ccsidekick 1.6.4 → 1.7.0

package/README.md

@@ -1,9 +1,14 @@
 # ccsidekick
 
-A Claude Code status line with an animated, reactive character and a full widget layer. It reads
-from disk, so there is no Claude API call and no token spend on the render path. The only network is
-an optional weekly currency-rate refresh and an optional account-usage lookup, both off the render
-path and disableable.
+**Claude Code status line with a reactive ASCII character, 33 widgets, and 75+ themes.**
+
+![Animated reel cycling through ccsidekick's character packs (Batman, Spider-Man, Yoda, and more), each an ASCII figure in its own theme beside a live Claude Code status line of git, cost, context, and usage with an in-character comment](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/krayong/ccsidekick/main/assets/characters.gif)
+
+The character notices what Claude is doing (tests passing, builds breaking, commits landing, a
+struggle and then a recovery) and comments in character. Everything it reads comes off disk, so
+there is no Claude API call and no token spend on the render path. The only network is an optional
+weekly currency-rate refresh and an optional account-usage lookup, both off the render path and
+disableable.
 
 ```bash
 npx ccsidekick
@@ -14,6 +19,48 @@ wizard (character, theme, comments), a later run opens the full dashboard. Eithe
 Claude config dir and wires the status line and the tool-call hooks into your `settings.json`.
 Remove it with `npx ccsidekick uninstall`.
 
+New characters and widgets land regularly.
+[Releases](https://github.com/krayong/ccsidekick/releases) lists what has shipped; set the repo's
+Watch menu to Releases to hear about the next one.
+
+## Characters
+
+Eighteen packs ship bundled with the engine, so a fresh install has every one of them. There is no
+download step and no network call to pick a character. Fixed mode pins one; random mode rotates a
+roster and picks per session.
+
+Barbie, Batman, Ben 10, Darth Vader, Deadpool, Gandalf, Harry Potter, Hello Kitty, Iron Man, James
+Bond, Joker, Naruto, Pikachu, Sherlock Holmes, Shin-chan, Spider-Man, Superman, Yoda.
+
+Each pack also registers its own theme, so every character you install adds a palette to the 75+
+built-in ones. See them animated at [ccsidekick.krayong.com](https://ccsidekick.krayong.com).
+
+## Author your own character
+
+A pack is data, not code: one `pack.json` holding a single ASCII figure, a message library, a theme,
+and its spinner verbs. Nothing to compile, no plugin API. If your favourite character is missing,
+add it.
+
+What a pack needs:
+
+- **One figure**, at most 9 rows by 25 columns, sourced through the `ascii-art` image-to-ASCII skill
+  rather than drawn freehand, crediting the original artist in `attribution`.
+- **A voice**: the message library plus at least 25 in-character spinner verbs.
+- **A theme** (optional), which then becomes selectable by every user rather than only yours.
+
+The authoring kit width-normalizes the figure, checks coverage and legibility, and generates the
+pack's README with a live statusline preview in its own theme.
+`bun run pack:lint packages/packs/<name>` gates all of it before you open a pull request.
+
+Start at
+[CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/krayong/ccsidekick/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#contributing-a-character-pack).
+The full contract lives in the `pack-author` skill at
+[`.claude/skills/pack-author`](https://github.com/krayong/ccsidekick/blob/main/.claude/skills/pack-author),
+which Claude Code picks up in a clone of this repo, so you can just ask it to author a pack.
+
+Would rather just ask? Open a
+[character request](https://github.com/krayong/ccsidekick/issues/new?template=character_request.yml).
+
 ## Non-interactive setup (for scripts and AI agents)
 
 No TTY required. `npx ccsidekick setup` configures and wires everything from flags, so an agent can

package/dist/ccsidekick-render.js

@@ -245,18 +245,7 @@ var pricing_default = [
     cache_write_1h: 4,
     cache_read: 0.2,
     batch_input: 1,
-    batch_output: 5,
-    until: "2026-09-01"
-  },
-  {
-    key: "claude-sonnet-5",
-    input: 3,
-    output: 15,
-    cache_write_5m: 3.75,
-    cache_write_1h: 6,
-    cache_read: 0.3,
-    batch_input: 1.5,
-    batch_output: 7.5
+    batch_output: 5
   },
   {
     key: "claude-sonnet-4-6",

package/dist/ccsidekick.js

@@ -2662,18 +2662,7 @@ var init_pricing = __esm(() => {
       cache_write_1h: 4,
       cache_read: 0.2,
       batch_input: 1,
-      batch_output: 5,
-      until: "2026-09-01"
-    },
-    {
-      key: "claude-sonnet-5",
-      input: 3,
-      output: 15,
-      cache_write_5m: 3.75,
-      cache_write_1h: 6,
-      cache_read: 0.3,
-      batch_input: 1.5,
-      batch_output: 7.5
+      batch_output: 5
     },
     {
       key: "claude-sonnet-4-6",

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "ccsidekick",
-  "version": "1.6.4",
+  "version": "1.7.0",
   "type": "module",
   "sideEffects": false,
   "exports": {