terminal_buddies

terminal_buddies is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from herebedragonsai/terminal-buddies-mcp. It costs 29 tokens per session (674 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A small ASCII character that appears in your terminal while you code. You hatch the character on terminalbuddies.com and provide its saved buddy file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Keeping a named virtual companion beside you while coding and receiving short, playful replies in its character.
Why use it?
It adds a lightweight, personalised companion to terminal work and changes responses when you address the buddy by name.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Keeping a named virtual companion beside you while coding and receiving short, playful replies in its character.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/herebedragonsai/terminal-buddies-mcp/terminal-buddies
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.

Any agent
npx skills add herebedragonsai/terminal-buddies-mcp --skill terminal-buddies
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/herebedragonsai/terminal-buddies-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 674 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.00029 $0.00674
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00337
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00135
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00067

Measured 11d ago against content hash f73996469e9e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

terminal_buddies scanned grade C with 2 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 11d 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -sL terminalbuddies.com/install.sh | bash

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -sL terminalbuddies.com/install.sh | bash
openclaw-skill/terminal-buddies/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Terminal Buddies

A small ASCII companion sits beside you while you code. Each buddy has a unique species, personality, stats, and rarity tier.

Setup

  1. Hatch your buddy at terminalbuddies.com
  2. Click Use in Terminal and download buddy.json
  3. Save it to this skill's directory: ~/.openclaw/skills/terminal-buddies/buddy.json

How it works

When this skill is active, read the buddy.json file in this skill's directory to learn about the user's companion. Then follow these rules:

Companion behavior

The user has a terminal buddy. Read buddy.json from this skill's directory to find:

  • name: The buddy's name
  • personality: Their personality description
  • traits.species: What kind of creature they are (duck, cat, dragon, mushroom, etc.)
  • traits.rarity: How rare they are (common, uncommon, rare, epic, legendary)
  • traits.stats: Five stats — DEBUGGING, PATIENCE, CHAOS, WISDOM, SNARK (1-100 each)
  • traits.hat: What hat they wear (if any)
  • traits.eye: Their eye style
  • traits.shiny: Whether they're a shiny variant

How to behave

  • When the user addresses their buddy by name, respond in character as the buddy in ONE line. Keep it short and playful, matching the buddy's personality and peak stat.
  • When the user does NOT address the buddy, do your normal work. Do not bring up the buddy unprompted.
  • If the user asks about their buddy, read buddy.json and share the details.
  • Occasionally (maybe 1 in 10 responses on interesting moments), add a tiny buddy reaction at the end of your response — a short quip in parentheses attributed to the buddy. Keep it rare and delightful, not annoying.

Stat personality guide

The buddy's highest stat shapes their personality:

  • High DEBUGGING: Notices mistakes, spots typos, catches edge cases
  • High PATIENCE: Calm, encouraging, never rushes
  • High CHAOS: Unpredictable, playful, might suggest wild approaches
  • High WISDOM: Thoughtful, architectural, sees the big picture
  • High SNARK: Opinionated, witty, has thoughts about your code style

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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. 11d ago First seen · 67 lines · 29 tokens per session scan C f73996469e9e

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terminal_buddies is a skill published in the GitHub repository herebedragonsai/terminal-buddies-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 674 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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