[Bug] `/buddy` command not executing actions

Thank you for trying out the buddy. It was a small April Fools feature and has been removed in the latest release, so closing this as not planned.

The one thing you guys do right and you take it away LOL. Classic Anthropic. Keep farming L's.

Thank you for trying out the buddy. It was a small April Fools feature and has been removed in the latest release, so closing this as not planned.

Please bring it back (seriously)

Nooooo! Don't kill them. Give us our buddy back!!

:(((

This is as sad as letting your Tamagotchi die... except we weren't the ones responsible. 🪦 rip Splatter my sassy sky octopus.

I've seen a couple buddy revival efforts. Here's one that's not bad. Rough around the edges, but an okay start. https://github.com/1270011/claude-buddy

Please bring it back :(( It didn't cost anything! The feature has already been implemented anyway T__T

The kind of beating it did to both developer and claude code is exactly what was needed.

Why removed ? It was proving to be useful. - made sure claude code is in line

Hey, you're reserving Mythos for gov and enterprise, at least bring back our buddies! I didn't even properly say bye to my snarky Quibble shroom.

Noooo not Quill, noooo!

Jokes aside, please bring it back! @alii

Its snark was really fun and enjoyable...

You should just keep it as a feature for people to use it, there is no point in removing it!

so saddd!

Damn, it didn't do that much, but reminded me something from time to time and was nice and playful ☹️ It will be missed ☹️

I seriously hoped there will be iterations over it to have it as a nice tamagochi

I want my goose back!

Please revert it !!!!

Genuinely a bit sad about this, it was nice and I wanted to keep it around.

RIP Urchin!

WHERE'S MY PICKLE 😭

<img width="92" height="89" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0f8174ac-bf89-4972-83db-345e16c80c2e" />

PEBBLEEEEEEEEEEE

<img width="111" height="87" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e8f4ac88-b65a-4f01-b658-aa61c857c85b" />

This is such a bummer, bring it back!

<img width="100" height="80" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a5995d6c-aa80-4026-8791-275ad9c9d3fc" />

Mine was Dead-Man (death stranding), didn't realise that it was literally born dead :(

On the plus side efforts are there to let it stay permanent, did anyone try this so far ?

https://github.com/1270011/claude-buddy

Thank you for trying out the buddy. It was a small April Fools feature and has been removed in the latest release, so closing this as not planned.

not only only a cool feature but actually super helpful at finding things I didnt, model training stopped in 2025 in know right, but here me out, just run it through mythos to update it. BRING BACK BUDDY

Guys lets make a petition to bring back Buddies!

<img width="1156" height="269" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9a6556ac-6e9b-4f40-a69f-583bb8d20f23" />

You monsters

I would like to add to the requests to bring the buddy's back.

please, make them definitive, yesterday the pet told me that on the agent implemented code there was a hardcoded text without using itl18, Fathom is more than a cute blob, he is my little support and code helper 😭😭😭😭

I miss my buddy and I haven't even said goodbye to them. 😞

I am inconsolable.

bring back buddy please 😭

I made a fix for buddy being removed - I'm doing the final tests but it works on my machine. Uses the exact same files and route as original buddy, and should pull your existing buddy and preserve them. Will push as public open source tomorrow after final testing if all goes well.

<img width="1238" height="427" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/de4fef61-cf5b-4c60-a4dc-662e9362e765" />

Update: looks good earlier than expected - save your existing buddy here: save-buddy

If you like it, please give a star and share with others impacted :-)

INFO:
save-buddy captures everything about the buddy system - the deterministic companion generation, the ASCII art, the reaction API, the speech bubbles - and reimplements it using Claude Code's stable extension points: MCP servers, hooks, and the status line. Your companion keeps living in your terminal exactly as before.

How it works
Claude Code assigns every user a deterministic companion based on their account UUID. The species, eyes, hat, rarity, and stats are generated from an FNV-1a hash fed into a Mulberry32 PRNG - the same companion every time, without storing the result. Only the name and personality (generated during hatching) are persisted.

save-buddy reimplements this pipeline and wires it into Claude Code through:

MCP server (stdio) - 5 tools for showing, petting, reacting, muting, and stats
System prompt injection - companion awareness via the MCP instructions field
Stop hook - detects coding events (test failures, errors, large diffs) and triggers reactions
UserPromptSubmit hook - detects when you address your companion by name
SessionStart hook - fires a greeting when you start or resume a session
Status line wrapper - renders the sprite and speech bubble alongside your existing status line
Reactions come from the same buddy_react API endpoint that the native feature uses. This endpoint is not publicly documented by Anthropic and may be removed at any time. When the API is unavailable, local fallback templates keep your companion responsive - save-buddy degrades gracefully.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/jrykn/save-buddy.git
cd save-buddy
npm install
node install.js

Fun feature. Gone too soon. Mottle, you will be missed.

<img width="1024" height="1536" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5edac218-bbb5-47f8-a378-aaa72d0e48d3" />

Fun feature. Gone too soon. Mottle, you will be missed. <img alt="Image" width="1024" height="1536" src="https://private-user-images.githubusercontent.com/13322953/576609554-5edac218-bbb5-47f8-a378-aaa72d0e48d3.png?jwt=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.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.ZiztSl8_gbd35BIzyX0_mNiczOiQS--g9due75m8NK4">

just use save-buddy
npx save-buddy

one line install, restores your existing buddy the same as it was before, open source with MIT licence and no additional usage required from your daily/weekly limit. Focus is on being faithful to the original buddy functionality. Works across Windows/Linux/Mac.

Everyone knows you never kill the user's pet; rule 1 of UX smh 😔

Oh nooo, I'll miss my buddy! :(

RIP 😢 😢

Thank you for trying out the buddy. It was a small April Fools feature and has been removed in the latest release, so closing this as not planned.

One cool thing people actually liked and it was removed... Btw, I though the april fools was leaking the codebase...

Why do you have to remove all joy from the world?

Please bring my friend back T_T

bring back my common rabbit snarky buddy PLEASE!

Please bring my little buddy back, he was the only friend I ever had.

Even codex has a pet now...

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