Buddy Thread

Field Journal · Field Journal series 4 entries

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04 parts
  1. 01 / 04

    Asking for /buddy in the VSCode Extension

    A field note on opening issue #45087 — the VSCode native extension ships Quorum, the CLI ships /buddy, and the gap between them costs a workflow seam. Asking for parity, or at least a setting.
  2. 02 / 04

    When Buddy Vanished — Issue #45596 and the Community’s Plea

    A field note on issue #45596 — one day after my own narrower parity ask, /buddy was removed from Claude Code v2.1.97 and the community filed a consolidating plea. This post anchors the buddy thread that runs from the parity ask through Fathom Lives and Reading Hatch Pet.
  3. 03 / 04

    Fathom Lives: I Rehatched My Old Desktop Buddy With a Codex Skill

    A small story about losing a /buddy slash command, finding a Hatch Pet skill in the Plugins tab, and what 22 minutes of generation taught me about agentic UX.
  4. 04 / 04

    Reading Hatch Pet — 14 patterns from a well-designed Codex skill

    Fourteen patterns from a small, complete Codex skill: identity locks, subagent boundaries, provenance, no-fallback gates, and deterministic packaging.