The pets

🐾 The pets

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Chibi, Dokki, Gemma and Ciel live on your desktop and react to what your sessions are doing. Here's how to pick one, what each gesture means and how to change colors, themes and sounds.

On this page: Pick your pet · On the desktop · What each gesture means · One per agent · Sounds · Colors and themes

The characters

Chibi Claude	Dokki DeepSeek	Gemma Gemini	Ciel Codex
Crab hoodie with eyes on stalks. Builds a little house with a mallet and shakes maracas when a limit resets.	A whale maid, sweet and calm. Curtsies to say hi, cheers with a spout and sleeps blowing bubbles.	Tsundere with twin tails. Cheers… and quickly pretends she didn't. Says hi grudgingly. Hmph!	Serene. Thinks in a green </> and celebrates without jumping, with a calm checkmark.

Each one has their own gestures and voice, and the assistant takes on their personality when it talks to you. There's also the Classic, the one-color little critter that follows the app's color.

How to pick your pet

1. Open Settings › Appearance (in quick settings or in Claupet Console).
2. Under Pet, choose Classic, Chibi, Dokki, Gemma or Ciel.
3. If you like, change the Pet size: Small, Medium, Normal or Large.

The pet you pick also animates the icon while refreshing and shows up in notifications.

Tip

Prefer an icon without a pet? The same list has Asterisk (Claude Code's ✻), Dots (a wave that ends in a smile) and None. They're only the refresh animation; notifications use the Classic.

The pet on the desktop

Turn on Settings › Pet › Desktop pet (it turns on by itself when you pick a character).

• Drag it wherever you like; it stays on screen and remembers its spot.
• Right-click: Open Claupet or Hide from desktop.
• One click: it waves. Lots of clicks in a row… better not.
• Drop a file on it and it carries it in a box to the island to summarize it (see Notifications and the island).

With Talk (notifications in a bubble), it tells you each notification its own way, in a bubble above its head. Clicking the bubble opens the same thing as the notification.

What each gesture means

Gesture	When
Reads a book	The session is reading files.
Looks through a magnifying glass	Searching the project.
Writes in a notebook	Editing or creating files.
Types on a laptop	Running commands.
Spins a globe	Searching or reading the web.
A helper appears with a "poof"	Delegating to a subagent.
A cloud with three dots	Thinking about the next step.
Builds a little house	Using some other tool, or it's been thinking for a while.
Cheers	Done.
Hand over its mouth	Waiting for you: a question or a permission.
Sleeps	No sessions.
Cha-cha-cha with maracas	A limit reset (session or week).
Dizzy	Something failed, or usage is at the limit.
Waves	When it appears and when you click it.
Pouts, crosses its arms, fumes	3, 6 and 9 clicks in a row. It gets over it in a few seconds.

With several sessions, it shows what matters most: first a question or a permission, then whatever changes things (editing, running) and then whatever just looks.

Note

With music playing on Windows (Spotify, YouTube in the browser…), it bobs its head to the beat and, when there's no work going on, dances. It only checks whether something is playing, not what.

How to turn off a behavior

In Claupet Console, Settings › Pet has a switch for each one, all on by default:

Switch	If you turn it off
On every desktop	It stops following you when you switch virtual desktops (Spaces on macOS).
Flow gestures (what the session is doing)	It dances while working, instead of showing each step.
Dance to music (Windows)	It doesn't react to music.
Notification gesture	It doesn't repeat each notification's gesture.
Wave when appearing	It appears without waving.
Get angry at too many clicks	It always waves.
Sleep with no sessions	It stays still.

One pet per agent

Following Codex, Gemini or Copilot too? In Settings › Pet › Other agents, turn on One pet per agent: each one gets its own pet next to Claude Code's.

• Pick each one's character in …'s pet. Any character works for any agent.
• It types while that agent is working, stays still if it worked recently and then sleeps.
• Hide from desktop, in its right-click menu, leaves that agent without a pet.

Sounds

In Settings › Alerts:

• Sound style: Classic, Giggles, Chibi (an "oi!", and an "uwaaa!" if something fails), Dokki, Gemma or Ciel. Each character has its own tone.
• Show a sample notification shows one and plays it.
• Open sounds folder opens the sonidos folder.

Tip

Your own sounds. Inside sonidos, in the propios folder, put a .wav or .mp3 named terminado (done), pregunta (question), permiso (permission), fallo (failed), uso (usage) or aviso (notice): it plays instead of the chosen style.

Colors and themes

Color. In Settings › Appearance › Color, pick a palette: Terracotta (the default), Ocean, Forest, Lavender, Rose or Graphite. It changes the accent of bars, switches, links, the icon and the Classic pet. Light or dark mode follows your system.

Your own themes. In Claupet Console, Settings › Appearance › Themes shows a card per theme, with its preview. To create one:

1. In New theme, describe what you want: "a beach theme with an animated background", "something autumnal with a rounder font".
2. Choose the Quality: Fast (Sonnet), Medium (Opus) or High (Fable).
3. Press Create (or Enter). While Claude designs it, its card glows and you can cancel.
4. When it's done, the theme is selected.

To…	Do this
Pick a theme	Tap its card. The Claupet card means no theme.
Export or delete it	Use the ⋯ menu on its card.
Bring one in	Import a theme › Choose file… (an exported .json).
Go back to a palette	Pick a Color: the theme is removed, but stays saved in its card.

Note

A theme can bring its own font and an animated pixel-art background (beach, rain, snow, stars, sakura…), shown in Claupet Console. Claupet fixes the contrast by itself so everything stays readable. Creating a theme uses the assistant's account, like any message.

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