Clawd On Desk

Clawd on Desk is a desktop companion that shows, in real time, what an AI coding agent is doing. An animated pixel crab sits on the desktop and changes state as the agent works: thinking when a prompt is sent, typing while tools run, juggling when subagents are active, reviewing permission requests, celebrating when a task completes and sleeping when the developer steps away. The idea is that a developer can start a long task, walk away and glance back to see whether it has finished or is waiting on them. It is for developers who run terminal coding agents and want a visible, low effort status signal. Integration is deepest with Claude Code, which connects through command hooks and HTTP permission hooks so Allow and Deny decisions can be made from a desktop bubble. It also supports a long list of other agents, including Codex CLI, Copilot CLI, Gemini CLI, Cursor Agent, Kiro CLI, Kimi Code CLI, Qwen Code, opencode, OpenClaw and Hermes Agent, most through optional hooks installed from the settings screen, and some in a state only mode where permissions stay in the agent's own interface. Custom local agents can post lifecycle events to a local endpoint. Three themes ship built in, Clawd, Calico and Cloudling, with support for custom themes, imported Codex Pet animation packs and optional downloadable official themes. Clawd on Desk is free and open source under the GNU AGPL version 3 license, with no paid tier. Releases are available for Windows 11, with separate x64 and ARM64 installers, macOS and Ubuntu or other Linux distributions, and source builds require Node.js.