cursouls: a pixel cafe for your AI agents

I run Cafe Cursor events as a Cursor ambassador. Developers gather at a real cafe, drink coffee, and talk about how they’re building with Cursor. There’s something about the format that works. People share screens, trade prompts, debug each other’s agent workflows. The cafe is the context.

Cursouls is a fun project, not trying to solve a specific problem. It’s a pixel cafe that lives in your sidebar, where each AI agent becomes a tiny character you can see. When they work, they animate. When they finish, they celebrate. When they fail, you know instantly. When they need clarification, they let you know.

10x engineers monitor logs. You watch your guys vibe.

What It Looks Like

Install the extension, open a workspace, and the cafe populates on its own. No configuration.

Each agent gets a unique pixel character skin and a random name when it joins. When an agent starts working, the character animates. When it finishes, it celebrates. When it fails, it looks distressed. When it needs clarification, it signals confusion. You hover over a character to see what it’s working on. You drag to pan the scene. You click the barista counter because why not.

It works with Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode agents, all in the same cafe at once. Powered by @agentprobe/core, which watches the transcript files these tools already leave behind. No API keys, no patches.

How We Built It

The cafe is a pixel scene rendered from a single sprite atlas. Frame-by-frame animations driven by CSS background positioning. Framer Motion handles the draggable scene with spring physics. A dialog box with typewriter-effect text announces events as they happen. The whole thing feels like a game, not a panel.

We leaned into the vibe. Random aliases via Faker give each agent a memorable name. Four character skins. Furniture, plants, a barista counter. It’s deliberately more whimsical than practical.

Install

Search “Cursouls” in the Extensions panel (Cmd+Shift+X) and click Install. That’s it.

Or build from source:

git clone https://github.com/wunderlabs-dev/cursouls.git
cd cursouls
npm install && npm run build
npx @vscode/vsce package --no-dependencies

Then Cmd+Shift+P > “Install from VSIX” > select cursouls-0.1.7.vsix.

Built by Vlad Temian and Marius Balaj at Wunderlabs. MIT licensed.

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For the observability library that powers Cursouls, see agentprobe. For structured agent workflows, see micode. For sharing agent sessions, see claudebin.

Stay curious ☕