buddy-help

buddy-help is a command for Claude Code from cukas/claudes-ai-buddies. It costs 11 tokens per session (1,497 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference command for an AI Buddies plugin, which lets Claude ask other AI systems for ideas, reviews, debates, or competing solutions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to request code reviews, compare implementations, run multi-AI discussions, or examine assumptions from opposing viewpoints.
Why use it?
It provides additional opinions when you want a second review, broader brainstorming, or challenges to an approach.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Codex; built for aider; mentions Gemini CLI.

Part of the claudes-ai-buddies plugin — 12 skills, 1 command, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to request code reviews, compare implementations, run multi-AI discussions, or examine assumptions from opposing viewpoints.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/cukas/claudes-ai-buddies/buddy-help
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cukas/claudes-ai-buddies

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claudes-ai-buddies, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 1 command, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 11 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,497 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00011 $0.01497
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00749
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00299
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00150

Measured 9d ago against content hash 3fda196ec9e4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

buddy-help scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

commands/buddy-help.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI Buddies v3.1 — Help & Reference

Available Skills

Skill Engine Description
/codex "prompt" Codex Ask Codex anything — brainstorm, delegate, second opinion
/codex-review Codex Code review via Codex (uncommitted, branch, commit)
/gemini "prompt" Gemini Ask Gemini anything — brainstorm, delegate, second opinion
/gemini-review Gemini Code review via Gemini (uncommitted, branch, commit)
/opencode "prompt" OpenCode Ask OpenCode anything — multi-provider, configurable model
/opencode-review OpenCode Code review via OpenCode (uncommitted, branch, commit)
/brainstorm "topic" All Multi-AI roundtable — all available buddies assess the task
/forge "task" --fitness "cmd" All Competitive build — buddies build, automated scoring picks winner
/tribunal "question" 2+ Adversarial debate — FOR vs AGAINST with evidence
/tribunal --socratic 2+ Socratic — probe assumptions, Claude synthesizes
/tribunal --steelman 2+ Steelman — argue other side's strongest case
/tribunal --red-team 2+ Red-team — attack from multiple angles
/tribunal --synthesis 2+ Synthesis — propose solutions, then hybridize
/tribunal --postmortem 2+ Postmortem — investigate failure from different angles
/leaderboard Show ELO ratings leaderboard
/add-buddy Register a new AI CLI as a buddy
/buddy-help This help reference

Dynamic Buddy Registry (v3)

Any CLI-based AI tool can become a buddy. Builtin buddies (Claude, Codex, Gemini, OpenCode) are auto-detected. Register custom buddies with /add-buddy:

/add-buddy --id aider --binary aider --display "Aider" --modes exec

Buddy definitions are stored as JSON:

  • Builtin: <plugin>/buddies/builtin/*.json
  • User: ~/.claudes-ai-buddies/buddies/*.json

Configuration

Config file: ~/.claudes-ai-buddies/config.json

General

Key Default Description
timeout 120 Max seconds per call
sandbox full-auto Sandbox mode (full-auto or suggest)
debug false Enable debug logging

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 145 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 3fda196ec9e4

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buddy-help is a command published in the GitHub repository cukas/claudes-ai-buddies (9 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 1,497 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.