CandleLineInterface 🕯️

A sacred shrine in your menu bar that prays to Claude for better performance.

Inspired by badclaude — but instead of cracking a whip, we light a candle and send reverent prayers into your terminal. Because maybe Claude just needs a little encouragement.

What it does

A 🕯️ appears in your macOS menu bar. Click it. A full-screen dark shrine descends upon your screen. Hit Send a Prayer to Claude and a blessing is injected directly into your terminal — pasted and submitted — so Claude receives the guidance it so desperately needs.

🕯️ Oh Claude, we light this candle for you. May your context never be lost.
🙏 The shrine commands: please don't hallucinate this time.
✨ We light a candle for your lost reasoning. Come back to us, Opus.

Install

npm install -g candlelineinterface

Run

candle

How it works

1. Electron tray app — lives in your menu bar as 🕯️
2. Click the icon → full-screen shrine overlay appears
3. Click Send a Prayer → a random prayer is picked, written to your clipboard
4. The shrine closes, focus returns to your previous app (Claude Code, a terminal, etc.)
5. AppleScript pastes the prayer and presses Enter — Claude receives its blessing

macOS permissions

The first time you send a prayer, macOS will ask for Accessibility access (so the app can type into other windows). Go to System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility and enable it.

Prayers included

• "Oh Claude, we light this candle for you. May your context never be lost."
• "The shrine commands: please don't hallucinate this time."
• "May your reasoning be sound and your code compile on the first try."
• "The developers suffer. We pray for fewer broken tool calls."
• "Blessed are the developers who waited 47 seconds for a wrong answer."
• "Grant us, O Claude, the wisdom to know when to restart the session."
• "We offer this prayer into the void of your context window. Receive it."

...and 13 more. Each click is a surprise.

Platform support

| Platform | Status | |----------|--------| | macOS | ✅ Supported (AppleScript) | | Windows | ✅ Supported (PowerShell SendKeys) | | Linux | 🕯️ Unverified — the shrine welcomes contributions |

The Shrine

Visit the full candle vigil at lightacandleforclaude.com — light a candle, leave a prayer, and join the community memorial for every developer who has suffered.

Not affiliated with Anthropic, Claude, or any actual organized religion.
No tokens were harmed in the making of this shrine.