help

A help skill that explains the buddy-evolution Claude Code plugin, its commands, progress system, and stored data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn the available commands, inspect achievements and journals, and understand how session activity becomes experience and stats.
Why use it?
It gives you a quick reference for how the plugin tracks coding sessions and where it keeps the results.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/frankfmy/buddy-evolution/help
Any agent
npx skills add FrankFMY/buddy-evolution --skill help
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FrankFMY/buddy-evolution

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 610 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00046 $0.00610
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00305
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00061

Measured 2d ago against content hash a1b4cc8df556, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 2d 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.

skills/help/SKILL.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Buddy Evolution — Help

What is this?

buddy-evolution is a Claude Code plugin that turns your coding sessions into a progression system. Every session earns XP, grows your stats, and can unlock achievements. Your companion buddy tracks everything across all your projects.

Commands

Command What it does
/buddy-evolution:stats Show level, XP, stats, streak
/buddy-evolution:achievements Show earned, in-progress, locked achievements
/buddy-evolution:journal Show recent session history
/buddy-evolution:help This help page

How it works

  1. Session Start: Your buddy greets you with current stats and streak
  2. During Session: You code normally — the plugin doesn't interfere
  3. Session End: The plugin reads your session transcript and extracts metrics:
    • Tool calls (total, by type)
    • File edits (Write/Edit operations)
    • Test runs (detected from Bash commands)
    • Session duration
  4. Progression: Metrics are converted to XP, stats grow, achievements are checked
  5. Journal: A session summary is appended to your monthly journal

Progression

  • XP Sources: Tool calls (5 XP), file edits (15 XP), test runs (30 XP), duration bonus (20 per 10 min), session completion (200 XP flat)
  • Streak: Consecutive days multiply XP (1.0x → 2.0x over 11 days)
  • Levels: 1-20, with evolution tiers at levels 5, 10, 15, 20
  • Stats: DEBUGGING, PATIENCE, CHAOS, WISDOM, SNARK — grow from your activity patterns with diminishing returns

Achievements

34 achievements across 6 categories (Coding, Testing, Debugging, Consistency, Exploration, Meta). Includes 2 hidden achievements for discovery. Use /buddy-evolution:achievements to see them all.

Data Location

All data is stored locally at ~/.buddy-evolution/:

  • soul.json — Your companion's state (identity, stats, achievements, progression)
  • journal/ — Monthly session logs (YYYY-MM.md files)

No data is sent anywhere. Everything stays on your machine.

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 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. 2d ago First seen · 55 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A a1b4cc8df556

Subscribe to this mod's changes

help is a skill published in the GitHub repository FrankFMY/buddy-evolution (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 610 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.