Claude is just Mr. Meeseeks

Overview

"I'm Mr. Meeseeks! Look at me!" A Claude Code 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.

Installation

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.

Requirements

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).

Usage

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

How It Works

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:

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.

Configuration

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 of every turn - 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."

Customizing Clips

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 Philosophy

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.

Credits and Legal

🔵 Inspired by and audio sourced from the 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) 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.