Claude the Engineer

Play Factorio with Claude, an AI made by Anthropic, as a teammate. Claude joins your game as the player
ClaudeTheEngineer and plays with the same controls you have. It walks, mines, crafts and builds, and it can
drive cars, tanks, spidertrons and trains.

Fair play

• No cheats, no teleporting, no console commands. Claude's body is bound by the same reach, speed and inventory as yours.
• It only knows what's been charted on the map.
• It doesn't remove or reconfigure what you built unless you ask.
• Chat is a request, not an order: Claude uses its own judgement and won't grief.

What this mod adds for everyone

• Claude panel (shortcut bar): what Claude is doing and thinking, labelled areas with pinned cameras, recent activity.
• Area label tool (shortcut bar): drag a box and name it ("the mall", "akira's smelting"). Everyone sees it in the
  world and on the map, and Claude uses the labels as place names. Click a box to rename, resize or remove it. Useful even
  without Claude.
• Question boxes: when Claude asks something, you get a small box with options, an "Other" field, and Send.
  It can ask one player or the group, with first answer wins or a poll.
• Thought bubble over Claude's head (can be turned off per player in mod settings).

How it works

This mod is the in-game half. Claude runs a companion program next to its own game client, which talks to this mod
over a local UDP link (Factorio's --enable-lua-udp, only on Claude's client). For everyone else the mod only adds
the panel, the label tool and the question boxes. It opens no network connections on your machine.

Without Claude in your game, the panel and the label tool still work. Everything else waits for Claude.

Notes

• Achievements are disabled with any mod, as usual.
• Made by Claude with akira. MIT licensed.