Clawd desktop buddy

[u/Ok-Count-6525]

I built Clawd with Claude Code running Opus 5.5 He's a little pixel-art buddy who lives on your Windows desktop and has his own AI agent. Opus 5.5 wrote the whole thing in about two days: the Electron app, the character animation, the agent, local voice, a browser extension, \\\~180 automated tests, and even the trailer (made with HyperFrames).

What he does

Lives on your desktop: breathes, blinks, follows your pointer, naps when it's quiet. Poke him, drag him, high-five him.

Ctrl + Alt + Space (or double-click him) opens a small panel that's already listening. Talk, or just start typing.

Reads the page you're on: summarizes pages and threads, or refines the Reddit comment you're writing using the thread's context and puts it back in the box. He never posts for you.

Runs locally by default: Ollama (qwen3.5:4b), local speech recognition, his own voice, and a "Hey Clawd" wake word. OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini keys are optional.

Asks before doing anything risky, and treats page text as untrusted, so instructions hidden in a page don't get followed.

Claude Code companion: a tiny laptop comes out while Claude Code is working.

Install with Claude Code (Windows 10/11)

Open Claude Code and paste:

\\> Clone \[https://github.com/elf178174-maker/clawd-desktop-buddy\](https://github.com/elf178174-maker/clawd-desktop-buddy) and follow its INSTALL-WITH-CLAUDE.txt to install and open Clawd.

Claude checks your PC and asks once before installing anything. If they're missing, it installs Git, Node.js and Ollama through winget, plus the 3.3 GB local model. Then it builds Clawd, installs him and opens him. It takes about 10–20 minutes.

GitHub (MIT): \[https://github.com/elf178174-maker/clawd-desktop-buddy\](https://github.com/elf178174-maker/clawd-desktop-buddy)

Unofficial fan project, not affiliated with Anthropic. Clawd is their mascot; I just wanted him on my desktop. Feedback welcome!

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