Show HN: Orc-work-notify – Claude Code plugin with orc voice alerts

A developer released orc-work-notify, a free MIT-licensed Claude Code plugin that plays orc voice clips on three events: a prompt submission, a request for user attention, and task completion. The plugin installs via `claude plugin marketplace add vagkaratzas/orc-work-notify` and ships three CC0 sounds from John Carroll's Orc Voice Pack, with user-supplied .wav files or folders overriding the bundled clips at the project or global level.

A Claude Code https://code.claude.com plugin that plays a sound on three events, so you can go make tea and come back when it's time: | Event | Hook | Sound file | |---|---|---| | You send a prompt | UserPromptSubmit | submit.wav | | Claude needs you a question, a permission prompt, idle waiting | PreToolUse on AskUserQuestion , Notification | attention.wav | | Claude finished the task | Stop | stop.wav | Sounds play in the background, so they never slow Claude down. claude plugin marketplace add vagkaratzas/orc-work-notify claude plugin install orc-work-notify@orc-work-notify Then restart Claude Code or run /reload-plugins . It ships with three orc clips from John Carroll's free Orc Voice Pack https://johncarroll.itch.io/orc-voice-pack CC0, public domain : | Event | File | From the pack | |---|---|---| | submit | sounds/submit.wav | yes1.wav | | attention | sounds/attention.wav | yescommand.wav | | stop | sounds/stop.wav | satisfied1.wav | Thanks, John @jhncrrll https://x.com/jhncrrll Prefer a different orc? Any orc. That orc. Drop your own .wav files in, named after the event; the most specific wins: | Where | Applies to | |---|---| | ~/.claude/sounds/{submit,attention,stop}.wav | every project | | <project /.claude/sounds/{submit,attention,stop}.wav | that project only | They live outside the plugin, so updates never overwrite them, and copyrighted clips you own a copy of stay on your machine instead of in this repo. Skip a file to keep the bundled one. Each event can also be a folder of .wav files, and one is picked at random every time: | Where | Applies to | |---|---| | ~/.claude/sounds/{submit,attention,stop}/ .wav | every project | | <project /.claude/sounds/{submit,attention,stop}/ .wav | that project only | At each level a folder beats a single .wav of the same name, and the most specific level still wins. An empty folder is ignored, and only lowercase .wav files count clip.WAV is skipped . Any non-empty ~/.claude/orc-work-notify.muted silences it: echo 1 ~/.claude/orc-work-notify.muted mute : ~/.claude/orc-work-notify.muted unmute Tries afplay macOS , pw-play , paplay , ffplay , aplay , then powershell.exe Windows, via Git Bash in that order, falling through when one is missing or fails. Code: MIT. Bundled sounds: CC0 see Sounds sounds .