The buddy feature the article mentions is planned for release tomorrow, as a sort of April Fools easter egg. It'll roll out gradually over the day for "sustained Twitter buzz" according to the source.
The pet you get is generated based off your account UUID, but the algorithm is right there in the source, and it's deterministic, so you can check ahead of time. Threw together a little app to help, not to brag but I got a legendary ghost https://claudebuddychecker.netlify.app/
Cute! Cactus for me. Nice animations too - looks like there were multiple of us asking Claude to reverse engineer the system. I did a slightly deeper dive here if you're interested, plus you can see all the options available: https://variety.is/posts/claude-code-buddies/
(I didn't think to include a UUID checker though - nice touch)
Neat! That's a great write up, cool to see others looking into it.
I do wonder if they're going to do anything with the stats and shinies bit. Seems like the main piece of code for buddies that's going to handle hatching them tomorrow is still missing (comments mention a missing /buddy/index file), so maybe it'll use them there.
Update: it looks like the live version of the algorithm is slightly different, probably changed because of these leaks. As such the app predictions aren't accurate, sorry
This is awesome! Working on a desktop pet so the buddy caught my attention. Looking forward to making friends with my Rare Duck buddy tomorrow. Wish it was a snarky duck instead of a patient one though.
Huh weird, they must have changed the algorithm up due to the leaks. Would be pretty easy, there's a constant seed variable so they'd just need to change that, figured they might. Too bad, sorry this didn't work out
The pet you get is generated based off your account UUID, but the algorithm is right there in the source, and it's deterministic, so you can check ahead of time. Threw together a little app to help, not to brag but I got a legendary ghost https://claudebuddychecker.netlify.app/