Bring back /buddy as a permanent (opt-in) feature
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Activity 3 comments · opened May 18, 2026 · closed May 18, 2026
The /buddy easter egg shipped for April 1st (changelog entry: "hatch a small creature that watches you code") was genuinely fun and gave the CLI a bit of personality. Now that we're past April it's gone.
Request: bring it back as a permanent opt-in feature. Suggestions:
- Off by default so it doesn't surprise anyone in serious contexts.
- Toggle via
/buddyto summon and/buddy offto dismiss, or a setting in~/.claude/settings.json. - Optional: let the creature react to events (long-running tool calls, errors, successful builds) so it earns its keep beyond just sitting there.
Small thing, but the kind of personality detail that makes the tool feel less like a faceless agent. Would happily take it as a hidden flag rather than a default.
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Closing as duplicate of #45732 / #52900 / #52523. Upvoting those instead.
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