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Slowly Devour Your Claude Code: Raise a Terminal Black Hole

Watch a ray-traced black hole grow in your Ghostty terminal as Claude Code's context window fills up. Devours your screen at 100%. Install the plugin now.

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Meng Li
Jun 22, 2026
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While scrolling through X, I saw a GIF: A black hole floating inside a Ghostty terminal, slowly growing larger and devouring the text on the screen bit by bit.

The black hole’s appetite is exactly equal to Claude Code’s context window.

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When you’re chatting with Claude Code, and the context hits the limit, the model quietly runs /compact on its own — and suddenly the details from the first half of your project get blurry.

It always feels jarring.

There’s an open-source project that turned this into an animation. While using Claude Code in the terminal, the fuller the context, the bigger the black hole gets.

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