Pixel Buddy

Ship code, feed your buddy.

A pixel pet for Claude Code. It hatches tiny in the footer next to your status line and grows up over three weeks,
eats what your work drops, levels up, earns rare trophies, does tricks and tells facts while Claude thinks, naps when
you are away and plays with you on clicks. Every buddy you hatch stays in your nest, and nothing leaves your machine.

Install

1. Open Claude Code 2.1.318 or later in a terminal. Older one? Run claude update

2. Paste this at the prompt:

   /plugin install pixel-buddy --marketplace SimakovIgor/pixel-buddy
   

3. Answer y and pick the user scope, so it hatches in every session

The egg hatches in the footer right away. In the desktop app: + next to the prompt box, Plugins, Add marketplace
SimakovIgor/pixel-buddy, Add plugin. Update and removal are in the plugin's README.

It speaks English or Russian: pick the language when you install it, or later with a right click → settings.

If your buddy made you smile, a ⭐ helps other people find it

A quick look

Click it to pet it, double click for its own move, click an empty spot to throw a ball:

A right click opens the menu with a summary line. card shows its card in a frame above the prompt:

Rare moments of your work earn trophies: a commit deep in the night, a snack every day for a week, a legendary egg.
Six are secret. Each one brings a gold cup and fireworks, and share copies a card to show it off in any chat:

Your trophy case opens from the menu, a pixel badge for each trophy. All fourteen and how to earn them, the secret
ones behind a spoiler, are in TROPHIES.md (по-русски):

In VS Code and Cursor the buddy sits right above the prompt and lives the same life as in the terminal: it strolls,
walks off to the right corner to think while Claude works, naps under its palm and walks over to eat what your work
drops. The editor does not let a click land on a picture, so four small buttons sit next to it: ❤️ pets it, 🍪 hands
it a berry, ⚾ throws a ball it runs after, ⋯ opens the same menu as a right click. /buddy panel puts it on the
right:

Eight species, and each one comes and goes in its own way:

Feeding, moods, the nest, trophies, clicks, commands, what the buddy runs and sends, and troubleshooting are in the
plugin's README.

In this repository

• pixel-buddy/: the plugin, the folder people install
• tests/: its tests, kept outside the plugin. Run them with sh tests/run.sh
• .claude-plugin/marketplace.json: the marketplace simakovigor that lists the plugin

License

MIT