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- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/.agents/plugins/marketplace.json +20 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json +15 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/.claude-plugin/plugin.json +15 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/.gitignore +6 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/LICENSE +21 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/PKG-INFO +265 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/README.md +250 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/commands/meanwhile-build.md +24 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/hooks/codex-hooks.json +26 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/hooks/hooks.json +26 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/hooks/meanwhile-state.sh +103 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/plugin.json +30 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/pyproject.toml +54 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/src/meanwhile/__init__.py +1 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/src/meanwhile/agents.py +314 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/src/meanwhile/app.py +187 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/src/meanwhile/app.tcss +6 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/src/meanwhile/build_prompt.md +73 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/src/meanwhile/cli.py +223 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/src/meanwhile/game.py +70 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/src/meanwhile/hooks_cli.py +308 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/src/meanwhile/meanwhile-state.sh +103 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/src/meanwhile/pool.py +101 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/src/meanwhile/repo.py +30 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/src/meanwhile/scores.py +44 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/src/meanwhile/state.py +66 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/src/meanwhile/strings.py +42 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/tests/test_agents.py +287 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/tests/test_app.py +454 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/tests/test_cli.py +173 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/tests/test_game.py +86 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/tests/test_hooks_cli.py +539 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/tests/test_plugin_files.py +212 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/tests/test_pool.py +112 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/tests/test_repo.py +51 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/tests/test_scores.py +32 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/tests/test_state.py +394 -0
- meanwhile_cli-0.1.0/tests/test_strings.py +27 -0
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"name": "Ismail Bayram"
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"license": "MIT",
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MIT License
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Copyright (c) 2026 Ismail Bayram
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Name: meanwhile-cli
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Version: 0.1.0
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Summary: Play a quiz about your own repository while your coding agent works
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Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/ismailbayram/meanwhile
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Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/ismailbayram/meanwhile
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License: MIT
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Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
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# meanwhile
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Claude Code takes a while on real tasks — often ten or fifteen minutes. During
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that wait, attention drifts: a browser tab, a chat, something unrelated. When
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the diff finally lands, you no longer hold the task in your head, and the
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review that follows is slower and shallower than it should be. meanwhile fills
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that wait with a quiz built entirely from your own repository, so that
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instead of drifting away you stay warmed up on the code you're about to
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review. It works the same way alongside Codex, Cursor and OpenCode.
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## Install
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### Claude Code
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meanwhile is a Claude Code plugin, and this repository is also its own
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marketplace (`.claude-plugin/marketplace.json`). Add it as a marketplace,
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/plugin marketplace add ismailbayram/meanwhile
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install the `meanwhile` command itself. That's a separate, ordinary Python
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then install `meanwhile` from the Plugins Directory. Codex does not run a
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the plugin; the same script, packaged inside the wheel and copied to
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`~/.meanwhile/meanwhile-state.sh`, for `hooks install`), fired on the moment
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Claude Code and Codex, `beforeSubmitPrompt`/`stop` for Cursor, and the
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`session.status` event for OpenCode, whose plugin file does nothing but
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call the same script. They write nothing but a
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`{"status": "busy"|"idle", "ts": ..., "agent": ...}` file under
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`~/.meanwhile/state/`, keyed by a hash of the directory the agent was
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started in (that is what `CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR` holds for Claude Code — not
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necessarily the git root, which is why the TUI must be launched from the
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same directory). No interpreter, no network, no measurable delay added to
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your prompt.
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that state file and renders cards from the pool. It finds
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parses no source code at play time — it only reads the two JSON files
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above.
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