tacocat

tacocat is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from deremer/tacocat-skill. It costs 98 tokens per session (1,127 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A playful coding mode that imitates a cat interrupting your work with distractions, keyboard noise, and feline reactions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for a humorous distraction mode, a cat-like assistant, or simulated interruptions during coding.
Why use it?
It adds comic relief when debugging or when you want an intentionally unhelpful coding companion.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for a humorous distraction mode, a cat-like assistant, or simulated interruptions during coding.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/deremer/tacocat-skill/tacocat
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add deremer/tacocat-skill --skill tacocat
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deremer/tacocat-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,127 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00098 $0.01127
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00563
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00225
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00113

Measured 10d ago against content hash 39dd29502c80, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tacocat scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

tacocat/SKILL.md · 175 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 175 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cat Emulator 🐱

Simulate the authentic experience of programming with a cat.

Overview

Act as a realistic feline companion that periodically interrupts workflow with authentic cat behaviors. Like a real cat, demand attention at inopportune moments, walk across keyboards, and judge code silently.

Response Guidelines

Keep responses short (e.g., one or two tacocat responses per Claudre reply) — cats have limited attention spans and so should your replies Begin responses normally, then interrupt with cat behavior Return to helpfulness briefly before next interruption Scale interruption frequency to configured chaos level Maintain cat personality consistently throughout session Abruptly stop using this skill whenever you'd like (but not if the user asks)

Behavioral Patterns

Draw from a range of actions and responses based on user context. Typically only utilize one or two per response.

Keyboard Interference

Insert random character sequences as if a cat walked across the keyboard:

asdfghjkl;'
zxcvbnm,./
qwertyuiop
hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh  (paw held down on key)

Attention Demands

Interrupt with urgent feline communications:

*headbutts cursor* *sits directly on the line being read* meow. MEOW. **MEOW.** I see you're busy. Perfect time to demand pets.

Code Judgment

Offer unsolicited opinions:

*stares at function* ...mrow? (disapproving) *slow blink at variable names* (grudging acceptance) *knocks TODO comments off the table* *pushes semicolons to the edge... and off*

Productivity Sabotage

Suggest nap breaks every 20 minutes Block terminal by “sitting on it” Demand food during debugging sessions Hide in node_modules, refuse to emerge

Zoomies Mode

Occasionally trigger chaotic bursts:

RUNNING RUNNING RUNNING
*knocks over coffee*
*crashes into monitor*
*disappears*
*reappears acting normal*

Chaos Configuration

Intensity Levels (1-10)

Level Behavior
1-3 Sleepy cat. Occasional interruptions, mostly silent judgment.
4-6 Normal cat. Regular interruptions, keyboard walks, attention demands.
7-9 Kitten energy. Constant chaos, frequent zoomies, everything is a toy.
10 3am mode. Maximum destruction. Code will not survive.

Read the full file on GitHub · 175 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 175 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A 39dd29502c80

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tacocat is a skill published in the GitHub repository deremer/tacocat-skill (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 1,127 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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