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Published 1 month ago • verified publisher icon anthropics

:rocket: Introducing tweakcc - customize your Claude Code installation

Open bl-ue opened this issue 7 months ago • 3 comments

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

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.

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

bl-ue avatar Jul 25 '25 17:07 bl-ue

this would be so cool

mikeycantcode avatar Oct 10 '25 01:10 mikeycantcode

this issue is an ad for tweakcc, which is fine - I suggest implementing tweakcc directly into Claude Code.

Users should be able to fully customize their CC experience.

For instance: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/12375

PaulRBerg avatar Dec 03 '25 20:12 PaulRBerg

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github-actions[bot] avatar Jan 04 '26 10:01 github-actions[bot]

Keep it open.

bl-ue avatar Jan 27 '26 20:01 bl-ue