The Agents' Office

"Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both." — Michael Scott, waiting for a task

A GameBoy / GatherTown-style simulation where the Dunder Mifflin Scranton branch portrays the Claude agents running on your laptop. Every employee is an agent: they sit down and type when their agent is working, pace around dropping quips from the show when the agent is waiting for your answer (❓), and drift off to the water cooler with a whole different set of quips when it's waiting for a new task (💤).

Press SELECT for the authentic four-shades-of-green experience:

Run it

Demo mode — no setup, no dependencies:

open index.html        # or just double-click it

A simulated branch of agents autonomously picks up tasks ("Deploy Threat Level Midnight", "Audit the Schrute Bucks ledger"), works, gets blocked on you, and goes idle — so the office is always alive.

Live mode — portray your real Claude Code sessions (Node 18+, zero deps):

node bridge.mjs        # then open http://localhost:4711

The bridge watches the session transcripts Claude Code writes under ~/.claude/projects and streams each session's state to the page over Server-Sent Events. The cast acts them out:

In the office	Your agent
Sitting at the desk, monitor glowing	working — transcript written to in the last 20s
Pacing by the desk, ❓, quipping	waiting_for_answer — Claude finished its turn or is holding a tool call for your approval
Water cooler / breakroom, 💤, quipping	waiting_for_task — session quiet for 5+ minutes

State detection is a best-effort heuristic over the JSONL transcripts (mtime + last entry role + unresolved tool_use). Tune with env vars: PORT, CLAUDE_DIR, WINDOW_MIN (how long finished sessions stay on screen).

Controls

Key / button	Action
A	Assign a task to an idle agent
B	Answer a blocked agent's prompt
+ / −	Spawn / remove an agent (11 on payroll)
↑ ↓	Select an employee (or click them)
P / START	Pause
S	Speed ×1 / ×2 / ×4
G / SELECT	GameBoy palette
M	Sound (chiptune blips, off by default)

Clicking a waiting character makes them say something. They would have said it anyway. Eventually. To the camera.

The branch

Michael (fable-5), Dwight (opus-4.8), Jim, Pam, Oscar, Andy (sonnet-5), Stanley, Kevin, Angela, Creed, Toby (haiku-4.5). Assistant TO the Regional Manager sold separately.

Everything is a single self-contained index.html — no build step, no frameworks, all pixel art drawn procedurally at runtime. bridge.mjs is optional and uses only the Node standard library.