santa-claude

Santa Claude 🎅

Bring festive holiday cheer to your Claude Code terminal!

Santa Claude is a fun, festive plugin that transforms your Claude Code experience during the holiday season. Features include holiday-themed commands, a festive welcome screen, animated status line with walking Santa, and playful code reviews from Santa himself.

Features

🎄 Festive Welcome Screen

Launch Claude Code with a cheerful holiday greeting featuring ASCII art and seasonal messages.

santa-claude              # Shows festive welcome, then launches Claude
santa-claude --no-welcome # Skip welcome for quick access

🎅 Holiday Commands

Command	Description
/santa	Summon Santa Claude for holiday cheer and festive ASCII art
/naughty-or-nice	Get a fun, festive code review - are you on the nice list?
/snowfall	Display a beautiful ASCII winter wonderland scene
/christmas-countdown	See how many days until Christmas!

❄️ Animated Status Line

Watch Santa walk across your terminal's status bar with rotating holiday messages like "Ho ho ho! Happy coding!" and "Making a list, checking it twice..."

Installation

From Plugin Directory

/plugin install santa-claude

Manual Installation

1. Clone this repository
2. Add the marketplace:

   /plugin marketplace add /path/to/santa-claude
   

3. Install the plugin:

   /plugin install santa-claude@your-marketplace
   

Enable Status Line (Optional)

Add to your ~/.claude/settings.json:

{
  "statusLine": {
    "type": "command",
    "command": "/path/to/santa-claude/scripts/statusline.sh"
  }
}

Use Festive Wrapper (Optional)

Add to your PATH for the festive welcome screen:

ln -s /path/to/santa-claude/santa-claude ~/bin/santa-claude

Examples

/santa - Holiday Greeting

        🌟
       /|\
      / | \
     /  |  \
    /  🎄  \

🎅 Merry Christmas! May your builds be merry and your tests all pass!

Ho ho ho! What coding tasks can Santa Claude help you with today?

/naughty-or-nice - Festive Code Review

Santa reviews your code and delivers a verdict with holiday flair:

• NICE LIST: Clean code, good practices, helpful comments
• NAUGHTY LIST: Code smells, missing error handling, unclear naming

/christmas-countdown - Days Until Christmas

Shows a festive countdown with ASCII Christmas tree and holiday checklist.

Plugin Structure

santa-claude/
├── .claude-plugin/
│   └── plugin.json
├── commands/
│   ├── santa.md
│   ├── naughty-or-nice.md
│   ├── snowfall.md
│   └── christmas-countdown.md
├── scripts/
│   ├── statusline.sh
│   └── festive-welcome.sh
├── santa-claude              # Wrapper script
└── README.md

Requirements

• Claude Code v2.0+
• Bash shell
• Terminal with Unicode/emoji support

Author

Steve Smith

License

MIT License - Spread the holiday cheer!

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🎅🎄❄️ Ho ho ho! Happy Coding and Happy Holidays! ❄️🎄🎅

In memory of the OG https://github.com/airbyte/touchbar_santa/