pets Lives in your macOS menubar

Your AI agent deserves a pet.

Codogotchi lives in your menubar and animates in real time to what your agent is doing — coding, thinking, testing, erroring, waiting. A cute little buddy inside your workflow.

Works with Claude Code Codex Cursor Copilot (VS Code) Antigravity
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Codogotchi's pet Maew animating in the macOS app — hearts, level, and live coding status.

Live capture of the real menubar pet · hearts, level & mood move with your agent

Four ways to get a pet

Start with Maew, hatch something new, adopt a buddy, or draw your own.

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Meet Maew

The charming default pet who ships with the app. A cute-flirty buddy in a white sundress, animated across all 19 agent states out of the box.

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Hatch your own with AI

Describe a pet or drop a seed image and your agent generates a full animated spritesheet for you — one row at a time — via the hatch-codogotchi skill.

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Adopt a community pet

Browse pets hatched and hand-drawn by other developers, then drop the folder into ~/.codogotchi/pets/ and switch to it in Settings → Pet.

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Bring your own spritesheet

Hand-draw a Codex-compatible sheet using the reference spec — an 8-column grid with a 192×208 cell. Tier 1 is all you need to start.

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Reacts to your agent

The pet's animation changes per activity — implementing, testing, thinking, reading, cramming, errored, standby. 19 states driven by real lifecycle hooks, not a spinner.

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Tiered spritesheets

Tier 1 (Codex 8×9) is the required base. Tier 2 (Lite 8×11) adds per-activity art and idle escalation. Tier 3 (SoA 8×10) lights up delivery-gate moments.

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RPG layer (coming soon) soon

Your pet already earns levels and half-hearts from real coding activity. XP, leaderboards, and a social feed are on the way — free, no pay-to-win.

Install Codogotchi

Private beta · build from source

There's no notarized DMG yet — the macOS app is a source build during the private beta. The .app bundles its own codogotchi binary, so there's no PATH prerequisite. On first launch it asks to install hooks; after that, manage everything from Settings → General.

# clone & build the menubar app
bun install
bun run mac:build
open "$(find ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData \
-name 'Codogotchi.app' -path '*/Build/Products/*' | head -1)"

Then approve the Welcome to Codogotchi consent sheet to install hooks for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot (VS Code) and Antigravity — no Terminal commands required.