Show HN: Claudoro, Pomodoro timer embedded in the Claude Code statusline

Show HN: Claudoro, Pomodoro timer embedded in the Claude Code statusline(github.com)

19 points by emson 1 day ago | 15 comments

3 weeks ago I had a nasty accident and fractured my vertebrae. As I lay in bed I needed something to take my mind off it all so built "Claudoro".

Claudoro is a pomodoro timer built right into the Claude Code status line, as well as can be directly controlled from Claude Code and the CLI. A few years ago I built "pymodoro" which was great, but recently I felt I needed something embedded in the tools I actually use, and I also wanted something that was flexible, and I could tweak and nudge.

Anyway I hope it is useful to you, and I'd love some feedback on how to improve it.

Thank you...!

PS this is a write up all about how it works etc: https://benemson.com/blog/agents/claudoro-pomodoro-timer-cla...

murats 13 minutes ago |

I like this. Small tools inside the workflow feel much more useful than separate productivity apps I have to remember to open.

emson 9 minutes ago | |

Me too. Also it’s good to get decent reports that can be used for other things. For example the logs help me fill in my time sheets. Also it forces me to take breaks

fellowmartian 58 minutes ago |

From the title I thought it’d be a timer for the agent itself, so it doesn’t waste time on endless thinking loops, etc.

emson 33 minutes ago | |

Oh that’s an idea? Could use hooks or something?

marcuskaz 41 minutes ago |

Great idea! I just created one for Pi

https://github.com/mkaz/pi-modoro

emson 34 minutes ago | |

Fantastic. I think these small productivity tools embedded in harnesses is pretty powerful. I especially like that you can get the AI to use it and also just pop into the CLI. Also nice to generate useful web dashboards etc

freedomben 38 minutes ago |

I recently had a nasty accident too and snapped my collar bone, broken tibia, and 6 broken ribs, so I can absolutely relate. Claude Code was there for me in a big way as well :-)

It's a long road to recovery. I'm 5 months in and still in a lot of pain, but it does (slowly) get better. Hope you're spirits stay up!

emson 12 minutes ago | |

Thanks for sharing. I was stuck in a Greek hospital for 8 days with 2 fractured vertebrae, before I could get home. It’s easy to get into a spiral, but putting your mind to build something really helps. I do hope your ribs and collar bone is getting better? I’ve been lucky, as it will heal but could have been really bad. Phew!

felooboolooomba 2 hours ago |

Also for tmux (which I always run claude inside)

https://github.com/olimorris/tmux-pomodoro-plus

emson 1 hour ago | |

Ooo that's cool thank you. That's really useful! My other CLI project was: https://github.com/emson/pymodoro

Vaslo 29 minutes ago |

Great idea and I’ll definitely try it but all those flags needed to run the startup command scare me lol

emson 16 minutes ago | |

It has sensible defaults just do /pomo start

It’s only if you want to customise it. Also CC will do it for you. It’s very agent friendly

tiahura 40 minutes ago |

Side note, many windows people still don't know about psmux https://github.com/psmux/psmux

emson 30 minutes ago | |

Ah nice thanks. Love tmux, incidentally I came across this the other day as an alternative to Ghostty: https://supacode.sh/

OttoVonBizark 35 minutes ago |

tool is great by your readme is pure unreadable ai slop - try to naturalise it a bit

emson 27 minutes ago | |

Mmm apols. You’d think I’d have learned my lesson by now, but it’s just so seductive to have it write for you. I got burned with this very HN post for doing just that, but they kindly let me rewrite it. Will tweak it. Thanks for the feedback!