pixtuoid: AI coding agents get a pixel-art office in your terminal

pixtuoid is an open-source tool that renders terminal-based AI coding agents — Claude Code, Codex CLI, Antigravity and others — as pixel-art characters working at desks in a shared virtual office. Each agent session gets its own desk: typing while active, raising a question mark when it needs input, and dozing off once finished, replacing the need to alt-tab between terminal windows to check agent status.

Built in Rust, pixtuoid captures agent events through a non-blocking hook shim (a 200ms write to a Unix socket) and JSONL transcript watching, feeding both into a single reducer that updates office state for rendering. It adds practical monitoring touches like per-tool color coding on each desk's monitor, token-usage meters, multi-floor layouts for larger agent fleets, and six built-in visual themes, alongside a lofi soundtrack synthesized entirely in code.

The tool runs fully local with no network calls or telemetry, reading agent transcripts read-only. Its hook shim is designed to always exit 0, ensuring a stalled dashboard can never block an agent's execution. Released under MIT, pixtuoid supports around ten agent CLIs plus an OpenClaw gateway integration, and installs via Homebrew, npm, Cargo, or prebuilt binaries.