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</div> <div align="center"> <a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=pablodelucca.pixel-agents">🛒 VS Code Marketplace</a> • <a href="https://open-vsx.org/extension/pablodelucca/pixel-agents">🛒 Open VSX</a> • <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/pixel-agents">📦 npm</a> • <a href="https://discord.gg/Yk7jXebv9H">👾 Discord</a> • <a href="https://github.com/pixel-agents-hq/pixel-agents/discussions">💬 Discussions</a> • <a href="CONTRIBUTING.md">🤝 Contributing</a> • <a href="CHANGELOG.md">📋 Changelog</a> </div> <br/>

Pixel Agents turns the AI coding agents running in your terminals into animated pixel-art characters working in a tiny office. They walk to their desks, sit down, type when they're editing files, read when they're searching, and flag you visually when they're stuck waiting for input.

It ships in two forms from the same codebase:

• VS Code extension — VS Code Marketplace and Open VSX. Agents launch into VS Code terminals; characters render in the panel area.
• Standalone CLI — npx pixel-agents starts a local server and serves the same office as a browser app, useful for tmux, remote, and non-VS Code workflows.

The architecture is fully agent-agnostic and editor-agnostic: a typed HookProvider interface defines the integration boundary so adding a new AI tool is a single subdirectory of code. Claude Code is the reference implementation today; Codex, Gemini, Cursor, and others are on the roadmap.

Features

• One agent, one character — every Claude Code terminal gets its own animated character
• Live activity tracking — characters animate based on what the agent is actually doing (writing, reading, running commands)
• Office layout editor — design your office with floors, walls, and furniture using a built-in editor
• Speech bubbles — visual indicators when an agent is waiting for input or awaiting permission
• Sound notifications — optional chimes when an agent finishes its turn or requests permission
• Sub-agents and Agent Teams — see ephemeral sub-agents and persistent Claude teammates as separate characters, including team roles and lifecycle changes
• Persistent layouts — your office design is saved and shared across VS Code windows
• Shared layout and assets — import/export layouts and load external character, pet, and furniture packs
• Areas — paint named areas onto the office, map workspace folders to them, and new agents sit inside the areas mapped to their folder
• Diverse characters — 6 diverse characters. These are based on the amazing work of JIK-A-4, Metro City.

<p align="center"> <img src="https://github.com/pixel-agents-hq/pixel-agents/raw/HEAD/webview-ui/public/characters.png" alt="Pixel Agents characters" width="320" height="72" style="image-rendering: pixelated;"> </p>

Where This Is Going

The vision is: play a game, build a product. Two goals follow from it: to build a familiar, intuitive interface for running and orchestrating a lot of agents; and to make the hours you spend doing it feel less like administration and more like play.

Roughly three stages get there:

1. Everywhere, with everything. Today it's Claude Code in VS Code or the browser. It should be whatever agent you run, wherever you work. A new CLI is a subdirectory, not a rewrite — this is where help is most useful right now.
2. Actually a game. Health bars for rate limits and token budgets. Scores for whatever you care about. Furniture that does things. Offices you open like save files, one per project.
3. Expand the orchestration frontier. Orchestrator characters. Form a team by dragging a box around them. Hand work between agents. Point them at a board and let them pick up tasks themselves.

Most of this is still ahead. See Issues and Discussions for what's open, and CONTRIBUTING.md to jump in.

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