Eldritch Thinking

Claude is not thinking. Claude is listening to the angles between tokens.

A tiny Lovecraftian status-message pack for AI apps, CLIs, dashboards, browser snippets, and agent UIs.

Use it anywhere you would otherwise show Thinking..., Loading..., or the emotionally vacant spinner text that haunts modern software.

Install

npm install eldritch-thinking

Or run it directly:

npx eldritch-thinking

CLI

npx eldritch-thinking
npx eldritch-thinking --pack academic
npx eldritch-thinking --pack terminal --subject daemon
npx eldritch-thinking --json
npx eldritch-thinking --list

Example output:

Claude is bargaining with the elder logits...

JSON output:

{"pack":"eldritch","text":"Claude is lowering a lantern into the vector abyss..."}

Node API

import { eldritchThinking, getStatus, listPacks } from "eldritch-thinking";

console.log(eldritchThinking());
console.log(eldritchThinking({ pack: "academic" }));
console.log(getStatus({ pack: "terminal", subject: "daemon" }));
console.log(listPacks());

Packs

| Pack | Mood | |---|---| | mild | Atmospheric but still office-safe | | eldritch | Default cosmic-horror loading text | | unhinged | Louder, stranger, and less production-serious | | academic | Research, papers, experiments, and cursed peer review | | terminal | CLIs, daemons, logs, and late-night deploys | | corporate-occult | Roadmaps, stakeholders, and ritualized alignment | | agentic | Tool calls, planners, executors, and haunted DAGs |

Browser snippet

<script type="module">
  import { eldritchThinking } from "https://esm.sh/eldritch-thinking";

  document.querySelector("#status").textContent = eldritchThinking({
    pack: "agentic",
    subject: "the agent"
  });
</script>

Publishing

This package is prepared for npm publishing with GitHub Actions provenance. Configure npm trusted publishing for this repository before cutting the first release.

npm test
npm pack --dry-run

License

MIT