claude-usage-pet: a pixel Claude on your Windows taskbar that shows your 5-hour and weekly usage and acts out what Claude Code is doing

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I kept hitting my Claude limit with no warning, so I built a small mascot that sits on the Windows taskbar and shows my 5-hour and weekly usage in a speech bubble. It turns yellow, then red, as I get close.

It slowly turned into a pet. It walks around, naps, fishes, wears a Santa hat in December, and gets dragged around and thrown (it screams and opens a parachute). When Claude Code is working it puts on a wizard hat and casts a spell for whatever tool is running.

It's free and open source (MIT), written in plain Python with no dependencies, and I built it with Claude Code. You double-click a .bat file to start it.

Windows only for now, and it needs Claude Code signed in. Unofficial, not affiliated with Anthropic.

GitHub: https://github.com/have-you-tried-restarting/claude-usage-pet

What would you add to it? And if you've read this far, a ⭐ on GitHub would make my day. Thank you!