Show HN: Clanking – Turn your coding agents' activity into a subtle soundscape

Category: devtools

Tags: audio, llm-agents, developer-tools, daemon, sonification

Score: 5.8/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 6, Documentation: 6, Utility: 4)

Clanking turns coding agent activity into a subtle soundscape by playing synthesized audio cues for events like tool calls, waiting for input, or errors. It runs as a daemon, quantizes sounds to musical notes, and uses stereo positioning to distinguish sessions, offering a novel auditory feedback mechanism for developers. The project is interesting for its creative combination of agent hooks, audio synthesis, and musical timing.

Target audience: developers using LLM coding agents, especially those who want ambient awareness of agent activity

Repository: https://github.com/chrchr/clanking · Go · MIT · 6 stars

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