dsh-pets

After a Codex session kicks off, status feedback tends to hide in logs or a terminal, far from your eyes. dsh-pets projects the current session phase—thinking, executing, reviewing, done, blocked, idle—onto a small, transparent, draggable desk pet that acts each state out through CSS sprite-sheet animation, giving your workspace a quiet, real-time heartbeat.

It speaks the codex-pets package format end-to-end (pet.json plus spritesheet.webp), so any V1 or V2 sprite pet works out of the box. The node side serves a local pets directory under a same-origin /ui-pets path—no CDN, no CORS, fully offline; the browser side renders purely from those same-origin assets with zero extra network overhead. A dedicated settings panel offers character cards with live animation previews and per-state speech-bubble overrides; the chosen character, bubble text, and drag position all persist in localStorage and survive a refresh.

The plugin merely projects a session snapshot into a floating overlay: it generates no prompt content, writes no session events, and leaves your KV Cache untouched. It is well suited to developers who want a quiet companion alongside their work, care about zero additional network cost, and already live in the codex-pets ecosystem.