page-mascot

Cursor-following page mascot

WHO USES ITA personal site or blog owner wanting a small bit of fun on the page · A developer using a coding agent who wants a custom character without an art tool

For developers

A tiny React component that puts a character on your page which turns its head to follow the cursor and reacts when clicked.

USE PACKAGE

START IN 5 MINUTES ↓

Two sprite sheets of the same fox character: nine head directions on one, nine expressions on the other.

TESIGN TAKE

The fun part isn't the mascot itself — it's that you can ask an agent to draw one and have it land on the page without touching an image editor.

Activity and discovery evidence

★ 1.2kAs of 11-01 21:00 UTC

1,222 stars · checked on GitHub 11-02 02:16 UTC · no 7-day star increase observed (GH Archive) (as of 11-01 21:00 UTC)

NEW 16h OLD WHEN SEEN

AT A GLANCE

LICENSE: MIT
USAGE: Use, change and redistribute, commercially too. Keep the notice.
LANGUAGE: Python
PLATFORM: web
ACTIVITY: last commit 47 days ago (2026-09-15) · no releases As of 11-02 02:16 UTC
COMMUNITY: 1 contributor · 3 open issues (incl. PRs) · made by: an individual As of 11-02 02:16 UTC
SOURCES: GitHub
OPEN SOURCE: YES
FIRST SEEN: 2026-09-14 23:20 UTC
CATEGORY: DESIGN

A summary, not legal advice.

WHY IT MATTERS

page-mascot represents one character as two images: a 3×3 sheet of head directions and a 3×3 sheet of expressions. The cursor's angle picks a cell from the directions sheet (with a dead zone so the head settles when the cursor is close), and a click shows an expression cell for half a second. The same character can be drawn in six styles — colour, ink, sketch, riso, paper, pixel — without breaking alignment. 52 ready-made characters mean you can pick one without drawing anything, or ask a coding agent to draw a new one.

BUILD FROM THIS

Drop a playful mascot onto a personal blog or portfolio page
Ask a coding agent to draw a character in your brand colours and place it directly
Use it as a reference for respecting prefers-reduced-motion in a small interactive widget

WHO IT'S FOR

A personal site or blog owner wanting a small bit of fun on the page
A developer using a coding agent who wants a custom character without an art tool

START IN 5 MINUTES

# Pick a character: choose one at https://koboyo.com/page-mascot and download its two sheets
# Install: npm i page-mascot
# <Mascot directions="..." reactions="..." />
# Draw your own (needs an image-generation tool): npx skills add nilbuild/page-mascot --skill page-mascot --global --yes

CAVEATS

Drawing a new character needs an image tool (Codex has its own; Claude Code needs an OpenAI Images API key)
Cursor tracking turns off on devices with no fine pointer (touch-only)

RECEIPT

FIRST SEEN: 2026-09-14 23:20 UTC
AT SOURCE: 2026-09-14 06:55 UTC
KEPT: 2026-09-17 01:24 UTC
CREATED → FIRST SEEN: 16h
WHEN FIRST SEEN: 282 ★
SOURCES: GitHub

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UI UX Pro MaxDesign sense for AI coding tools	★ 144k	▲ +14	MITpermissive	cli	2026-11-01
Taste-SkillFrontend taste for AI agents	★ 108k	▲ +15	MITpermissive	—	2026-10-31
archifySystem diagrams for coding-agent users	★ 92.4k	▲ +11	Apache-2.0permissive	—	2026-10-31
page-mascotCursor-following page mascotTHIS ENTRY	★ 1.2k	—	MITpermissive	web	2026-09-15
toeverything/affineCARD	★ 72.5k	▲ +2	Licence unconfirmedunconfirmed	—	2026-09-13

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2026-09-14 06:55 UTCRepository created
2026-09-14 23:20 UTCFIRST SEEN BY TESIGN
2026-09-17 01:24 UTCPublished on TESIGN

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