Feature request: configurable companion (bubble duration & language)
Feature request
The companion feature (the small animated character beside the input box) is a lovely touch, but currently its behavior is not configurable.
Requested settings
1. Bubble display duration — The speech bubble disappears too quickly to read, especially for non-native English speakers. A setting like companion.bubbleDuration ("short" | "medium" | "long" | "persistent") would help.
2. Companion language — The companion always speaks English, even when the user's language is configured to something else (via CLAUDE.md or system settings). A companion.language setting — or simply respecting the existing language configuration — would be great.
Suggested config
In ~/.claude/settings.json:
{
"companion": {
"bubbleDuration": "long",
"language": "fr"
}
}
Context
As a French-speaking user, the companion's bubbles disappear before I can finish reading them, and switching mental context to English for a brief quip breaks the flow. Both issues would be solved by these two small settings.
Thanks for the great work on Claude Code!
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