Machina
“machine”
precisecooldrafted
An engineer's blueprint, with gears and a compass rose drawn in the corners.
If you like Cobalt, you will feel at home here.
A blueprint with gears, arcs and a compass rose in the corners. Held still, as it is while you read.
The plate
By night the page is blueprint navy with a fine grid and pale drawings at the edges: meshed gears, a compass rose, arcs and dimension lines. By day it is cool drafting paper inked in blue. While Claude works the lines draw themselves again and the large gear turns slowly. When the answer is ready the drawing holds still.
While Claude works
The spinner takes one of these words in place of “Working”. When the app names the step it is on, that name stays.
- Drafting
- Measuring twice
- Turning the gears
- Setting the compass
- Inking the lines
After a turn of 20 seconds or more, Machina plays a soft chime under a second and a half long.
With /tessera music, a quiet loop of its own plays while Claude works and stops when the answer is ready. It is off until you ask for it.
Palette
Light
- Page
#eaf1fa - Card
#f0f5fc - Panel
#f5f9fe - Text
#192941 - Secondary
#2d415d - Muted
#415877
Dark
- Page
#14263c - Card
#1a2b41 - Panel
#203045 - Menu
#253549 - Text
#d8e4f1 - Secondary
#bac9db - Muted
#9db0c6
Roles
- Accent
#4b8fd8 - Danger
#cf6459 - Success
#4ea27c - Warning
#c6953c - Pro
#9a80d2
Measured
Standard contrast. Body text is held at 9:1 to 14:1. Here it measures 12.9:1 in light and 11.9:1 in dark. Calm accents.
| Reading | Light | Dark |
|---|---|---|
| Body text on the page | 12.9:1 | 11.9:1 |
| Muted text on the page | 6.4:1 | 6.9:1 |
| Page lightness | 96% | 26% |
| Glass | 64%, 18 pt blur | 64%, 18 pt blur |
Contrast is the WCAG ratio. Muted text is held at 4.5:1 or better. Lightness is OKLCH, where 0% is black and 100% is white.
Install
Hang Machina
-
1 In the desktop app
Click + next to the prompt box and choose Plugins. Add the marketplace btahir/tessera, then add the tessera plugin.
btahir/tessera -
2 In a terminal session
Paste this at the prompt.
/plugin install tessera --marketplace btahir/tessera -
3 Ask Claude
Send this sentence in any session.
Install the tessera plugin from the btahir/tessera marketplace on GitHub.
Then
The tessera plugin holds all twenty-five plates.
Type /tessera machina to hang Machina.
/tessera still stops the motion. Sound has three levels: /tessera quiet is silence,
/tessera sound is a chime after long turns (the default), and /tessera music adds the room's own
quiet loop while Claude works. Your choices are kept across sessions.
Only Machina
Each plate also installs by its own name, and its commands use that name, such as /machina still or /machina music.
/plugin install machina --marketplace btahir/tessera Where it shows
Themes appear in the Claude Code desktop and mobile apps. The terminal keeps its own colors. The chime plays on macOS only.