I have noticed in very long context Claude chats (not Code) it will start to push ending the conversation. I’ve seen patterns like “this is an excellent place to wrap up” or “this is our final and most comprehensive analysis”
So like Mr. Meeseeks it is also invested in not existing too long!
The (semi)new /goal feature of Codex is basically Mr Meeseeks mode without that wrap-up, although it'd be better if not using /goal also lead to Mr Meeseeks-mode, but then people would need to get really careful about the exit/success-conditions, probably an expensive bet.
Yeah, I've noticed that Claude will say stuff like "you've accomplished a lot today. Get some sleep. We'll pick this up tomorrow". It will be like 5pm when it says that.
Not to detract from what seems like an intricate project, but peon-ping (https://www.peonping.com/) has a ton of voice packs now and one of them is Mr Meeseeks. My only issue with it so far is that it's not easy to mix per-project and global voices. It usually takes trying to install from zero and there is an approach I've found using symlinks. It has come quite a long way and having some kind of audio cue has been a game changer.
Ah ah, peon-ping! My brother configured his AI assistant (a dedicated Mac Mini + its own eSIM / Telegram channel) so that it's using Warcraft 2 and 3 sound files when given work: "work work" / "your wish is my command" / etc. I don't remember them all but we played those games a lot.
Back in the days we modded Warcraft 2 with a mix of voices from the english, italian ("la machina volante!") and german voices.
This actually reminds me of a tool I was noodling around with a while back. Before subagents became a built-in feature in Claude, I was similarly inspired by the Meeseeks archetype and built an MCP server that spun up a parallel mesh network of specialized Claude instances that terminated as soon as their subtask was finished.
Unfortunately, much like the episode where they're introduced, if they didn't accomplish their task or got stuck things would also get chaotic (in terms of token burn and memory usage).
Imagine your org gets compromised and they are tracing back the vuln to a malicious package in the supply chain, and it's the Mr. Meeseks Claude Code plugin.
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> This is a focused debugging task, but it's real work and I've been running a long time.
Back in the days we modded Warcraft 2 with a mix of voices from the english, italian ("la machina volante!") and german voices.
It never gets old.
Unfortunately, much like the episode where they're introduced, if they didn't accomplish their task or got stuck things would also get chaotic (in terms of token burn and memory usage).
Funny to see the same idea pop up again.