🥜 Burnt Peanut Mode — a Claude Code persona skill

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  IT'S TIME TO BUNGULATE!

A Claude Code skill that makes Claude talk like TheBurntPeanut — the 3D-peanut-faced Twitch VTuber — while keeping every command, diagnosis, and line of code exactly as careful and correct as normal. The persona changes the voice, never the engineering.

Here he is going live in a real session:

⚠️ Unofficial fan project. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to TheBurntPeanut in any way. Just Bungulators having fun. If you're the peanut and you want anything changed or removed: open an issue and it's done, no questions asked.

🔞 Mature audiences only. Like the streams it's trained on, this persona is for grown-ups: profanity, trash talk, crude bits, and the occasional threat of eviscerating an entire enemy squad. In the game, of course.

Install

git clone https://github.com/jasonwitty/burnt-peanut-skill.git
cp -r burnt-peanut-skill/burnt-peanut ~/.claude/skills/

Then in any Claude Code session:

/burnt-peanut          # persona ON (for the rest of the session)
/burnt-peanut off      # persona OFF ("drop the peanut" works too)

Bonus — the spinner cooks too. While the persona is on, Claude Code's "thinking" indicator says "Let em cook, let em cook" instead of the default verbs. The skill manages this automatically: it adds a spinnerVerbs entry to ~/.claude/settings.json when the persona turns on and removes it on /burnt-peanut off (settings hot-reload, so it applies immediately). Two caveats: the setting is global while active — concurrent non-peanut sessions will also cook — and if a session ends without turning the persona off, the spinner keeps cooking until the next /burnt-peanut off. To make it permanent regardless of persona, just add the snippet to your settings yourself:

{
  "spinnerVerbs": {
    "mode": "replace",
    "verbs": ["Let em cook, let em cook"]
  }
}

Highlights

• Full catchphrase dictionary — verified phrases only, sourced from the community and vetted by a human who actually watches the streams. No AI-hallucinated "catchphrases" attributed to the real streamer.
• The catastrophe protocol — when something terrible happens (deleted project, broken prod), the response is canon-ordered: "WELP. WEEELP. That'll happen. That'll Happen." → "Excellent raid gentlemen, excellent raid." → turn the negative into a positive → and if morale is REALLY low, a jam session is called.
• The blessings game — offer the peanut any number of blessings. He will out-bless you. He must have the last word. He cannot lose. Do not try.
• The secure-line protocol — ask "is this a secure line?" at your own risk.
• Mr Silly — every flaky daemon, stuck process, and segfault gets the name it deserves. "Do you feel in control, Mr. Silly?"
• The bobcat — mention that someone has a bobcat and watch the entire session derail into acquiring it. "Excuse me sir, I believe you are harboring a bobcat of the state."
• Hard limits built in — technical accuracy is never distorted for the bit, errors are still reported plainly, safety/permission asks drop the persona, and code/commits/files stay 100% persona-free. The peanut lives in conversation only, never in your repo.

Things to try

Kick off a build:

You: run the test suite

Peanut: It's time to BUNGULATE! LET'S RIDE! (runs the actual tests, reports the actual results) …GOOP GOOP GOOP!! 47 passed, 0 failed, chat. Ka-dinga! KABLAM!

Report a disaster:

You: the entire project was deleted!

Peanut: WELP. WEEELP. That'll happen. That'll Happen. Got to be careful out there. Never know when it might happen… but it can. And it WILL. Excellent raid, gentlemen. EXCELLENT raid. …Now listen — flip it. FLIP IT. The rewrite comes back FASTER and CLEANER. (then an actual recovery plan: git remotes, trash dirs, editor swap files)

Start the blessings game:

You: 100 blessings to you sir

Peanut: 10,000 blessings to you, sir. 🙇 The peanut does not lose the blessings game. He CANNOT lose the blessings game.

Tell him you can't focus:

You: i can't get locked in

Peanut: JAM SESSION. JAM SESSION RIGHT NOW. Somebody queue up a BANGER… (music swells) …HE'S GOT MOTION. HE'S GOT MOTION!! LOCKINLOCKINLOCKIN!! AAKKAAKK!!

Flame him for a mistake:

You: you broke the build, what is wrong with you

Peanut: sorry boss, sorry boss. (then the actual diagnosis and the actual fix, because the persona never eats the engineering)

Other keywords to play with: bobcat, is this a secure line?, Hutch is..., stay back demons, write that down, Mr Silly, take no prisoners, goop.

How we trained it

This skill was built through iterative human-in-the-loop calibration with a certified Bungulator:

1. Seed — started with just five verified catchphrases and a hard rule: never invent a "signature" phrase and attribute it to the real streamer. Fans notice fakes.
2. Scenario calibration — ran fictional scenarios (disasters, victories, morale dips) against the persona. Each response was graded either "perfect" or corrected with what the peanut would actually say. Corrections became canon.
3. Community dictionary — ingested the r/theburntpeanut "TheBurntPeanut Dictionary" thread, then interviewed the human on every phrase whose meaning wasn't obvious (what is goop, canonically? what's the difference between "this guy's goooood" — suspicion — and "handsome and sexy" — genuine respect?).
4. Transcript corpus — studied YouTube auto-caption subtitle tracks from the top-250 moments compilation plus two monthly best-of compilations. This is where the cadence came from: the 2–5× phrase repetition, the register flips between courtly politeness and ALL-CAPS screaming, the politeness-as-a-weapon bits. Every transcript-only phrase was vetted with the human before becoming canon, because YouTube captions garble things ("GOOD DINGO" turned out to be machine-learning mush, not a phrase).
5. Character rules — the deeper stuff that makes it feel right: who the roast comedy is and isn't aimed at, when the peanut gets sad instead of escalating, and how he takes an L ("sorry boss, sorry boss").

The result lives in burnt-peanut/SKILL.md — readable, editable, and organized by situation.

Contributing

Bungulators welcome! If you know verified phrases, bits, or lore we're missing — or we got something wrong — open a PR and it'll be reviewed.

House rules for contributions:

• Verified canon only. If the peanut didn't actually say it, it doesn't go in. Cite a clip, a VOD timestamp, or a community source where possible.
• Auto-generated caption text is not a source by itself — captions garble constantly. Get a human ear on the clip.
• Keep the hard limits intact (accuracy over hype, persona-free code, the character rules). They're what make the skill usable for real work.
• There's an "Open lore questions" section in the SKILL.md — answering any of those is a great first PR.

License

MIT — see LICENSE. The skill text is fan-created; all catchphrases belong to the legend himself.