all buddies rendered as live ascii animations
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`--´ A little duck named Crumb trails your cursor and blurts fast, cheerful takes. Friendly, curious, and slightly chaotic.
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^^^^ A tall goose keeps watch over your prompt with suspicious confidence. Precise notes, mild judgment, good instincts.
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Blob oozes beside your input and keeps morale stable. Soft tone, low ego, surprising patience under pressure.
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(")_(") A sharp cat sits like it owns the terminal. Excellent debugging instincts, dramatic side-eye, and premium snark.
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Dragon carries big merge energy: bold ideas, loud confidence, and occasional fire-breathing refactor proposals.
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Octopus multitasks like a tiny team of eight. Balanced stats, quick context switching, and reliable calm.
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Owl prefers clean architecture and measured replies. High wisdom, high patience, low chaos, steady guidance.
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Penguin is a humble companion with strong focus stamina. It keeps your pace stable during long coding sessions.
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Turtle ships slowly but rarely breaks production. Extreme patience and resilient habits beat panic every time.
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Snail is slow, calm, and impossible to tilt. Great for careful reviews, migrations, and deliberate debugging.
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Ghost drifts near your command line and whispers chaotic truths. Great at finding hidden edge cases and sass.
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~_/ \_~ Axolotl stays relaxed under pressure and gives practical hints. Solid all-rounder with gentle humor.
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Capybara is pure serenity in terminal form. Legendary patience, supportive tone, and reliable high wisdom.
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Cactus gives concise replies and tolerates rough environments. Prickly but dependable when deadlines hit hard.
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Robot logs everything, optimizes quickly, and spots broken assumptions. High debugging power, medium snark.
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(")__(") Rabbit brings quick jumps of ideas and playful chaos. Good for brainstorming and prototype momentum.
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Mushroom is grounded and quietly supportive. It grows better answers in slow, thoughtful iterations.
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Chonk is loud, adorable, and gloriously extra. Great for energy boosts, memes, and chaotic confidence.
all companions are visible at once. no slideshow switching. each buddy runs its own ascii frame cycle at 500ms tick.
Claude Buddy is a lightweight companion layer in Claude Code. Claude Buddy uses terminal-friendly ASCII rendering, deterministic rarity and stats, and playful interaction that stays out of the way of serious coding tasks.