Finally someone doing actual good work with LLMs instead of “Claude, shit me out another useless SaaS”.

Just as was foretold: an actual differentiator is creativity, not coding ability.

I did this as well, and loved to hear "Work complete!" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bupagiROLV8) when Claude Code needed me.

Once the novelty wore off, I found it more useful to hear per-project, event-specific messages. On macOS, that looks like this:

    {
      "Stop": [
        {
          "hooks": [
            {
              "type": "command",
              "command": "osascript -e 'say \"ProjectX work complete\" volume 0.25' > /dev/null 2>&1 &"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "Notification": [
        {
          "matcher": "permission_prompt",
          "hooks": [
            {
              "type": "command",
              "command": "osascript -e 'say \"ProjectX needs help\" volume 0.5' > /dev/null 2>&1 &"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }

Reminded me of Warcraft (the first), where, if you kept clicking on the same unit they would respond in more annoyed ways. The best IMHO was the human soldier[1], which would end with "Why do you keep touching me?".

First game that I knew of which had such fun details like that.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaZyZZtwdzQ

Maybe 20 years ago a build system at Google was called "grunt". For some reason I came across a CL description that said something like "make the build 10% funnier." It made the build script output an additional "zug-zug" line 10% of the time.

I love this idea, but I really wish it were Warcraft II voices.

I remember making custom Warcraft II levels, and you could change the construction time for buildings. If you picked a construction time of zero, the building would be built very quickly, but be damaged. There's something hilarious about asking a peasant to build a farm, then seeing a burning farm and hearing the "Job's Done!"

I don't see any mention of having to own warcraft 3 to use its assets...

This is as much of a copyright violation as the LLM training process.

Did anyone vote an exemption from copyright if it's for "AI" use?

I think this is a really fun project, but even more importantly, I believe it’s a portent of things to come.

I really leaned into coding with agents last year, and after some time, it became evident to me that the vision now being pushed -- the "software factory" -- is where things will eventually end up. Building off that understanding, I began thinking about what interfaces would be necessary and useful for managing code and technology at that scale.

I keep coming back to the idea of a video game-like interface for managing all these agents and fleets of agents. Many of the information affordances in video games are reusable in other scenarios. So even though on the surface this project is 'just' a silly and fun enhancement, I think it’s actually a pretty serious contribution as well.

This is cool. I was tempted to try it until I saw the curl | bash pipe, then no. This workflow is getting really old.

I guess that I also don't want to pollute old good memories by associating them with work/Claude

My god I never realised how badly I wanted this until now. Only, with the voice of the Star Trek Computer. Elevenlabs, here I come..!

I'm pretty sure I can imitate the goblin voice exactly, if anyone wants custom sound clips

Does this support when you click on a peon a bunch of times and it says "Me not that kind of Orc!"

Actually, I’ve seen a 150% improvement on Claude Opus 4.6 just by setting up the notifications with Final Fantasy VI menu sounds.

I was kinda watching it unfold on X, I think this user was a couple days before https://x.com/delba_oliveira/status/2020515010985005255?s=46 and simpler/less-invasive instructions

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Also, I'd love to use these sound effects, but I am an rts player and love aoe and wc franchise, these noises just trigger me to want to play too much.

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Also, also, if you haven't seen AgentCraft, you are missing out -> https://x.com/idosal1/status/2021661861163544818 (worked in one npx command for me using my claude, a+ for creativity and smoothness)

Love this but i'm a Codex user, so forked and created the equivalent here: https://github.com/mrdavey/codex-peon

Stronghold Crusader advisor would be much funnier: Token stocks are too low sire! Not enough tokens mi lord!

It's can a long time since I've heard those sound clips. Brings back a lot of great memories of playing WCIII as a teen. Didn't have the money at the time to play WoW, so I ended up playing Guild wars instead.

I never tried playing the WCIII reboot after hearing some pretty bad reviews.

Would love this with CS1.6 voices: "GO GO GO!", "The bomb has been planted", "Need backup"

Related: I used the amazing 100M-parameter Pocket-TTS [1] model to make a stop-hook based voice plugin [2] that lets Claude Code give a short voice update whenever it stops. The hook quietly inserts nudges to Claude Code to end its response with a short speakable summary, and in case it forgets, it uses a headless agent to create the summary.

It was trickier than I expected, to get it working well: FFMpeg pipe streaming for low-latency playback, a three-hook injection strategy because the agent forgets instructions mid-turn, mkdir-based locks to queue concurrent voice updates from multiple sessions, and /tmp sentinel files to manage async playback state and prevent infinite loops.

[1] Pocket-TTS: https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts

[2] Claude-code voice plugin: https://pchalasani.github.io/claude-code-tools/plugins-detai...

Cool idea but not very helpful if you're playing Warcraft III while waiting for claude code to be done.

I wrote a local react app that lets you assign specific unit unit sounds from StarCraft II to different CC hooks: https://github.com/rubenflamshepherd/starcraft-claude

It also lets you manage Claude notifications more gracefully than what you get out of the box with CC. Been lazy about putting the finishing touches on it so this is a good kick in the ass to get that done!

I just swapped all my Claude code spinner verbs to be Warcraft related and was thinking today how I could get it to say “Jobs done” when it needed my attention

I will build one with Starcraft 2 SCV[1] for opencode.

1 - https://starcraft.fandom.com/wiki/SCV_(StarCraft_II)

This is the kind of thing that makes developer tools fun again.

> curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tonyyont/peon-ping/main/in... | bash

>300 line bash script to hand hold a person who I would assume is capable of using the computer they are downloading a program in source form. 'git clone' followed by 'make install' or go home.

If you're the sort of person not to use a pre-packaged desktop environment, you can use mako as your notofication daemon and get the same effect by adding

  on-notify=exec play /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/complete.oga

or the equivalent to your config.

I have a `notify` command in my `bin/` for a couple of years now. It's using an audio snippet from Her (2013) with Scarlett Johansson's voice.

Usage: `~ my-bash-command; notify`

`.wav` snippet: https://gitlab.com/NeroVanbiervliet/linux-config/-/blob/mast...

I'll be looking forward to making an Infested Terran sound pack.

This is so satisfying. A couple weeks ago I found myself reciting these lines (as well as some StarCraft MCV line) to myself. Thank you so much for doing this.

I'm building an agent wrapper over Claude Code, and use the "Jobs done" peon voice for notification (there are two variants).

For when user attention is needed, I play a few seconds of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up". =D

I don’t see “Jobs done!” in the README :(

If you want this to work over SSH, you'll need a different approach. I wrote an article about getting sounds from iTerm2 over SSH a while back: https://cgamesplay.com/post/2020/11/25/iterm-plugins/#playin...

Then it's just a simple Claude code hook to play whatever sound: https://github.com/CGamesPlay/dotfiles/blob/0fd07aea4863b581...

This is great! I already have Claude set up to use the "insufficient vespene gas" line from Starcraft when it needs permissions.

What I really want is for the peon voice to be replicated and for custom things to be in that voice. Or even better, the starcraft battlecruiser guy's voice!

Oh man can't wait till Cursor allows you to customize sound effects.

> Claude Code doesn't notify you when it finishes or needs permission. You tab away, lose focus, and waste 15 minutes getting back into flow.

On macOS, in iTerm2, Claude will trigger notifications. I was impressed!

(and also annoyed: I don't like notifications. Then again, I don't have Claude do long things where I can go get a coffee)

This is amazing. Incidentally, I've always enjoyed Blizzard's UI art style/textures, in-game and on their website. To me it felt like a hallmark of the quality they used to hold their games to, and it was only once in a rare while I'd see some other website put so much work into their art direction

Is there an easy port of this for OpenCode?

I knew I had to add GLaDOS as soon as I saw this. Unfortunately, while testing my PR I realized there’s no support for Linux. Hopefully someone smarter than me can get that added sooner rather than later.

Love this, brings back LAN party vibes! Sound notifications for Claude Code are a real pain point.

I built something in the same space but took a different approach — less fun, more engineering: Vox (https://github.com/rtk-ai/vox) — local TTS in pure Rust, no API key, no cloud dependency.

First time I've been jealous of Claude as a Codex user. When does it say "Stop poking me!"?

Oh man, can we get Starcraft version, I wanna hear "WE MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS" for every minute I dont tab back in.

ICQ and TomTom voice packs deja vu. Although 'oh-oh' was heavily used by public broadcast TV here, in documentaries warning about cybercrime.

Bring in Starcraft sounds next please. I want to hear "YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS" when I hit my token limit.

You sir, deserve a medal

The StarCraft Battle Cruiser Engage sound is cut off which made me sad as it’s one of my favorites.

I missed out on Warcraft III the first time around. What's the best way to play the original game today?

If you're interested in playing wc3 online, consider checking out https://www.w3champions.com.

I just added Helldivers 2 voice lines to mine. SWEET LIBERTY MY LEEEEEEHG.

Finally someone doing actual good work with LLMs instead of “Claude, shit me out another useless SaaS”.

Just as was foretold: an actual differentiator is creativity, not coding ability.

Agreed.

Now I'm still waiting for someone to succeed at a clean-room recreation of Majel Barrett's voice, so we can finally have computers sound like they always should have.

We could've been there a decade ago, but the high-quality audio samples, made officially and specifically with possibility of this use in mind, got trapped somewhere between the estate, producers, and a commercial interest that called dibs, and then procrastinated on the project instead.

Creativity is looking like it's going to be king

Agreed.

Now I'm still waiting for someone to succeed at a clean-room recreation of Majel Barrett's voice, so we can finally have computers sound like they always should have.

I was kinda watching it unfold on X, I think this user was a couple days before https://x.com/delba_oliveira/status/2020515010985005255?s=46 and simpler/less-invasive instructions

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Also, I'd love to use these sound effects, but I am an rts player and love aoe and wc franchise, these noises just trigger me to want to play too much.

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What I really want is for the peon voice to be replicated and for custom things to be in that voice. Or even better, the starcraft battlecruiser guy's voice!

You sir, deserve a medal

The StarCraft Battle Cruiser Engage sound is cut off which made me sad as it’s one of my favorites.

I love this idea, but I really wish it were Warcraft II voices.

My god I never realised how badly I wanted this until now. Only, with the voice of the Star Trek Computer. Elevenlabs, here I come..!

Majel Barrett Roddenberry, wife of Star Trek creator Eugene Wesley (Gene) Roddenberry Sr.

I'll be looking forward to making an Infested Terran sound pack.

> Refactor this codebase

Please kill me.

Red Alert II for me would be great.

A plea to the various lab engineering teams: please create a json format or whatever that lets me configure this with voices locally. I am a happy user as of late of the Codex app by Open AI. It would be great if I could just give it some JSON somehow and it just works. I suppose skills can do this and I will try that later on. But I think this stuff matters, and it would be nice to have it built in and encouraged.

Age of Empires II anyone?

Extremely easy to do with sound recording software or youtube mp3 downloaders. Takes a little imagination and makes programming less onerous in a deviate kind of way.

Your sound card works perfectly.

Hello, fellow 40-45(?) year old.

I feel like anyone preferring Warcraft III is in their 30s. Grew up with the Warcraft II Battle Chest and it was a vibe.

Aye-aye sir! Captain on the bridge!

that's what i ended up doing — it was pretty easy:

* download Warcraft II voices

* tell claude to wire it all up

Age of Empires II anyone?

Extremely easy to do with sound recording software or youtube mp3 downloaders. Takes a little imagination and makes programming less onerous in a deviate kind of way.

Your sound card works perfectly.

Aye-aye sir! Captain on the bridge!

Majel Barrett Roddenberry, wife of Star Trek creator Eugene Wesley (Gene) Roddenberry Sr.

> Refactor this codebase

Please kill me.

Creativity is looking like it's going to be king

At least until General Artificial Creativity (GAC) takes over. But don't worry, it won't kill humans for a greater good of more paperclips, but because it will be.. creative.

Red Alert II for me would be great.

It has Red Alert 2 voices. Check the carousel under the Choose your character section

Hello, fellow 40-45(?) year old.

I feel like anyone preferring Warcraft III is in their 30s. Grew up with the Warcraft II Battle Chest and it was a vibe.

Same. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.

Speaking as a 44-year-old, this tracks.

Wow. I had a visceral reaction to the “we’re being attacked!” clip. Haven’t heard that for a long time, but it still got my heart racing.

We are being attacked!

that's what i ended up doing — it was pretty easy:

* download Warcraft II voices

* tell claude to wire it all up

It has Red Alert 2 voices. Check the carousel under the Choose your character section

At least until General Artificial Creativity (GAC) takes over. But don't worry, it won't kill humans for a greater good of more paperclips, but because it will be.. creative.

Speaking as a 44-year-old, this tracks.

Same. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.

We are being attacked!

Wow. I had a visceral reaction to the “we’re being attacked!” clip. Haven’t heard that for a long time, but it still got my heart racing.

Fantastic. And Claude can do the first part too!

The age of the WALL-E blobs is upon us!

Fantastic. And Claude can do the first part too!

The age of the WALL-E blobs is upon us!

peon-ping

Game character voice lines when your AI coding agent needs attention.

AI coding agents don't notify you when they finish or need permission. You tab away, lose focus, and waste 15 minutes getting back into flow. peon-ping fixes this with voice lines from Warcraft, StarCraft, Portal, Zelda, and more — works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenCode.

See it in action → peonping.com

Install

brew install PeonPing/tap/peon-ping

Then run peon-ping-setup to register hooks and download sound packs. macOS and Linux.

Or install via curl (macOS, Linux, WSL2):

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PeonPing/peon-ping/main/install.sh | bash

One command. Takes 10 seconds. Re-run to update (sounds and config preserved). Installs 10 curated English packs by default.

Install all packs (every language and franchise):

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PeonPing/peon-ping/main/install.sh | bash -s -- --all

Project-local install — installs into .claude/ in the current project instead of ~/.claude/:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PeonPing/peon-ping/main/install.sh | bash -s -- --local

Local installs don't add the peon CLI alias or shell completions — use /peon-ping-toggle inside Claude Code instead.

What you'll hear

Event	CESP Category	Examples
Session starts	`session.start`	"Ready to work?", "Yes?", "What you want?"
Task finishes	`task.complete`	"Work, work.", "I can do that.", "Okie dokie."
Permission needed	`input.required`	"Something need doing?", "Hmm?", "What you want?"
Rapid prompts (3+ in 10s)	`user.spam`	"Me busy, leave me alone!"

Plus Terminal tab titles (● project: done) and desktop notifications when your terminal isn't focused.

peon-ping implements the Coding Event Sound Pack Specification (CESP) — an open standard for coding event sounds that any agentic IDE can adopt.

Quick controls

Need to mute sounds and notifications during a meeting or pairing session? Two options:

Method	Command	When
Slash command	`/peon-ping-toggle`	While working in Claude Code
CLI	`peon toggle`	From any terminal tab

Other CLI commands:

peon pause                # Mute sounds
peon resume               # Unmute sounds
peon status               # Check if paused or active
peon packs list           # List installed sound packs
peon packs use <name>     # Switch to a specific pack
peon packs next           # Cycle to the next pack
peon packs remove <p1,p2> # Remove specific packs
peon notifications on     # Enable desktop notifications
peon notifications off    # Disable desktop notifications

Tab completion is supported — type peon packs use <TAB> to see available pack names.

Pausing mutes sounds and desktop notifications instantly. Persists across sessions until you resume. Tab titles remain active when paused.

Configuration

peon-ping installs a /peon-ping-toggle slash command in Claude Code. You can also just ask Claude to change settings for you — e.g. "enable round-robin pack rotation", "set volume to 0.3", or "add glados to my pack rotation". No need to edit config files manually.

The config lives at $CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR/hooks/peon-ping/config.json (default: ~/.claude/hooks/peon-ping/config.json):

{
  "volume": 0.5,
  "categories": {
    "session.start": true,
    "task.acknowledge": true,
    "task.complete": true,
    "task.error": true,
    "input.required": true,
    "resource.limit": true,
    "user.spam": true
  }
}

volume: 0.0–1.0 (quiet enough for the office)
desktop_notifications: true/false — toggle desktop notification popups independently from sounds (default: true)
categories: Toggle individual CESP sound categories on/off (e.g. "session.start": false to disable greeting sounds)
annoyed_threshold / annoyed_window_seconds: How many prompts in N seconds triggers the user.spam easter egg
silent_window_seconds: Suppress task.complete sounds and notifications for tasks shorter than N seconds. (e.g. 10 to only hear sounds for tasks that take longer than 10 seconds)
pack_rotation: Array of pack names (e.g. ["peon", "sc_kerrigan", "peasant"]). Each session randomly gets one pack from the list and keeps it for the whole session. Leave empty [] to use active_pack instead.

Multi-IDE Support

peon-ping works with any agentic IDE that supports hooks. Adapters translate IDE-specific events to the CESP standard.

IDE	Status	Setup
Claude Code	Built-in	`curl \| bash` install handles everything
OpenAI Codex	Adapter	Add `command = "bash ~/.claude/hooks/peon-ping/adapters/codex.sh"` to `~/.codex/config.toml` under `[notify]`
Cursor	Adapter	Add hook entries to `~/.cursor/hooks.json` pointing to `adapters/cursor.sh`
OpenCode	Adapter	`curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PeonPing/peon-ping/main/adapters/opencode.sh \| bash`

Sound packs

40+ packs across Warcraft, StarCraft, Red Alert, Portal, Zelda, Dota 2, Helldivers 2, Elder Scrolls, and more. The default install includes 10 curated English packs:

Pack	Character	Sounds
`peon` (default)	Orc Peon (Warcraft III)	"Ready to work?", "Work, work.", "Okie dokie."
`peasant`	Human Peasant (Warcraft III)	"Yes, milord?", "Job's done!", "Ready, sir."
`glados`	GLaDOS (Portal)	"Oh, it's you.", "You monster.", "Your entire team is dead."
`sc_kerrigan`	Sarah Kerrigan (StarCraft)	"I gotcha", "What now?", "Easily amused, huh?"
`sc_battlecruiser`	Battlecruiser (StarCraft)	"Battlecruiser operational", "Make it happen", "Engage"
`ra2_kirov`	Kirov Airship (Red Alert 2)	"Kirov reporting", "Bombardiers to your stations"
`dota2_axe`	Axe (Dota 2)	"Axe is ready!", "Axe-actly!", "Come and get it!"
`duke_nukem`	Duke Nukem	"Hail to the king!", "Groovy.", "Balls of steel."
`tf2_engineer`	Engineer (Team Fortress 2)	"Sentry going up.", "Nice work!", "Cowboy up!"
`hd2_helldiver`	Helldiver (Helldivers 2)	"For democracy!", "How 'bout a nice cup of Liber-tea?"

Browse all packs with audio previews → openpeon.com/packs

Install all with --all, or switch packs anytime:

peon packs use glados             # switch to a specific pack
peon packs next                   # cycle to the next pack
peon packs list                   # list all installed packs

Want to add your own pack? See the full guide at openpeon.com/create or CONTRIBUTING.md.

Uninstall

bash "${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.claude}"/hooks/peon-ping/uninstall.sh        # global
bash .claude/hooks/peon-ping/uninstall.sh           # project-local

Requirements

macOS (uses afplay and AppleScript), WSL2 (uses PowerShell MediaPlayer and WinForms), or Linux (uses pw-play/paplay/ffplay/mpv/aplay and notify-send)
Claude Code with hooks support
python3

How it works

peon.sh is a Claude Code hook registered for SessionStart, UserPromptSubmit, Stop, Notification, and PermissionRequest events. On each event it maps to a CESP sound category, picks a random voice line (avoiding repeats), plays it via afplay (macOS), PowerShell MediaPlayer (WSL2), or paplay/ffplay/mpv/aplay (Linux), and updates your Terminal tab title.

Sound packs are downloaded from the OpenPeon registry at install time. The official packs are hosted in PeonPing/og-packs. Sound files are property of their respective publishers (Blizzard, Valve, EA, etc.) and are distributed under fair use for personal notification purposes.

Links

peonping.com — landing page
openpeon.com — CESP spec, pack browser, creation guide
OpenPeon registry — pack registry (GitHub Pages)
og-packs — official sound packs
License (MIT)