Claude is just Mr. Meeseeks

A developer released a Claude Code plugin that plays Mr. Meeseeks voice lines from the show Rick and Morty when the AI assistant is waiting for user input or approval, with the sounds triggered only during idle prompts and permission prompts to avoid interrupting autonomous work.

"I'm Mr. Meeseeks Look at me " A Claude Code https://code.claude.com plugin that plays a Mr. Meeseeks voice line whenever Claude is genuinely waiting on you . When Claude finishes and is waiting for your next prompt → a satisfied/finished clip from audio/done/ "All done " , "Ooh yeah " , "Yes siree " … . When Claude needs your approval → an asking/coaching clip from audio/asking/ "Can you help me?" , "You mind if we get back to the task?" … . Both are driven by the Notification event, filtered by notification type so it fires only when you're actually needed. Autonomous work — auto-accept/bypass-permissions runs, background-agent and subagent activity, auth refreshes — stays silent . Clips are random within the category, and playback is detached and non-blocking, so a long line never freezes your prompt. This repository is both the plugin and its own marketplace. /plugin marketplace add thephw/claude-meseeks /plugin install mr-meeseeks@claude-meseeks Or, from a local clone: /plugin marketplace add /path/to/claude-meseeks /plugin install mr-meeseeks@claude-meseeks Restart or reload Claude Code and finish a turn — you should hear Meeseeks. An audio player on your PATH . The tool auto-detects, in order: afplay macOS, built in → ffplay → mpg123 → paplay → aplay → Windows PowerShell Media.SoundPlayer . On macOS nothing extra is needed. On Linux, install ffmpeg for ffplay or mpg123 . No Go toolchain is required to use the plugin — prebuilt binaries ship in bin/ . Go is only needed to rebuild them see below . Playback is handled by a small Go program, meeseeks , with the clips embedded directly in the binary. You can drive it by hand too: meeseeks play random "done" clip, detached meeseeks play asking random "asking" clip meeseeks play feedback --wait a prompt-submit clip, blocking until it finishes meeseeks play --clip "ALL DONE" a specific clip by name meeseeks list all list every embedded clip hooks/hooks.json registers Notification and UserPromptSubmit hooks that both run scripts/play.sh notify . That launcher execs the prebuilt bin/meeseeks-<os -<arch for your platform falling back to go build from source if there's no matching binary, or staying silent if neither is available , passing the event's JSON through on stdin. meeseeks notify reads that JSON and looks at hook event name and notification type : | Event | Result | |---|---| UserPromptSubmit you just sent Claude a prompt | random feedback | Notification + idle prompt Claude done, your turn | random done | Notification + permission prompt needs approval | random asking | anything else agent completed , auth success , … | silence | The chosen clip is extracted from the embedded audio to a cache dir and handed to a system player in a detached process. Every path exits 0, so the hook never blocks or errors your session. Each category can be silenced independently via the plugin's config options enableDone / enableAsking / enableFeedback — Claude Code prompts for these when you enable the plugin, and passes them to the hook as CLAUDE PLUGIN OPTION env vars. They default to on; only automatic hook playback is gated manual meeseeks play always plays . Why not the Stop hook? Stop fires at the end ofeveryturn — including auto-continuations — so it plays sounds when you aren't actually being waited on. The event-type filter is the reliable signal for "it's your turn." Clips live under audio/ , sorted into three folders that map to behavior: audio/done/ — played when Claude finishes and it's your turn idle prompt . audio/asking/ — played on permission/input prompts. audio/feedback/ — played every time you submit a prompt to Claude. To change what plays, move .mp3 files between the folders or drop your own in, then rebuild the binaries so the new clips are re-embedded: ./scripts/build.sh regenerates bin/ for all platforms Two constraints: filenames must end in .mp3 , and — because of a go:embed restriction — must not contain apostrophes ' . The theme isn't just a joke — it's a working philosophy. A Mr. Meeseeks is summoned to accomplish one task . It exists only until that task is done, and then it poofs out of existence, satisfied. Give a Meeseeks a single, concrete goal "help me finish this putt" and it's cheerful and effective. Give it a vague or unbounded one, or keep it alive long past its purpose, and things degrade fast — "existence is pain, Jerry " — until you get a room full of increasingly unhinged Meeseeks. A Claude Code session works best the same way: Summon it for one goal. A session scoped to a single, well-defined objective — "add this endpoint", "fix this failing test", "write this plugin" — is focused and sharp, the same way a fresh Meeseeks is. Let it finish, then let it go. When the goal is met, end the session. Start a new one for the next task. A fresh session with a clean context beats a stale one every time. Beware the long-lived session. Dragging one conversation across many unrelated goals is how you get the Meeseeks box problem: context piles up, focus drifts, earlier tangents pollute later work, and quality slides. Long ≠ productive. So: treat each session like a Meeseeks. One purpose. Accomplish it. Poof. 🔵 Inspired by and audio sourced from the Mr. Meeseeks Soundboard https://jayuzumi.com/mr-meeseeks-soundboard at jayuzumi.com. Thanks for the clips 🔵 The voice clips are from Rick and Morty via the jayuzumi.com Mr. Meeseeks Soundboard https://jayuzumi.com/mr-meeseeks-soundboard and are included here for personal, non-commercial fun. They are the property of their respective rights holders. Please consider those rights before redistributing this plugin publicly or swap in your own audio.