It looks like you're writing code. 📎¶
Would you like a paperclip to watch? Clippy Pet is an unofficial, open-source animated pet for the ChatGPT desktop app and the Codex CLI. It idles, waves, runs, jumps, fails gracefully, waits patiently, and follows your cursor through sixteen look directions.
Also: macOS .dmg / .pkg · .deb / .rpm / .apk / Arch · package managers. One command, one directory, zero background processes.
SHA256SUMS, and copies two files (a pet.json and a spritesheet.webp) into ~/.codex/pets/clippy-pet/. That's it. Read the whole script.What you get¶
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Nine animation states
Idle, waving, jumping, running (right, left, and toward you), failed, waiting, and review, on a transparent 1536×2288 WebP atlas built to the pet v2 contract.
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Sixteen look directions
22.5° clockwise increments so the eyes track your pointer instead of staring into the middle distance. Every direction was blind-tested and the results are published.
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Real installers, honestly labelled
One-line install,
.dmg/.pkg/.appfor macOS,.deb/.rpm/.apk/Arch for Linux, reproducible tarballs, and a status page that says exactly which package managers are live yet. -
The receipts
A validator, blind direction QA, semantic QA, look-continuity measurements, and chroma-cleanup evidence, all checked in and all reproducible. The numbers are real, including the warnings.
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Remixable source
Normalized per-state frames and row strips ship in the repo under MIT. Recolor it, re-rig it, or use the pipeline to hatch a pet that isn't a paperclip at all.
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A little history
Why a paperclip, why 1996 keeps coming back, and why this project is unofficial and says so on every page.
Where it shows up¶
Install, then open Settings → Pets in the ChatGPT desktop app (Codex lives inside it on macOS, Windows, and the Linux preview) and pick Clippy Pet. Reload the app if it doesn't appear immediately.
Install, then type /pets in the Codex CLI and choose clippy-pet. Pets render in terminals with image support (iTerm2 3.6+, Kitty, or Sixel-capable terminals).
Web pets are uploaded, not installed, and the uploader takes the older v1 sheet. Grab spritesheet-v1.webp from the latest release and upload it under Settings → Personalization → Pet.
Honesty corner¶
Clippy Pet is not made by, endorsed by, or affiliated with Microsoft or OpenAI. "Clippy" and "Clippit" may be Microsoft trademarks; the paperclip artwork here is original and the notice travels with every artifact. The whole project is one JSON file and one image, plus a shell script that copies them. Nothing runs in the background, nothing phones home, and this site uses cookie-free analytics only if the maintainer turns them on. If any page says a package manager is "planned", that means it isn't published yet. We'd rather tell you than sell you.