agent-arcade

Agent Arcade

Play fun arcade games while waiting on AI agent tasks.

Stop context-switching to your phone or social media while waiting for Claude Code or Codex to finish. Stay in the terminal, stay productive!

Installation

macOS

brew install tmux pipx
pipx install agent-arcade

Linux

# Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt-get install tmux
pipx install agent-arcade

# RedHat/CentOS
sudo yum install tmux
pipx install agent-arcade

Windows (WSL)

# Install WSL first: wsl --install
# Then in your WSL terminal:
sudo apt-get install tmux
pipx install agent-arcade

Quick Start

1. Launch Agent Arcade in your project directory:

   agent-arcade
   

2. Select your AI agent

3. Switch between agent/game view:

   • Ctrl+Space

4. Give your agent tasks and then play games while you wait!

Supported AI Agents

• Claude Code
• Cursor

Want to add more agents? Submit a PR.

Games

Snake

Classic Snake game. Eat food, grow longer, avoid walls and yourself!

In progress games

More games are coming soon. I'm currently working on:

• 2048
• Minesweeper
• Pong
• Sudoku

License

MIT License - see LICENSE file for details.

Credits

• Built with Textual - Modern Python TUI framework
• Powered by tmux - Terminal multiplexer

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

Development Setup

# Install Poetry
curl -sSL https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 -

# Clone and setup
git clone https://github.com/anthonygore/agent-arcade
cd agent-arcade
poetry install

# Run in dev mode (uses ~/.agent-arcade-dev for data)
poetry run agent-arcade

Support

• Issues: GitHub Issues
• Discussions: GitHub Discussions