claude-pushups

Claude Code does your job. You do push ups. That's the deal.

It counts the tokens Claude just burned doing your work, turns them into reps you owe, and puts the number in your status line where you can't ignore it.

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Nothing is blocked, nothing is gated, your prompts always go through. It just watches and adds up.

Get it

Needs bash, jq and awk.

git clone https://github.com/Deorbiting/claude-pushups.git
cd claude-pushups
./install.sh

Restart Claude Code. Got a status line already? It's kept, and the reps get stapled on the end of it. ./uninstall.sh puts everything back.

Use it

pu              # what you owe
pu done         # cleared 47. sure you did.
pu 20           # paid 20. 27 still owed.
pu skip         # write it off
pu tier rat     # switch tier

Inside Claude Code put a ! in front: ! pu done.

Debt survives turns, sessions and restarts. Only pu clears it — but it can't run away either. You can never owe more than a day's worth (75 at the default tier). Anything above that rots, and is logged as a lapse rather than quietly dropped:

owed: 75 — shut up and push
lapsed: 265 left to rot (ceiling is 75)

Past a certain size a number stops being a target and becomes wallpaper, so the ceiling keeps the debt doable and moves the shame onto how much you let rot.

Tiers

        name           tokens/rep   cap/turn   cap/day
  fat   fat fuck            4000         15        30
  cuck  claude cuck         2000         35        75     ← default
  rat   gym rat             1000         60       150
  roid  roid monkey          600         99       250

pu tier roid

Each tier talks to you differently. Find out.

Toxic mode

pu tone toxic     # considerably worse
pu tone normal    # back

Off by default. Nobody but you ever sees it.

When it interrupts you

It doesn't notify every turn — that gets muted within an hour, which defeats the whole thing. A notification fires only when you actually earned reps, and at most once every 10 minutes, unless reps lapsed, which is worth knowing straight away. Set PU_NOTIFY_COOLDOWN (seconds) to change it.

The message asks for a number you might actually do rather than reciting the total, since 75 gets ignored and 20 doesn't:

35 reps. I did your entire fucking job. get on the floor.
· drop and give me 20, then: pu done

Say something else

It's all in talk.txt, one line each:

tier|kind|text                       # tier "*" hits every tier
roid|jab-mid|your delts are lying
fat|tally-low|{n} reps. that is one advert break, fatty.

• jab-low / jab-mid / jab-high / jab-max — status bar, at debt ≤20, ≤50, ≤100, 100+. Keep under 28 characters or the line wraps.
• tally-zero / tally-low / tally-mid / tally-high — turn-end notification, at 0, ≤10, ≤30, 30+ reps. {n} is the number.

Drop your own talk.txt into ~/.claude/pushups/ and it overrides the shipped one. Hermes uses $HERMES_HOME/pushups/talk.txt instead (normally ~/.hermes/pushups/talk.txt). git pull won't touch either file.

The little guy in the status bar

pu anim          # list them
pu anim jack     # switch
pu anim none     # off

flex   ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ  ᕦ(ò_ó )ᕤ         dots   ⠋ ⠙ ⠹ ⠸ ⠼ ⠴ ⠦ ⠧ ⠇ ⠏
jack   \o/ )o( /o\ )o(            bar    [=   ] [ =  ] [  = ] [   =]
pulse  ▁▃▅▇ ▃▅▇▅ ▅▇▅▃ ▇▅▃▁        beat   ♥♡ ♥♥ ♡♥ ♡♡

Two of them use a second row:

press   \o/   _o_   /o\           spin   ▛▀   ▀▜   ▄▟   ▙▄
        ‾‾‾   ‾‾‾   ‾‾‾                  ▙▄   ▄▟   ▀▜   ▛▀

It reacts to what's happening. Each set defines up to three states, and a set that only defines work falls back to it:

state	when
work	a turn is running and reps are climbing
capped	this turn hit the per-turn cap
owed	turn over, debt outstanding

Add your own to anim.txt — name|state|frame|frame|..., splitting rows on ^:

worm|work|~-  |-~- |  -~|-~-
worm|owed|_-_
tower|work|▄ ^▀ |▄▄^▀▀| ▄^ ▀

Two rules, both enforced by test.sh: every frame in a set needs the same number of rows, and corresponding rows need the same number of characters, or the status line shunts sideways on every tick. A trailing | makes an empty frame and will fail.

The status line is event-driven, so install.sh sets "refreshInterval": 1 in your settings. Without it the animation and the live counter freeze during a long tool call. If you installed before this existed, add it by hand:

"statusLine": { "type": "command", "command": "...", "refreshInterval": 1 }

Hermes CLI

This project also supports Hermes Agent without changing Hermes core files. It uses profile-local plugin hooks to count output tokens across every API call in a turn and adds the existing +5 rep subagent bonus. In Hermes' modern TUI it publishes debt through the existing internal notification event spine, which puts 💪 N owed in the real status bar without modifying Hermes core files. Classic/non-TUI sessions fall back to appending the tally to the final response. Billing/credits warnings always take priority over push-up debt.

Install in the default/current profile only:

./install-hermes.sh

For an explicitly named profile:

./install-hermes.sh profile-name

Restart Hermes after installation, then use:

/pu
/pu done
/pu 20
/pu tier rat

From a regular shell, hpu provides the same ledger commands. Hermes state is kept under $HERMES_HOME/pushups (normally ~/.hermes/pushups), so profiles do not share debt. ./uninstall-hermes.sh removes the plugin link but preserves the ledger.

Bits and pieces

Reps come from output tokens, not the clock, so you don't get billed while you read a permission prompt. Subagents are +5 each. Ledger lives at ~/.claude/pushups/ledger.

macOS	everything
Linux	everything, notifications need notify-send
Windows, Git Bash or WSL	works, no desktop notification
Windows, no bash	no

bash test.sh — 35 asserts, no framework.

No streaks, no leaderboard, and nothing checks that you actually did them.

Licence

MIT.