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by fatcullen 80 days ago
There's a bunch of unreleased features and update schedules in the source, cool to see.

One neat one is the /buddy feature, an easter egg planned for release tomorrow for April fools. It's a little virtual pet, sort of like Tamagotchi, randomly generated with 18 species, rarities, stats, hats, custom eyes.

The random generation algorithm is all in the code though, deterministic based on you account's UUID in your claude config, so it can be predicted. I threw together a little website here to let you check what your going to get ahead of time: https://claudebuddychecker.netlify.app/

Got a legendary ghost myself.

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Congrats on the legendary, happy with my uncommon ghost, turned it into a holographic trading card via Gemini instead of ASCII.

The stats bars and rarity colors are all derived from the UUID roll.

Fun rabbit hole: https://github.com/dyz2102/buddy-card

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