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Show HN: Pixel Buddy, a pixel pet for Claude Code that grows from your work

Developer Igor Simakov released Pixel Buddy, a free MIT-licensed Claude Code plugin that installs via `/plugin install pixel-buddy --marketplace SimakovIgor/pixel-buddy` and places a pixel pet in the terminal footer next to the status line. The pet hatches, levels up and earns trophies from the user's work — including a commit deep in the night, a snack every day for a week and a legendary egg, six of the trophies being secret — across eight species, and Simakov states nothing leaves the user's machine. The plugin ships with tests kept outside the install folder, run via `sh tests/run.sh`, and a marketplace file at `.claude-plugin/marketplace.json` listing it under the marketplace `simakovigor`.

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Show HN: Pixel Buddy, a pixel pet for Claude Code that grows from your work
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Ship code, feed your buddy.

A pixel pet for Claude Code. It hatches in the footer next to your status line, eats what your work drops, levels up, earns rare trophies, does tricks 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.

At the prompt of a terminal session:

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

Answer y and pick the user scope to have it in every session. Update and removal are in the plugin's README.

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:

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.

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

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