What is chiikawa?
chiikawa is a Claude Code mod by techkwon. Chiikawa mode: Hachiware conducts, and the friends from Chiikawa appear as text drawings to take on tasks and talk them over (Claude subagents + Orca workers). In English, Korean and. It is listed under Agents & automation and has 1 GitHub stars.
| Type | Claude code mod |
|---|---|
| Author | techkwon |
| Repository | techkwon/chiikawa |
| Popularity | 1 GitHub stars |
| Category | Agents & automation |
| Security | Review before installing (60/100) |
| Rank | #2,325 of 5,272 Claude Code mods; #169 in Agents & automation |
| License | MIT |
| Last commit | 2026-10-07 |
| Hooks | 10 events |
| Sees | compaction, every prompt, every tool call, subagent spawns |
| Draws on | Spinner, TurnDuration, AbovePrompt, Pane |
Is chiikawa safe to install?
chiikawa scores 60/100 on the MCPMods security check: Review before installing. Things to review: writes files or config; reads environment variables; watches every prompt or event. It passed 4 of 8 checks.
Mod footprints come from claude plugin validate, which lists every event a mod hooks and every API call it makes without running it.
| Check | Result |
|---|---|
| No network access | Pass |
| Starts no processes | Pass |
| Writes files or config | Review |
| Reads environment variables | Review |
| Watches every prompt or event | Review |
| Doesn't drive Claude | Pass |
| Validator reported problems | Note |
| Has an open-source license | Pass |
API calls in its code
| Call | What it means |
|---|---|
$.agent.list | |
$.clock.every | |
$.clock.now | |
$.command.register | |
$.config.list | |
$.env.get | reads env vars |
$.fs.read | reads files |
$.fs.stat | reads files |
$.fs.write | writes files |
$.session.usage | |
$.state.get | |
$.state.set | |
$.store.get | keeps its own state |
$.store.set | keeps its own state |
$.ui.invalidate | draws interface |
$.ui.open | draws interface |
$.ui.panes | draws interface |
$.ui.resolve | draws interface |
$.ui.toast | draws interface |
How do I install chiikawa?
- Check your Claude Code version. Mods need Claude Code 2.1.287 or later and are on by default.
claude --version
- Read its footprint. This lists every event it hooks and every API call it makes, without running it.
git clone https://github.com/techkwon/chiikawa claude plugin validate ./chiikawa/.
- Install it. Run this in your terminal, then /reload-plugins in an open session.
claude plugin marketplace add techkwon/chiikawa && claude plugin install chiikawa@chiikawa
Or ask Claude to set it up
Paste this into Claude Code and it installs chiikawa for you:
Install the "chiikawa" Claude Code mod from https://github.com/techkwon/chiikawa. Run claude plugin validate on it first and show me what it can access before you enable it.