Rain, Manager Shouting, and Trump Mode: louder overlays that motivate (or harass) your AI to go faster

Trump Mode cycles through 20 catchphrases including "MAKE CODING GREAT AGAIN", "WRONG. VERY WRONG.", "HUGE PERFORMANCE BOOST", "NOBODY WRITES CODE BETTER THAN ME", and "MAKE TERMINALS GREAT AGAIN"

Chaos mood 🌪️ — Bug Swarm, Firefighting Mode, Cat on Keyboard, and Agent Meeting: chaotic overlays with crawling bugs, fire and foam, a walking cat, and arguing speech bubbles

Animations only run while your agent is actively working — the overlay kicks in the moment an AI terminal starts generating and vanishes the instant it goes idle, so there's no distraction while you're typing a prompt or reading a finished response

Pick or switch animations any time from Settings → Terminal → Fun Agent Animation, organized into Off · Kind ✨ · Motivational 💪 · Chaos 🌪️ sections

Zero performance cost — every animation is a pure SVG + CSS overlay with no network calls, no impact on AI output, and no effect on terminal responsiveness