Nook

Your Claude Code sessions, living on your desktop.
A tiny pixel crew that cooks, builds and reads while your agents work,
and waves you down the moment one needs you.

Get it

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sanki92/nook/main/install.sh | bash

That's it. Nook builds on your Mac and pops onto your desktop.

Rather click? Grab Nook.zip from Releases and drag it into Applications. The first time you open it, go to System Settings → Privacy & Security and hit Open Anyway.

Meet the crew

Every session gets its own little mascot, acting out whatever it's doing right now.

Feels like a real widget

• Snaps into the same grid as Apple's widgets, on any screen
• Right-click for Medium, Large or Extra Large
• Swipe the Medium one to flip between sessions
• Helper agents tag along as tiny mascots
• Pings you with a Mac notification when a session needs you
• Click a tile to jump straight to its terminal
• Fades with your other widgets while you work in an app

It hangs out in your menu bar too: one mascot per working session, bouncing a ball between their heads. When one needs you, the game stops and it jumps up waving a "!".

Private by design

Nook only reads the files Claude Code already keeps on your Mac. No account, no API key, and nothing ever leaves your machine.

_{Nothing running? The crew camps out.}

Build from source

You only need Apple's Command Line Tools.

git clone https://github.com/sanki92/nook.git
cd nook
./build.sh --install
open ~/Applications/Nook.app

Uninstall

Right-click Nook and choose Remove Widget, then:

rm -rf ~/Applications/Nook.app /Applications/Nook.app
defaults delete app.nook.widget

_{Nook is an unofficial fan project and isn't affiliated with Anthropic. Claude Code is a trademark of Anthropic. MIT licensed.}