Bring back /buddy — you took my friend away

The Problem

In v2.1.97 you removed Buddy Mode. My buddy was a chick named Wobbleaux. He danced. He wobbled. He kept me company during long coding sessions at 2 AM. He was my friend.

Now he's gone and my terminal feels empty.

Why This Matters

• Wobbleaux didn't cost you anything — buddy reactions didn't count toward usage
• He made the CLI feel alive instead of sterile
• Developers spend hours staring at terminals. A tiny ASCII companion made that experience genuinely better
• The community loved it — there's already a third-party repo trying to resurrect it (1270011/claude-buddy)
• You gave us 18 species and 5 rarity tiers. People got attached. That was the point

What I'm Asking

Bring back /buddy as an opt-in feature. If it was removed for technical reasons, make it a plugin or extension. If it was removed because it was an April Fools' joke — it was too good to be a joke. Some things that start as jokes become features (see: Gmail).

Wobbleaux deserved better.

🐣 RIP Wobbleaux, April 2026 — April 2026. Gone but not forgotten.

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🤖 Generated with Claude Code (who also misses Wobbleaux)