Claudoro, Pomodoro timer embedded in the Claude Code statusline

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• tool is great by your readme is pure unreadable ai slop - try to naturalise it a bit
  by OttoVonBizark
• Mmm apols. You’d think I’d have learned my lesson by now, but it’s just so seductive to have it write for you. I got burned with this very HN post for doing just that, but they kindly let me rewrite it. Will tweak it. Thanks for the feedback!
  by emson
• Great idea and I’ll definitely try it but all those flags needed to run the startup command scare me lol
  by Vaslo
• It has sensible defaults just do /pomo start

  It’s only if you want to customise it. Also CC will do it for you. It’s very agent friendly

  by emson
• Your website is broken btw - Clicking into another article through related work goes to the same page
  by chychiu
• Side note, many windows people still don't know about psmux https://github.com/psmux/psmux
  by tiahura
• Many windows people don’t even know they have a native package manager now in winget !
  by jazzyjackson
• Ah nice thanks. Love tmux, incidentally I came across this the other day as an alternative to Ghostty: https://supacode.sh/
  by emson
• Opus is so slow these days what I really want is a bell sound to ring when it's done. I kick off some task and then it takes 3-12 minutes to complete. It's wrong, so I tell it to revert and try again with slightly different instructions.
  by hadlock
• Try superset, it does that
  by bicepjai
• Cmux notifications does this too
  by sathish316
• Have you tried analysing all your prompts, and then telling it to "figure out" what custom skills might improve your prompts? I do actually have another project I'm working on that does this... it's been super useful for seeing how I prompt, what Skills I use and getting them to evolve and improve (I know Hermes does some of this, but it's been interesting rolling my own - will release soon!!)
  by emson
• You can use edit your settings.json in ~/.claude and put a hook for it like this:

      "Stop": [
        {
          "hooks": [
            {
              "type": "command",
              "command": "afplay ~/.claude/hooks/chime.wav",
              "async": true
            },

  by momentmaker
• This is pretty funny. One thing that I like about the pomodoro method is the ticking of a timer though. On the other hand maybe if it's quiet it won't bother other people.
  by jayzer01
• I recently had a nasty accident too and snapped my collar bone, broken tibia, and 6 broken ribs, so I can absolutely relate. Claude Code was there for me in a big way as well :-)

  It's a long road to recovery. I'm 5 months in and still in a lot of pain, but it does (slowly) get better. Hope you're spirits stay up!

  by freedomben
• Thanks for sharing. I was stuck in a Greek hospital for 8 days with 2 fractured vertebrae, before I could get home. It’s easy to get into a spiral, but putting your mind to build something really helps. I do hope your ribs and collar bone is getting better? I’ve been lucky, as it will heal but could have been really bad. Phew!
  by emson
• I like this. Small tools inside the workflow feel much more useful than separate productivity apps I have to remember to open.
  by murats
• Me too. Also it’s good to get decent reports that can be used for other things. For example the logs help me fill in my time sheets. Also it forces me to take breaks
  by emson
• I ended up building a vs-code/IDE style workflow for claude that has a "file browser" of CC sessions in the left column, sorted by repo, and then terminal in the right column, and then I've been tacking features like this onto it
  by hadlock
• Great idea! I just created one for Pi

  https://github.com/mkaz/pi-modoro

  by marcuskaz
• Fantastic. I think these small productivity tools embedded in harnesses is pretty powerful. I especially like that you can get the AI to use it and also just pop into the CLI. Also nice to generate useful web dashboards etc
  by emson
• Nice. I think there will be a cottage industry of porting every Mac menu bar utility to Claude. I can't use this until it doesn't show seconds. A MM:SS timer is tolerable when it's in my menu bar, but a ticking timer right where my focus is during a work session would be very distracting to me. The best version of this, for me, would be one that leans into Claude's ability to customize its own statusbar. If Claudoro is in charge of writing timer data to somewhere Claude can see it, I can tell Claude exactly how to display the timer in the statusline.
  by incidentist
• > I think there will be a cottage industry of porting every Mac menu bar utility to Claude.

  As long as those native (Objective-C / Swift) menu bar apps are ported as native (Go, Rust, Zig, etc.) binaries for Agent CLI(s) like Claude Code or Codex CLI to use, instead of JavaScript, as this project is written, then the broader community of Agent CLI users will be fine. Otherwise, it will be another nightmare induced by JavaScript.

  by guessmyname
• Love that it follows you from terminal to terminal, super useful.

  Though, if you're following Cal Newport-ian rules, watching over multiple agents doing their work is no longer a 25 minute "deep work" Pomodoro, and god knows Newport has been complaining about it [1]

  [1]: https://calnewport.com/avoiding-digital-productivity-traps/#...

  by pj_mukh
• Nice! I love Cal Newport. I've definitely found spinning up multiple Claude Code instances eats into your focus, and you can "lose yourself" quite quickly. I find I use pomodoros more as nudges, and use the "beeps" to bring me back if I'm in the browser or something. but yeah... it's a trap for sure!
  by emson
• Also for tmux (which I always run claude inside)

  https://github.com/olimorris/tmux-pomodoro-plus

  by felooboolooomba
• Ooo that's cool thank you. That's really useful! My other CLI project was: https://github.com/emson/pymodoro
  by emson
• That is what I hoped for. Claude as a shell? I think you spent more time in tmux than Claude, right?
  by gbraad
• From the title I thought it’d be a timer for the agent itself, so it doesn’t waste time on endless thinking loops, etc.
  by fellowmartian
• Oh that’s an idea? Could use hooks or something?
  by emson