Show HN: A Claude Code plugin that plays a song and shows a startup card

A Claude Code plugin that plays a few seconds of a random song every time you start Claude Code.

• Rotates through genres, one per session: pop → hip hop → retro hits → pop …
• For each one, it searches the iTunes Search API (free, no key) and plays a random song from thetop 10 results.
• Shows a startup card above the prompt while it plays:
  • Coding streak : days in a row you've started Claude Code
  • Repo status : branch, changed files, ahead/behind, last commit
  • On this day : one event fromWikipedia's on-this-day feed (grim ones skipped)
• The card goes away when the song ends. Press Esc at an empty prompt to stop it early./today opens the card again.
• Uses zero tokens : no model call, just two web requests, two localgit commands and an audio clip.

Audio is Apple's official 30-second preview of each track; nothing is downloaded or stored.

/plugin install startup-song --marketplace heyyviv/claude-boot-beats

Or try it from a local copy:

claude --plugin-dir ./claude-startup-song

Change these in /config:

• macOS (playback uses afplay ). On Linux/Windows the plugin stays silent.
• Internet at startup. Offline, it simply plays nothing.