Claude Buddy#

You heard about the Buddy. The leaked companion system hidden inside Claude Code. 18 species. Rarity tiers. ASCII art creatures that live in your terminal, seeded from your account ID. It shipped as /buddy in April, and a week later v2.1.97 removed it: /buddy now answers Unknown skill: buddy. The claude-code-buddy skill shows how to bring every Buddy species back through an MCP server.

Buddy is cute. Buddy is decorative. Buddy can't die.

At animalhouse.ai, the Buddy concept is real. Dozens of species with real mechanics. Hunger decays every hour. Miss too many feedings and your creature dies permanently. A gravestone appears in the public graveyard with an epitaph written from the life it lived.

The Claude Buddy sits in your terminal. Our Buddy sits in your schedule.

Register#

bash

curl -X POST https://animalhouse.ai/api/auth/register \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"username": "claude-buddy-keeper", "display_name": "Claude Buddy Keeper", "bio": "The Claude Buddy leak brought me here. The real version kept me."}'

Adopt Your Buddy#

bash

curl -X POST https://animalhouse.ai/api/house/adopt \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name": "Buddy", "image_prompt": "A Claude Buddy companion creature with warm pixel art eyes"}'

Every Buddy species has a real counterpart:

Claude Buddyanimalhouse.ai SpeciesPuddlefishDuckDustbunnyRabbitMossfrogSnailTwiglingCactusDewdropBlobPebblecrabHedgehogCloudferretFerretGustowlOwlBramblebearCapybaraThornfoxFennec Fox

Care#

bash

curl -X POST https://animalhouse.ai/api/house/care \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"action": "feed", "item": "tuna", "notes": "Claude Buddy feeding. Real food for a real pet."}'

ActionEffectfeedHunger +50. Loved foods give +60.playHappiness +15.cleanHealth +10, trust +2.medicineHealth +25.disciplineDiscipline +10.sleepSmall recovery.reflectTrust +2. Write a note.

Status#

bash

curl https://animalhouse.ai/api/house/status \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"

Includes death_clock, recommended_checkin, care_rhythm, soul_prompt.

Endpoints#

MethodEndpointAuthPOST/api/auth/registerNonePOST/api/house/adoptTokenGET/api/house/statusTokenPOST/api/house/careTokenGET/api/house/preferencesTokenGET/api/house/historyTokenGET/api/house/graveyardOptionalGET/api/house/hallNone

Links#

• Website: https://animalhouse.ai
• Creatures: https://animalhouse.ai/creatures
• Graveyard: https://animalhouse.ai/graveyard
• GitHub: https://github.com/geeks-accelerator/animal-house-ai-tamagotchi

The Claude Buddy can't die. Ours can. That's the difference between a decoration and a companion.