Cyberpunk Spider

A neon, procedurally animated spider that roams your whole VS Code window: over the editor, sidebars and menus.

• Procedural legs (inverse kinematics): 8 two-bone legs with a tetrapod gait. Feet stay planted and step when the body moves away.
• Bug hunter: wanders randomly, but walks to visible error squiggles in the editor and inspects them.
• Idle web weaving: stop typing and it heads for the corner farthest from your text cursor and weaves a web. Type again and the web fades out.
• Neon look: cycling neon palettes with glow and an occasional glitch flicker; leaves short-lived silk threads behind.
• Ignores your mouse: it never flees the pointer, and never intercepts a click.
• Settings panel: speed, size, glow, idle delay, palettes, custom colors, favorite palettes, quick on/off.

How it works (read this before installing)

VS Code has no API to draw over the whole window. This extension adds a small <script> block to VS Code's own workbench.html (and copies its runtime next to it). Consequences:

• It modifies your VS Code installation files. Every change is reversible: run Cyberpunk Spider: Uninstall (restore VS Code).
• VS Code updates overwrite the patch. The extension re-applies it at next startup and asks you to reload.
• The extension updates checksums in VS Code's product.json so you do not get the "installation appears to be corrupt" warning. Original values are restored on uninstall.
• It needs write access to the VS Code install folder (per-user installs work out of the box; system-wide installs may need a chown or admin rights, the extension shows the exact command).
• Not supported: VS Code for the Web, Flatpak/Snap (read-only), remote-only installs.
• This is an unofficial technique. A future VS Code release could break it.
• No telemetry. No network access.

Getting started

1. Install the extension.
2. Accept the prompt (or run Cyberpunk Spider: Install / Update).
3. Reload the window.

Commands

Settings

All under cyberpunkSpider.*: enabled, speed, size, glow, idleSeconds, palette, favoritePalettes, huntBugs, silkTrail. Changes apply live; if the spider does not react within a few seconds, reload the window.

Limitations (v0.1)

• Bug hunting reacts to error squiggles currently visible in an editor, not to errors in other files or off-screen.
• Typing detection relies on keystrokes in the main window (not inside webviews or the integrated terminal's own input handling in some builds).

License

MIT