pixtuoid v0.8.0 now visualizes CodeWhale sessions as pixel-art coworkers (cw·)

[IvanWng97]

Watch your CodeWhale sessions live, as little coworkers in a terminal office 🐋

I build pixtuoid — a terminal-native, pixel-art visualizer for AI coding agents. As of v0.8.0 it integrates with CodeWhale, so I wanted to show it off here.

What pixtuoid does

When you're running several coding agents at once, you end up alt-tabbing between terminals just to find out who's busy, who's idle, and who finished ten minutes ago. pixtuoid puts them all in one tiny top-down office you watch from above — every agent session becomes a character at a desk: typing while it works, dozing off when it's done, walking out when the session ends. It's open source (Rust, MIT), runs in any terminal, and renders with half-block pixel sprites.

→ Live demo

How CodeWhale shows up

Once connected, every CodeWhale session is a coworker on the floor, badged cw·:

• A desk per session — the character types/animates while CodeWhale is working and naps once it goes idle.
• Subagents get their own sprites — when a session spawns a sub-task, a child character appears next to its parent, so you can see a delegation fan out in real time.
• It leaves when CodeWhale exits — clean exits and abrupt ones (Ctrl-C / crash) are detected, so the desk frees up instead of leaving a ghost behind.
• Dashboard + Connection panel list it with the cw· badge alongside your other CLIs (Claude Code, Codex, opencode, …).

Under the hood it's a hook-only integration: pixtuoid writes a [hooks] block into ~/.codewhale/config.toml and listens over a tiny local shim — no polling, no transcript tailing, nothing sent off your machine.

Try it

brew install IvanWng97/pixtuoid/pixtuoid   # or: npm install -g pixtuoid  /  cargo install pixtuoid pixtuoid-hook
pixtuoid                                    # launch the office
# press `c` → select CodeWhale → connect, then run CodeWhale as usual

Huge thanks to @Hmbown for CodeWhale — the hooks made this a clean integration. Feedback very welcome, and happy to answer anything about how it works. 🙌

[Hmbown]

I love this!!! so cool! thank you for sharing @IvanWng97 !