Your AI tokens feed a tiny friend.

Tokengochi is a desktop pet that lives on your screen and stays happy on the tokens you burn in Claude Code. Every 20,000 tokens = 1 snack. No accounts, no server. Just a hungry pixel buddy.

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Free & open source · MIT · macOS / Windows / Linux

How the feeding loop works

Tokengochi turns normal coding activity into a gentle desktop-pet routine: code, earn snacks, keep the little buddy growing.

  1. 01

    You code.

    Use Claude Code like you already do. Tokengochi tails your local session logs. Nothing leaves your machine.

  2. 02

    Tokens become food.

    Every 20,000 weighted tokens fills the food meter and drops a snack on your screen.

  3. 03

    Your pet thrives.

    It runs over, eats, gains XP, and evolves over days and weeks. Miss a day? It gets hungry, not dead.

Local-firstNo accountsDaily caps stop wasteful burning

Lovable on top, careful underneath

Tokengochi is a tiny pet with serious boundaries: local by default, earned progression, and a core loop that stays out of your way.

It actually lives on your screen

It wanders screen edges and your taskbar, chases food, idles, and sleeps when you do.

Progression that respects your time

Streaks, evolution stages, cosmetics, and collection albums are earned in-app. No real-money purchases.

0 calls

Local-first

The core loop tails local Claude Code logs and keeps state on your machine.

3 OS

Cross-platform

Built for macOS, Windows, and Ubuntu, with X11 first and Wayland best-effort.

<100 MB

Near-zero footprint

Designed for negligible idle CPU, so the pet can stay ambient all day.

Plugins

Extensible

Claude Code is first, with provider plugins planned for other LLM CLIs and tools.

Try the feeding loop

Run a tiny agent session, watch tokens climb, and see one snack drop at the 20,000-token mark.

$

Agent is idle. Start a prompt to feed the token meter.

Tokens0 / 20,000

This is the actual pet. In the real app, local Claude Code usage fills the meter instead of this simulation.

Latest release

Bring the hungry little desk friend home.

Download Tokengochi from GitHub Releases. The installer link works without JavaScript; your browser can make it OS-specific when it can identify your platform.

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Your OS will act suspicious. That's expected.

MVP builds are unsigned, so first launch has one extra trust step. After that, Tokengochi opens normally.

macOS

Gatekeeper blocks the app: "cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified". Right-click the app, choose Open, then choose Open again in the dialog. If that does not work, run the command below in Terminal.

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Tokengochi.app
Windows

SmartScreen shows "Windows protected your PC". Click More info, then Run anyway.

Linux

There is no OS-level warning. Mark the AppImage executable before running it.

chmod +x Tokengochi_x.y.z_amd64.AppImage

Free & open source. If it made your terminal less lonelysupport Tokengochi on Ko-fi.