v0.12.1

• The buddy comes back sooner. If Claude Code stalls for more than a second and drops the buddy's drawing, the buddy now comes back in 15 seconds instead of a minute
• Also when it dies right away. A drawing that never answered after it started, for example on a busy machine, is started again too. It tries three times at most, and /buddy debug says when it gave up

Update: /plugin, Installed, pixel-buddy, Update now. Open sessions get it after /reload-plugins.

v0.12.0

• Русский. The buddy speaks English or Russian: its lines, 100 facts, the menu, the card, trophies and help. Pick the language when you install, with a right click → settings, or in /config (Language · Язык)
• A simpler menu. Right click shows card, buddies, trophies, share and settings. Language, theme, facts and hide moved under settings
• Feed left the menu. Your work feeds the buddy, a click on a snack hands it over, and /buddy feed still gives a berry

Buddies you hatched before stay as they were. English stays the default.

Update: /plugin, Installed, pixel-buddy, Update now. Open sessions get it after /reload-plugins.

v0.11.1

• The buddy comes back by itself. If Claude Code froze for more than a second, it could unload the buddy's drawing and leave an error in the footer until a restart. Now the buddy notices it has gone quiet and comes back in about a minute. A sleeping laptop or a buddy hidden with /buddy off doesn't count as quiet. /buddy debug says how many times it came back
• A line about a star at the bottom of the card. If your buddy made you smile, a ⭐ on GitHub helps other people find it

Update: /plugin, Installed, pixel-buddy, Update now. Open sessions get it after /reload-plugins.

v0.11.0

• One buddy of each species. A random egg hatches a species you don't have yet. Asking for one you have (/buddy hatch cat, or a ✓ in the species menu) calls that buddy back from the nest instead of hatching a second one. With all eight in the nest, the egg waits
• Facts you actually see. The first one comes half a minute into a long answer, then one every two minutes, and each part stays twice as long. facts in the menu still turns them off

Buddies you hatched before keep their place in the nest, nothing is removed.

Update: /plugin, Installed, pixel-buddy, Update now. Open sessions get it after /reload-plugins.

v0.10.2

The buddy looks right in the Claude desktop app now.

• The bubble is plain text on a soft fill, without the line frame that broke apart in the app
• A happy or loving bounce moves the buddy by whole rows, so no gaps open between its pixel rows
• When the buddy fades out, it melts away pixel by pixel instead of turning into a dark shape on the app's gray panel
• Crumbs keep the snack's color while they fly and then vanish, in the terminal too, so they no longer leave dark squares on a light background

Update: /plugin, Installed, pixel-buddy, Update now. Open sessions get it after /reload-plugins.

v0.10.1

Two fixes for how the buddy looks.

• In the Claude desktop app the band is drawn in the monospaced face, so the buddy, its bubble and the menu keep their columns instead of drifting apart
• A double click no longer leaves the bubble behind on top of the buddy where it lands. The bubble waits out the jump, and the buddy says "wheee!" once it's down

Update: /plugin, Installed, pixel-buddy, Update now. Open sessions get it after /reload-plugins.

Pixel Buddy 0.10.0

• Facts while you wait. On a long answer the buddy tells a fact about space, Earth, code, math or philosophy, about one every three minutes, never while you type. A hundred of them, each once before any repeats
• facts in the menu turns them on or off, /buddy fact asks for one now, /buddy facts on and /buddy facts off from the prompt
• A line longer than the room next to the buddy slides along to its end instead of being cut with an ellipsis
• Subagents are counted from the list of running agents, without a hook on their start. The README says what each hook does
• Install in three steps in the README

Install: /plugin install pixel-buddy --marketplace SimakovIgor/pixel-buddy
Update: /plugin, Installed, pixel-buddy, Update now

Pixel Buddy 0.9.1

What it does now:

• Claude answers, it gets a cookie. Tests pass, it gets a fish. A commit or a finished plan, a cake
• Snacks give xp, xp gives levels. It also has a belly, love and a mood, and tells you what helps
• Keep up to 12 buddies in your nest, every window keeps its own
• 14 trophies with fireworks, 6 of them are secret. /buddy trophies opens your trophy case
• share copies a card of your buddy drawn in emoji squares, paste it into any chat
• Works in the terminal and in the Code tab of the desktop app

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

Already have it: /plugin, Installed, pixel-buddy, Update now