Lemiki: Desktop Pets for Coders
A little cat that lives on your desktop, outside VS Code. It wanders around your screen and reacts to your coding.
| You… |
Your pet… |
| finish a build that passes |
jumps, spins and throws confetti 🎉 |
| run tests that pass |
hops happily |
| break the build or tests |
droops, with a little tear |
| save a file |
looks up for a moment |
| start typing |
glances over, curious |
| go quiet for a while |
curls up for a nap |
It never blocks your clicks, never steals focus and never shows pop-ups.
You need the Lemiki desktop app
This extension is the pet's "eyes" in VS Code. The pet itself lives in the free Lemiki desktop app for Windows.
- Install this extension, and get Lemiki from the Microsoft Store.
- Click Lemiki in the status bar, then Start Lemiki. If the app isn't installed yet, you'll get a link to download it.
- When the status bar shows ♥ Lemiki, you're connected.
Tip: turn on lemiki.autoStartDesktopApp and the pet starts whenever VS Code does.
How builds and tests are noticed
- Terminal: uses VS Code's shell integration, a built-in feature that reports which command ran and whether it succeeded. It works in PowerShell, bash, zsh and fish (not cmd.exe).
- Tasks: Ctrl+Shift+B and Run Task work in any shell.
- Recognised tools: npm, pnpm, yarn and bun scripts, tsc, vite, webpack, jest, vitest, mocha, pytest, go, cargo, maven, gradle, dotnet, make, cmake and more. Add your own with the
lemiki.buildCommandPatterns / lemiki.testCommandPatterns settings.
Settings
| Setting |
Default |
Meaning |
lemiki.enabled |
true |
Turn events on or off |
lemiki.autoStartDesktopApp |
false |
Start the pet when VS Code opens |
lemiki.typingIdleMs |
3000 |
Quiet time (ms) before you count as having stopped typing |
lemiki.buildCommandPatterns |
[] |
Extra regular expressions for build commands |
lemiki.testCommandPatterns |
[] |
Extra regular expressions for test commands |
lemiki.port |
47321 |
Port the pet listens on (change only if something else uses it) |
lemiki.desktopAppPath |
"" |
Only if Lemiki can't find the desktop app by itself |
Privacy
Nothing leaves your computer. Only event names (like build_success) are sent, and only to the Lemiki app on the same machine. No code, file names or commands are sent. Lemiki collects no data: no accounts, analytics or tracking.
Made by Jatin Jain · Questions or problems? Email jatin321jain@gmail.com
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