:rocket: Introducing tweakcc - customize your Claude Code installation

tweakcc is a lightweight, interactive CLI tool that lets you personalize your Claude Code interface.

<img src="https://github.com/Piebald-AI/tweakcc/raw/main/assets/demo.gif" alt="Animated GIF demonstrating running npx tweakcc, creating a new theme, changing all of Claude Code's UI colors to purple, changing the thinking format from '<verb>ing...' to 'Claude is <verb>ing', changing the generating spinner style to a 50m glow animation, applying the changes, running Claude, and using '/config' to switch to the new theme, and sending a message to see the new thinking verb format." width="800">

With tweakcc, you can

• Customize all of Claude Code's system prompts
• Create custom toolsets that can be used in Claude Code with a new /toolset command
• Manually name sessions in Claude Code with /title my chat name or /rename
• Create custom themes with a graphical HSL/RGB color picker
• Add custom thinking verbs that will show while Claude's working
• Create custom thinking spinner animations with different speeds and phases
• Change the "CLAUDE CODE" banner text to your own text with your own figlet fonts
• Supports Claude Code installed on Windows, macOS, and Linux, using npm, yarn, pnpm, bun, Homebrew, nvm, fnm, n, volta, nvs, and nodenv, or a custom location
• Style the user messages in the chat history beyond the default plain gray text
• Remove the ASCII border from the input box

tweakcc also

• Restores the token counter and elapsed time metric that were shown during generation before Claude Code 1.0.83
• Fixes a bug where the spinner animation is frozen if you have the CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_NONESSENTIAL_TRAFFIC environment variable set (#46)
• Allows you to change the context limit used with models from custom Anthropic-compatible APIs with a new environment variable, CLAUDE_CODE_CONTEXT_LIMIT

Additionally, we're working on features that will allow you to

• Pick from over 70+ spinning/thinking animations from cli-spinners
• Apply custom styling to the markdown elements in Claude's responses like code, bold, headers, etc
• Customize the shimmering effect on the thinking verb: disable it; change its speed, width, and colors

Run without installation:

$ npx tweakcc

# Or use pnpm:
$ pnpm dlx tweakcc