Eldritch Thinking

Claude is not thinking. Claude is listening to the angles between tokens.

A tiny Lovecraftian status-message pack for AI apps, CLIs, dashboards, browser snippets, and agent UIs.

Use it anywhere you would otherwise show Thinking..., Loading..., or the emotionally vacant spinner text that haunts modern software.

Published on npm as eldritch-thinking.

Install

npm install eldritch-thinking

Or run it directly:

npx eldritch-thinking

CLI

npx eldritch-thinking
npx eldritch-thinking --pack academic
npx eldritch-thinking --pack terminal --subject daemon
npx eldritch-thinking --json
npx eldritch-thinking --list

Example output:

Claude is bargaining with the elder logits...

JSON output:

{"pack":"eldritch","text":"Claude is lowering a lantern into the vector abyss..."}

Node API

import { eldritchThinking, getStatus, listPacks } from "eldritch-thinking";

console.log(eldritchThinking());
console.log(eldritchThinking({ pack: "academic" }));
console.log(getStatus({ pack: "terminal", subject: "daemon" }));
console.log(listPacks());

Packs

Pack	Mood
mild	Atmospheric but still office-safe
eldritch	Default cosmic-horror loading text
unhinged	Louder, stranger, and less production-serious
academic	Research, papers, experiments, and cursed peer review
terminal	CLIs, daemons, logs, and late-night deploys
corporate-occult	Roadmaps, stakeholders, and ritualized alignment
agentic	Tool calls, planners, executors, and haunted DAGs

Browser snippet

<script type="module">
  import { eldritchThinking } from "https://esm.sh/eldritch-thinking";

  document.querySelector("#status").textContent = eldritchThinking({
    pack: "agentic",
    subject: "the agent"
  });
</script>

Release

Current npm release: 0.1.0.

npm test
npm pack --dry-run

License

MIT